Remembrance Day, Roller Track Plans, Salt Lake City LT World Cup Day 2- More Records, Skating In Schools

Remembrance Day: Here's to peace- cheers.

Roller Track Plans: Thank you to SpeedSK8rs.com for posting the new standard plans for roller tracks.



Salt Lake City LT World Cup Day 2- More Records: For all the results, click here. Salt Lake City can lay claim to two more long track records after Jeremy Wotherspoon's 500-meter world record on Friday. The records to fall on Satuday include the men's 1000-meter by Finlands' Pekka Koskela and the men's 5000-meter by Italy's Enrico Fabris. And how about this for Canadian results; 1-2 and 4 in the 1500-meter. You can read more about the Canadian's finish in Canada’s Christine Nesbitt earns first career World Cup victory



Christine Nesbitt- photo from Arno Hoogveld
Speed Skating World Online Magazine has some commentary on the 1000m and on the 5k. Make sure you stop by Andrew Love's site to read the post FINLAND!!!!.



Pekka Koskela on his way to the 1000-meter world record in 1:07- photo from Andrew Love
Here's a post with the day 2 schedule and a photo of Erben Wennemars putting up his record time.



Erben Wennemars- photo from NOS
Skating In Schools: Yesterday I linked up to the thread Skating as a school activity . I reread one of the entries and it contains some thoughts and ideas that I had a while ago; Racing Snake 71
writes '...What started out as one or two schools has now manifested itself into quite a few schools across the West Midland county and is now part of the curriculum in some facilities. As a result the Birmingham Wheels club membership has increased 10 fold in just over 12 months - and whilst many do it just for fun a large majority of these have turned to speed skating. The other bonus it has brought with it is that parents have also come on board in their droves and have pulled together to make the Birmingham Wheels facility as class in its own in the UK.

With so many new members the club was in obvious need of some equipment, especially as the areas initially concentrated on were inner city urban areas where personal funds were difficult to find. On the back of the success of the coaching in schools the Birmingham Wheels club secured an £8,000 lottery grant known as Awards For All and are now in a position to help its newest members with this much needed equipment...and I think I'm right in saying that Joe Yuen (Bont in Hong Kong) is helping us with this...'.

MundoPatin has a report on a school race (Trofeo de Escolares 2007). Click here for the photos.



Trofeo de Escolares 2007- photo from MundoPatin