Silver Strand, Salt Lake City LT World Cup Wrap-Up, KNSB Den Haag, Making Boots, Wilco, Central American School Games

Silver Strand: The Inline Planet has a report on this past weekend's Silver Strand Marathon.

Women
1- Peggy Girgenti
2- Mechele Busby
3- Penny Wright

Men
1- Jake Sawyer
2- Randy Bowman
3- Alex Fedak

Salt Lake City LT World Cup Wrap-Up: Click here for all the final resutls from the first long track world cup of this season. Speedskating Results has a document which includes all sorts of records that were set this weekend. Check it out. You can browse through Speed Skating World Online Magazine for all sorts of updates and commenarty from this weekend.

Now for some beautiful videos of a couple of records- Canada's Jeremy Wotherspoon's 500-meter WR (press play below) and Finland's Pekka Koskela's 1000-meter WR (press play below).

For more videos from NOS which include interviews with the likes of Enrico Fabris who set the 5k WR, click here- you'll have to use the links on the right hand side to access the videos.



Andrew Love posted an entry called World Cup Images. Good stuff from a great writer!


Kip Carpenter- photo from Andrew Love
KNSB Den Haag: Click here for a report from this past weekend's KNSB Cup in Den Haag.


Arjan Stroetinga (right) on his way to victory in the men's race- photo from Skate Podium
If you'd like to see the women's race, click here or use the window below-


Finally, for the men's A race, click here or use the controls below-


Making Boots: Roller En Ligne has a short piece that talks about how Renard Inline uses a foot specialist to help make custom boots- see Renard-inline collabore avec une podologue.


Wilco: I've been a fan of Wilco for a while. Check out this video with a nice gutiar solo that gets better at the end. If you're looking for an amazing song by Wilco, try to find the song Misunderstood. There's a great live version floating around the internet.


Actually, now that I seached a bit, here's a live version of Misunderstood thanks to YouTube- the best part of the song is at about the 4-minute mark. Can you count how many nothings Jeff Tweedy sings?


Central American School Games: Click here for a report (in Spanish) of the Central American School Games. If you're too lazy to run the article through translation software, you can see the medal table.