This blog is brought to you by the guy below who wants to ask you a very important question:
Why aren't you skating?
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Useful Sites:
Washington Area Roadskaters
DC Skate Patrol (Free Lessons)
Rollerquest (Baltimore Skaters)
Skaters Quest (a Skate School)
Skaters Refuge (Community Store)
Sites I Like:
Mocha Superman
Blake Lambert
Sites With People I Miss:
Wednesday Night Skate New York
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Why aren't you blogging??? At some point with doing this blog, I came up with an informal set of rules, one of which was to never write anything negative. It produced a big delay on my blogging as I sorted out what I was capable of saying about WAR, the Washington Area Roadskaters as a club, both positive and negative. I enjoyed discovering the club. I enjoyed joining and contributing my time and resources as a board member. It was great fun promoting the club and rebuilding the membership records from scratch. I also enjoyed leaving the club. It was very liberating. Now I can go skate and not have to worry about making all the people who kept placing their demands on me happy. My free time is finally my own again. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2003
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Manhattan Skating Photos |
ere are some photos from Andrew's and Agnieszka's skate along the Manhattan waterfront.
e all had fun skating with Przemek and Anna.
ope to be in New York again soon!
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If You Want a Driver Who Speaks English |
f Chinatown to Chinatown travel between New York and DC while watching Chinese movies is not your cup of (green) tea, there are several non ethnic bus lines that provide the same low cost travel.
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The End of an Era |
he Wednesday Night Skate in New York has gone through some big changes recently. One day in particular marked the abrupt end of the event as I knew it. Find out what happened and what future it faces.
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DC to NYC Travel on the Cheap |
he Big Apple Roll in New York is scheduled for Friday, September 5th through Sunday, September 7th, 2003. It will be a great weekend of skating and hanging out in one of the best places for skaters in the world -- Manhattan. If you have a limited budget, or just don't want to spend a lot to get there, you might want to travel on a Chinese bus line. Here's how.....
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Przemek's 30th Birthday |
t's all downhill after 30. For Polish Peter it was both uphill and downhill when he visited us in DC for some skating!
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Rock Creek After Isabel |
ock Creek Parkway was closed the day after hurricane Isabel ripped through -- and DC residents had a look around.
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Wednesday Night Skate DC |
ou have to respect a group that designs beer related t shirts and stops half way through a skate for a brew.
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Our Multi Trail Odyssey |
ere are some photos from our trip to the East Falls Church Metro stop along a whole bunch of trails.
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e managed to cover the following trails on our trip to the East Falls Church Metro stop:
Mount Vernon Trail
Four Mile Run
Washington and Old Dominion Trail
I-66/Custis Trail
Fri, 05 Sep 2003
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What Trail Was That Again? |
etting to the beginning of the Washington and Old Dominion Trail from DC involves navigating a whole bunch of others, including the Four Mile Run Trail. Find out about our experience in skating this route.
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Anna's Polish Restaraunt |
n Labor Day Weekend we skated to Brooklyn and had a fantastic dinner in a tiny restaurant..
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Union Square to Coney Island |
his is a popular route with plenty of variations. Find out how it turns out when a bunch of lazy skaters attempt it without a map.
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Adventures with a New Skater |
he Rock Creek Parkway is closed to cars on the weekends and a great place to skate -- this is what Agnieszka and I have heard. We really tried to get there!
ur trip to Rock Creek Park took an odd turn....
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Chutes and Ladders along I-66 |
he Custis Trail runs parallel to I-66 between the Key Bridge and Falls Church. It is a great route to skate but be prepared to leave some of your braking rubber behind -- it has a lot of hills.
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Speedskaters in Poznan |
found a web site about some speedskaters in Poznan. Parts of it haven't been updated in a while, but it contains some interesting information -- regarding me!
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Guide to the Poznan Marathon Web Site |
oland's largest organized marathon event for runners welcomes skaters to participate. Unfortunately their web site does not do the event justice. Here is an attempt to organize some of the most useful information for skaters in English.
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Here it is! |
inally, SkateBlog goes live. Here is the requisite introduction along with some comments about the effort.
he hardest part of putting this site together was organizing the framework. Now that that's done, actually doing the posts are easy. So, please enjoy my PhotoShop experiments with the logo and all the other Macintosh silliness along with the text.
la bla bla. Go check it out and don't be surprised if you find it a bit changed around periodically.