Across America, Cado 4x100, Love's More Soon, Begg Kiwi Sports Awards, FIC Nimes

Across America: While some of us freeze in Canada or people are nice and warm somewhere else other than Canada, Danny Dannels in continuing his epic trek across America. Check out his blog- the latest entry called Update from the Wife
- 'Hello everyone! Danny has asked me to update the blog for him while he skates. We are currently just outside of Mobile, AL, getting ready to cross through. Danny decided this morning, after our break, that it would be easiest if he skated across this area solo. That has also given me the chance to find an internet connection to update the blog, and get some cleaning done (laundry mostly).

We have been in no man's land for the past few days, hence the lack of updates. We haven't had much of an internet connection. Danny will be writing full updates soon, I hope. I just wanted to let everyone know that we are still out here, skating hard. We should be across Alabama by the end of the day, depepnding on how much Danny feels he can put his body through today.

Hillary'.

Cado 4x100: Roller En Ligne has a review of the Cado Motus 4x100mm frames.


Love's More Soon: Andrew Love is in Europe, ready to skate the Master World Championships.He posted an update on his site called more soon.... He posted a video called Marty In Erfurt- it's got great skating shots- and I love how Andrew Love shouts 'Marty, you're beautiful!'. The rink is soooo nice-


Begg Kiwi Sports Awards: This is pretty cool; Nicole Begg makes the top 4 at Kiwi sports awards- make sure that you check out the video here- you'll see her in front of what looks like a very nice castle of some sorts and you'll get to see a few skating clips placed in the video.


Nicole Begg- photo from Bont
FIC Nimes: The French Inline Cup in Nimes- Nimes En Roller- will take place on April 13th.

Meanwhile, I suspect on April 13th, most of us Canadians will still be burried in snow and in some sort of deep freeze so severe that elementary schools don't let the students outside for recess to play. That happens. Seriously. It was so cold today that the school I work at would not let the students outside to play.

IP Skate Review, More Spring Fling Pics, ASSB (Arndt, Begg, UFO, Ecoroll)

IP Skate Review: One of my articles has just been put up on the Inline Planet- check it out; Rollerblade Crossfire 8.0 and Activa 8.0.

More Spring Fling Pics: The rest of the gang of the 2008 Spring Fling pictures by Mark Virtue are now up- have fun browsing through the many photos!


2008 Spring Fling- standard medium race- photo by Mark Virtue

2008 Spring Fling- standard short race- photo by Mark Virtue

2008 Spring Fling- standard short race- photo by Mark Virtue
ASSB (Arndt, Begg, UFO, Ecoroll): Andrew's Speed Skating Blog's latest entry covers a lot of interesting topics- I think the title says it all; Nicole Begg goes Bodypainting? DoubleA is Subaru-Xtech! UFO sightings at X-Race!? Ecoroll Cup next weekend....

Happy Birthday Aaron Arndt, Phillip's Father's War, 2008 Spring Fling Pics, Francesco Zangarini Interview, Loy In Kuopio, Quarter Life

Happy Birthday Aaron Arndt: Happy birthday to you Aaron Arndt.

Phillip's Father's War: The following is non-skating-

I suggest you read My Father's War by Mississauga's Phillip Morris.

Here are a few of my thoughts after I read My Father's War- maybe they don't make sense...

You think you know someone.

Maybe it's a friend or a family member.

Then, for some reason, you experience a shift in your relationship with that person. Maybe you read something they wrote. Maybe time that you spend with that person changes you... or changes them. Maybe things outside of your relationship with that person change- and in turn alter the nature of your relationship.

Things change, and afterwards, you think you know that person a little bit better.

We all have our layers; our depths that we sometimes share with others. Secrets that may eventually come out when they're ready to come out, maybe when it's too late or when it's too early or at just the right time.

I have my depths-

The following text is from Phillip Morris' writing called My Father's War. The piece was published in the Gazette on June 2nd 2007- '...My father never glorified war. He said that a lot of young men died for nothing. He never encouraged anyone to go to war to solve their problems.

On Remembrance Day, just before he died, my brother and I dressed Dad in his blue blazer, medals and beret and sat him in front of the television. His mind occupied by morphine and approaching death, he didn’t pay attention. Then the bugler played Last Post. In a desperate voice, he whispered 'get me up.' He never spoke again'.

2008 Spring Fling Pics: Beautiful pictures by Mark Virtue; 2008 Spring Fling, Skateland, Bremerton Washington. Some of the albums aren't working for me at this time, but I hope they work for you.


2008 Spring Fling Novice short race- photo by Mark Virtue

2008 Spring Fling 2 mix relay- photo by Mark Virtue

2008 Spring Fling 4 person relay- photo by Mark Virtue

2008 Spring Fling 4 person relay- photo by Mark Virtue

2008 Spring Fling- photo by Mark Virtue
Francesco Zangarini Interview: Click here for an interview (in French) with Italy's Francesco Zangarini.

Loy In Kuopio: Roller En Ligne has an article about Trisant Loy's 3rd place finish in Kuopio, Finland from a few days ago.

You can find all the results here and the final Essent Grand Prix standings here.

