A2A Rescheduled, Glenn Koshi & California Fires, Equipment Equipment!, Videos Videos!, Rain Oh Rain

A2A Rescheduled: The 2008 Athens to Atlanta date has been switched to October 5th. You can find an entry form here.

Glenn Koshi & California Fires: 'Just wanted to let everyone know that Glenn Koshi will have limited communication access for the next few days and is under an evacuation notice due to the fires spreading across his area'. Click here for more.


2007 A2A start line

Equipment Equipment!: I've been competing in roller speed skating since 1993. The 14+ years that I've been involved in competing have seen equipment innovations and flops. It's been a very exciting time period to be involved in racing and I can only wonder what the next advancements are.

For now, Roller En Ligne is looking into the near future with a few articles on equipment, including an AM Wing review, a test of Bont's semi-race skate, details on the Diabolik 110mm frames, and an initial assessment of 110mm wheels. I know these articles are in french; if you can't read them, I suggest running them through Babel Fish Translation.



Videos Videos!: Do you have a lot of time to kill and do you want to spend that time watching videos? Are you at work pressed for time and tying to get a peek at what videos are out there? Great! Here's a few that you'll enjoy-

Here's one you'll like; 2007 Racing Hilights- or press play below-


Links to the Défi de L'ile de Montréal on Inline Skating Notebook- there are 8 more videos; click here- below is one of the 8 videos from PolRalos.


72km Roller-Montreal Grand Tour- press below to view.


Old Dog New Tricks or press play below.


Rain Oh Rain: The Inline Planet's latest tip is written by Kim Perkins; see Skating in the Rain.

The Berlin Marathon, which took place in mid-September was contested in rainy and slick conditions. I am sure a lot of people could have used the rain skating tips. What? You want to see a video of the event in the rain? Click here to see for yourself.


Skating in the rain during the relay at the 2006 OutGames in Montreal