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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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Mon, 30 May 2005
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Skate T-Shirts Seen Over Memorial Day Weekend |
uest photogropher Peter Lux focuses on cotton and coolmax.
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Pictures from the Monday Morning Hangover Skate |
led skaters on a relaxed pace skate and have the photos to prove it.
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Some High Resolution Photos from the Memorial Day Weekend |
mail me if you want a hi-res copy of any other photos from the Memorial Day Skate.
Check out the gallery... Sun, 29 May 2005
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Pictures from the Sunday Afternoon Accidental Tourist Skate |
mily led skaters to Adams Morgan, the garden at the Smithsonian Castle and let skaters pick the tourist stops of their choice.
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Photos from the Sunday Morning Skate to Old Town Alexandria |
katers quietly thundered their way past a parade of motorcyclists and rolled on to Crystal City, and Old Town Alexandria. Led by Andrew "it's not a deathmarch -- we have ice cream" Baxley.
Check out the gallery... Sat, 28 May 2005
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Pictures from the Saturday Evening Fast Skate |
arshall led an intrepid crew of skaters uptown and eventually to the Froggy Bottom Pub..
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Trainspotting on the Memorial Day Weekend Skate |
nd they told us that trains never go by on those tracks...
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Pictures from the Saturday Morning Alley Cat Skate |
arl Ford avoided the regular tourist traps and exposed Memorial Day Weekend skaters to the hidden and often trashy underbelly of our nations Capitol.
Check out the gallery... Fri, 27 May 2005
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Photos from Friday Night of the Memorial Day Weekend Skate |
ike bikers of a bygone era, veteran and beginner skaters alike took over the streets of DC.
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The Examinier is Treats WAR Well for Memorial Day |
ot only does The Examiner put WAR's weekly skating events on their sports calendar, we get a special mention for our Memorial Day Weekend event.
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Something is Amiss at the IMF/World Bank |
s of 10am, somewhere around 18th and G Streets NW there is a fire. Word on the street is that an underground transformer is burning. The third floor vew we have at work of the NW corner of 18th and G is of smoke coming out of the building there. Streets are closed, the police and secret service are out and none of them are happy. You can hear the sound of fire engines and ambulances and a bunch of them are stopped nearby. There is also a sound like big dump trucks rattling as they go by -- maybe that's the sound of the burning transformer? The air has a burnt electrical component smell.
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Pictures from the Sunday Morning No Hills Skate |
t was a pleasant intermediate skate through northeast and southeast DC while a certain couple did some house hunting.
Check out the gallery... Sat, 21 May 2005
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A New Mascot for the Washington Area Roadskaters? |
have been scouring the internet and painstakingly working on only the best graphic designs on behalf of WAR. Here is one of the results of my monumental efforts.
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Photos from the Wednesday Night Star Wars Skate |
estinations included the Uptown Cinema where fans were waiting for the Star Wars Episode IV premier.
Check out the gallery... Wed, 18 May 2005
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Another Skate, Another Blowout |
o if you ever wondered what would happen to your wheels if you skated on them for a few years to the point where they became little nubs, wonder no more. Three of mine broke during a long skate a few weeks back. I swapped them out for good wheels but kept one on that looked ok. No joy. It just blew out last night. Sometiems being cheap doesn't pay.
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Skaters at Hains Point |
took a trip out to Hains Point to visit the speedskaters. I found something I didn't expect out there.
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Some Skate Patrol Photos |
he first few photos are from the Skate Patrol recertification get together. The later photos are of the well attended free braking clinics in Rock Creek Park.
Check out the gallery... Sat, 14 May 2005
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Pictures from the Friday Night Where's the Skate Patrol? Skate |
e started without them, but the Skate Patrollers eventually caught up to us and led the Friday Night Skate.
Check out the gallery... Thu, 12 May 2005
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Photos from the Wednesday Night Trail Skate |
estinations included Georgetown near the Waterfront and the Capital Crescent Trail.
Check out the gallery... Wed, 04 May 2005
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The Evil Seven Eleven in Cleveland Park |
t's terrible. They won't let you in on skates. And it's only the Cleveland Park Seven Eleven. Other Seven Elevens have no problems with skaters. But I was there (flyering the Lemming Route) and wanted a Diet Coke. So I used the iPod I can't hear you strategy.
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Photos from the Sunday Wrong Side of the Tracks Skate |
estinations included the DC side of the Anacostia Waterfront (we went under the Sousa Bridge) and the Stadium.
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