You can view a video of the race here. The video is 30-minutes long and opens with a great bird's eye view of skaters.


Quarter Life: I've been a fan of Quarter Life since December. The site features many different things including an online show- two episodes are released each week. Quarter Life is making its network television debut on NBC at this moment. Good stuff :)

More On RSO #2, A.S.CO. Skating, Love: PB's & Beard & Masters, Cornering, ING Speed Skating Challenge: Round 2, South-West German Indoor Champs

More On RSO #2: Jacky Shu put a file together tracking RSO Indoor Speed Series times over the last couple of seasons.

Check out Candy Wong's comments on her improvements at yersterday's RSO Indoor Series #2- Okay, That's More Like It.

A.S.CO. Skating: Here's a site for you to explore; A.S.CO. Skating. Amongst other things on the site, you'll find pictures from the Italian Indoor Championships- have fun browsing through the photos (I know I linked to them a few days ago).

Love: PB's & Beard & Masters: Three entries from Andrew Love's website Zen And The Art Of Speed Skating; in PB’s + Germany!, he writes '...I can’t control how anyone else races, just myself.

Travel across the world to race other people, and just find a mirror staring back at you...'.

In Beard Poll, you can vote and decide on his beardedness. Finally, Masters in Calgary contains nice images & commentary from the Masters international Canadian open in Calgary.


'Just in case you didn’t know this, it’s a good tip! Ha!!'- photo & caption from Andrew Love
Cornering: Roller En Ligne has a new tip/ article about pushing in the corner. It's en Francais, but check it out; there's a video.

FICHE A4 : phase de propulsion en virage
Uploaded by teamrollerenligne

ING Speed Skating Challenge: Round 2: Only 4 entries left; some of the ING Speed Skating Challenge videos have been cut and others have moved on to round 2- make sure you vote for Canada's best speed skating story.

South-West German Indoor Champs: From Powerslide, Racing, News, Core, Matter's news; 'Last weekend the south-west german indoor championships took place in Darmstadt. On the very slippery 162m track with high corners were some really fast and exciting races. With Martin Matyk and Felix Rijhnen Powerslide PHUZION had 2 guys at the start who ruled the whole competion! They were first and second in every single event and won also the relay.

The dominating wheel was Matter XG EMT 110mm!'.

Okay, okay, check out the track on the video Hessische Hallenmeisterschaft 2008- how awesome is that??!

RSO Series #2, Weekend Results, Race On Base Pics, Great ESkate From Above, REL Stuff, Mundo Reports

RSO Series #2: The RSO Indoor Speed Series took place earlier today at the Scooter's Roller Palace in Mississauga. Use the following links for all the results; 300-meters, 500-meters, 1000-meters, and stage 2 rankings. Wanna see my pictures? Click here.

Aaron Arndt talked about today's RSO (and many other things) in Study Sunday- here's the relay program skaters did at the practice after the race; '(5×1lap)+(1×2laps)+(1×3laps)+(1×4laps)+(1×5laps)+(1×4laps)+(1×3laps)+(1×2laps)+(5×1lap)+(3×2laps)+(1×3laps)+(3×2laps)+(5×1lap)'- what's amazing is that Aaron told the program once. Everyone was confused except for Mister Pauley who recited the entire work-out word for word. Impressive.


Andrew Hegarty was the trusty lap counter- and he did relatively few mistakes. Notice the poor little feller's broken wrist? It hapenned at practce last Monday- he wrote a very clever entry on his website, but his site recently succumbed to a virus...

Jay Brown and Wayne Burrett timed the skaters

Ericka Melin, Jake Maas, and Alex Maas

Cleaning wheels really helps skaters maintain traction in the corners

Keep moving

Gillian Clarke and Deb Melin kept scores

Aaron Arndt was the referee

Schankel's Jesse Pauley is surrounded by the Toronto Inline guys including Mister Pauley and Morgane Williams. Meanwhile, Mister Pauley is surrounded by the Schankel guys including Jesse Pauley and Travis Shaw

Group 3- Ericka Melin, Candy Wong, and Alex Maas leading

Group 2- looks like Eric Maas false started

Group 2- Jacky Shu leads Shannon Hegarty, Eric Maas, Sarah Hopkins, and Ed Leung

Weekend Results: For all of the weekend long track results, make sure you stop by and browse through SpeedSkatingResults.

The long track junior world championships are now compelte with the team time trials. Check out all the results here. You can find some photos (mostly of Netherlands people) here.

Click here for the results from the Finland Ice Marathon 100k.


Canada's Justine L'Heureux from St-Tite- remember my entry about the Festival Western de St-Tite? That's where she's from
The Essent ISU long track world cup finale is now over. You can check out all the final results here. Speed Skating Canada has a few articles- Golden pursuit for Canadian women at World Cup final, Kristina Groves of Ottawa wins World Cup season title, and Jeremy Wotherspoon wins 500-metre clinches World Cup title. You can find some nice photos from Sunday's racing action thanks to Meijco. I hope that DESG puts up some day 3 photos.


