Kathie Fry: Speed Skating Web LogNews, articles and information about speed skating all over the world. Most entries are about inline speed skating, but ice speed skating and quad speed roller skating are also covered.Silver Strand Half Marathon in California- March 9, 2004 The 2004 Silver Strand Half Marathon will take place in Southern California on Sunday, November 14, 2004 in the city of San Diego. The event is open to skaters, runners, walkers, and wheelchair riders. On race day the registration fee will be $50 but you can pay only $30 if you sign up now Read Full Articlehttp://www.skatelog.com/countries/us/ca/san-diego/silver-strand-2004.htm So You Want to Skate a Marathon- March 8, 2004 This article at Skating.com was written for first-time marathon skaters by Zephyr Adventures owner Allan Wright Read Full Article at Skating.comhttp://www.skating.com/articles/?Aid=2003011834 Happy Birthday Stijn van Hove- March 7, 2004 Today is the birthday of Belgian national champion inline speed skater Stijn van Hove of the Zwaantjes Roller Club in Zandvoorde, Belgium. The ZRC is one of the oldest speed roller skating clubs in the world and most of the events at the 2002 World Championships took place on their track Read Full Articlehttp://www.skatelog.com/skaters/stijn-van-hove/ Happy Birthday Dane Lewis and Ryan Cox- March 7, 2004 Top USA speed skaters Dane Lewis and Ryan Cox share a birthday with Stijn van Hove today. A warm greeting and best wishes to Ryan and Dane, and Ryan we hope you are recovering nicely and very quickly from your recent injury (I wish somebody would send me some photos of Dane and Ryan for my Web site... hint hint...) Dane Lewis Photo at Verducci Racing Ryan Cox Injury Update at GT Speedhttp://www.skatelog.com/skaters/birthdays03.htm Aaron Arndt of Canada- March 7, 2004 Yesterday I had the long awaited pleasure of meeting Canadian inline speed skating champion Aaron Arndt in Santa Monica, California where he was coaching at one of Barry Publow's weekend speed skating workshops More Photos of Aaronhttp://www.skatelog.com/skaters/aaron-arndt/ California Town Moves Skating Into the Streets- March 5, 2004 The town council of Eureka, California introduced a law this week that will allow roller skaters, skateboarders, and scooter riders to share city streets with automobile and bicycle traffic in order to make the sidewalks safer for pedestrians Times-Standard Articlehttp://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~1995735,00.html Travel Planner for the 2004 Speed Worlds in Italy- March 5, 2004 The 2004 Inline Speed Skating World Championships will take place in the region of Abruzzo Italy between September 2 and September 11, 2004. The actual competition will run from September 3 through September 11 with no events scheduled on September 7. There will also be an International conference on August 28 and since I'm not sure what that event is, I am trying to find out more about it. Here is the information I have collected so far to help competitors and spectators plan their...http://www.skatelog.com/worlds/speed/2004 Barry Publow Workshop in Los Angeles This Weekend- March 2, 2004 Two pieces of news for skaters in the Greater Los Angeles area: (1) I just found out that Canadian speed coach and author of "Speed on Skates" Barry Publow will conduct a speed skating workshop in Southern California this weekend. It's not too late to sign up! For more information visit Barry's Web Site and contact L.A. host smiller04comcast.net. (2) More news for Los Angeles skaters: The Derby Dolls, L.A.'s own all-girl roller derby team, might be on the channel 7 news tonight at 11:00 pm.http://www.breakawayskate.com/skate/clinics/index2.html Are Slideboards Useless- March 1, 2004 Alexander Bont says slideboards, heartrate monitors, and several other popular training aids are useless. Read what skaters have to say about Alex's comments in the Bont Skates Forumhttp://pub42.ezboard.com/fbontskatesfrm2.showMessage?topicID=488.topic Photos of Constructing a New Banked Track- March 1, 2004 Photos of the construction of a new banked track in Aarhus, Denmark in 2003 (from Team Aarhus) View Photoshttp://www.aarhus1900.dk/skaters/motion/galleri/2003/banen/index.htm |