Design Canada, Matthew Whitty's 2008 A2A, IP Articles, Beautiful Ice Video, Lots Of Blog News, Canadian ST Juniors

Design Canada: This is a really competition; Design Canada- 'In collaboration with Roller Sports Canada, Il Peloton is proud to announce a contest to design two skinsuits, one for the Canadian National Team and for one for Canadians skating abroad. This is a unique opportunity to show your artistic skills. Using a blank Skinsuit template, you have until January 14th to send us your design. People will then vote for their favourite design. Before sending any designs please read the contest rules'.

Andrew Hegarty has already submitted his design- see 2008 Skinsuits. I went to skating practice tonight and I tried to convince Andrew to show me his design but he refused. He thinks I will steal his design and submit it in his place.

The fine folks at Road Rash Chronicles also have a reaction to the project- see Fate? Project Inline.

Matthew Whitty's 2008 A2A: Here is some Matthew Whitty news for you. He is Matthew planning on skate 87 miles of Athens to Atlanta to build a village and school in Nicaragua- 'Matthew Whitty was unable to skate the A2A event on October 7, 2007 do to a stress fracture in his foot... Matthew is starting to train again and will be more then ready to compete in the A2A next year on October 12, 2008'.

IP Articles: The Inline Planet has a couple of articles of interest, including the latest Bill Begg column called Pronating Pros! ... What's Up? and a health and fitness article called 20 Tips for Active Aging.

Beautiful Ice Video: Skate Podium has a video in the dump section that I can only describe using the words 'Het eerste natuurijs van dit jaar met Geert en Gerco ontmaagd'- the ice is beautiful!


Lots Of Blog News: Many of the internet blogs have seen interesting updates go up in the last few days. There is plenty of good reading and many diverse perspectives for speed skating fans to immerse themselves in as we head into the winter holidays.

Aaron Arndt's site has seen a few posts in the last few days. Check out hmmmmm…. email response string and Wait a minute, maybe I am an asshole....

Andrew Love's website Zen And The Art Of Speed Skating has a few recent entries as well. See Outdoor Tough Guys about the Dimon Sports Marathon and All things excellent–.


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Flyin Brian's site has an interesting entry with a video of a man doing squats. Here's the SSW challenge; try to calculate how much weight the guy is squatting- see Tapering & High Altitude training & Best Burger in SLC for the video and more.

Michael Cheeks' skating site Cheex Skating Blog has a cool entry called GIMMI, EQUIPMENT, SPONSOR.

Andrew's Speed Skating Blog has a few entries that will give you lots of information on the German skating scene including information on teams- see More News: Täubrecht, Wilking, Cuncu, Rehse... and Rumors.

Canadian ST Juniors: Patinage Vitesse Courte Piste has a picture of the junior team that will represent Canada at the 2008 short track world junior championships.