Anni Friesinger- photo from Meijco

François Olivier Roberge in his 1000-meters- photo from Meijco

Shani Davis- photo from Meijco

Justin Warsylewicz, Denny Morrison, and Arne Dankers in the team time trial- photo from Meijco
Racing action at the Copa Internacional Salvemos todos a Bolivar is now over- you can browse through all the who's who results here. Here's a couple of articles for you; Nelson Garzón vuelve a ganar en la Copa Internacional Salvemos todos a Bolívar and Rosero y Jardines en lo más alto. Patin Carrera's got quite a few photo albums- check them out; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.


Cartagena- Men's marathon- photo from Patin Carrera
Race On Base Pics: Click here for some Race On Base pictures.


Race on the Base- photo from Blues Haven

Race on the Base- photo from Blues Haven

Race on the Base- photo from Blues Haven

Race on the Base- photo from Blues Haven

Race on the Base- photo from Blues Haven
Great ESkate From Above: This is a really cool video that a friend sent me; Great eSkate 2008 from high up- lots of skaters going across the bridge.

REL Stuff: Here's some Sunday night reading material for you from Roller En Ligne; EO Skate Frame test and 2008 World Inline Cup rule changes.


Mundo Reports: Mundo Patin's got a couple of new reports up, and they're loaded with photos- check out Asturiana League #2 (see the photos) and School Race #3 (see the photos).


Asturiana League #2- photo from Mundo Patin

Who's That?, Weekend Results, RRC: I Agree, Coaching Ethics, Tips, Pics- Italy & Roanoke, Vlaamse Champs

Who's That?: Check out ASSB's Subaru XTech's 'Ace Card'. I wonder who they're talking about...

Speaking of wondering who they're talking about, check out Aaron Arndt's latest website entries Memorable Quotes 6: and Campaign 2- he is starting to give a little bit of a historical perspective on races.


'on the topic of ‘96 JWC, here is a pic from one of the distance races:... in front of me are two Chileans and an Argentinean, beside is a French skater, and behind an Australian... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I was just talking to Ruben Martinez... He says that’s him!!! ahahahahahahaahahahahaha!!! how awesome is that?? :)'- photo & caption from Aaron Arndt
Weekend Results: There are three 'big' competitions taking place this weekend-

Let's kick it off with the world junior long track championships- results from day 2 can be found here thanks to DESG- just in case you're confused, use the links in blue.

Long track world cup results from today are all up- check them out. SSWOM has some reading material for you; Bob and Carl, H'veen World Cup Final 5000m men, H'veen World Cup Final 1500m ladies, Timmer on the false start, H'veen World Cup Final 500m men (2), and H'veen World Cup Final 500m ladies (2).

Meijco.nl has a whole bunch of pictures from today's racing. DESG also has lots (355) of photos from day 2-
- All distances
- 500m men
- 500m ladies
- 1500m ladies
- 5000m men
- All other images
- Unknown faces


Shuang Zhang- photo from Meijco.nl

Kyou Hyuk Lee- photo from Meijco.nl

Kristina Groves- photo from Meijco.nl

Holland fans- photo from DESB

Judith Hesse- photo from DESB

Mika Poutala- photo from DESB

World Cup- photo from DESB
The final event that I am reporting on is the the Copa Internacional Salvemos todos a Bolívar- check out Patin Carrera's latest update called Yercy Puello y Andrés Muñóz son los reyes de la velocidad en Cartagena.. Make sure you check out all the results from the competition.

RRC: I Agree: The the people at Road Rash Chronicles, I agree with this entry; Ants in our pants.; you'll see that there's quite a few 'I can't wait 's'.

Another entry on the side today is called Indoor Recap- you'll find a bunch of pictures.


Hugh 'Hot Dog' Xie- photo from Road Rash Chronicles
Coaching Ethics: I just thought I'd being the thread Coaching Ethics to your attention- it's been getting quite a few comments- lots of thoughts and ideas.

Tips: Here are a few tips for you; the Inline Planet has this one written by Barry Publow- How to Handle a High Speed Descent on Inline Skates.

Here are a couple of articles posted on London Skaters;
- How to bend your knees on skates
- Muscle Memory and Skating

Pics- Italy & Roanoke: Pattinaggio Bellusco has got more pictures from the Italian Indoor Championships- A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H- I don't really understand Italian, but I think 'Per un totale di 4064 fotografie!' means for a total of 4064 pictures.


Italian Indoor Championships- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

Italian Indoor Championships- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

Italian Indoor Championships- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

Italian Indoor Championships- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco
Check out Kevin Osborne's pictures from Roanoke. I can't even begin to count how many pictures there are. They're still loading at a furious rate as I type this.


Roanoke- photo from Kevin Osborne

Roanoke- photo from Kevin Osborne

Roanoke- photo from Kevin Osborne
Vlaamse Champs: Skating Sisters has some coverage of the Vlaamse Short Track Championships- click here for the results, click here for a photo gallery, and see the Skating Sisters photos (237 photos).


Vlaams Kampioenschap- photo from SkateFoto.be

See the skate in the air? Vlaams Kampioenschap- photo from SkateFoto.be

Vlaams Kampioenschap- photo from SkateFoto.be