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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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Wed, 29 Mar 2006
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Wednesday Night Skate Experimental Night Shots |
t's still before the switchover to daylight savings time so we're still skating in the dark on our night skates. It gave me a chance to experiment with taking some shots with my night time friendly digital camera. None of these photos involved using a flash.
t was a warm evening so we had a good eleven or so people show up. That's a nice change from a typical off season cold winter showing of about six skaters. Jubran led us on a great ad hoc skate. I hope I wasn't the person who was supposed to lead.
Check out the gallery...
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The Adams Morgan-Catholic University Route |
ere's a map of the route we took on the Wednesday Night Skate.
lot of skaters have a GPS device with them. At the end of the skate, it gives them information on how far they skated, what their average spped was and such. After I'm done GPSing, I stick it all on the blog.
e meet and start next to the White House. On the map, at the end of the route, you can see the extra portion where we skated to the Froggy Bottom Pub for some post skating nourishment.
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DC Skater Featured in Sports Magazine |
ur very own Susana won national fame when she was featured in the January/February issue of Her Sports Magazine.
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The First Skate of 2006 |
he skate season is about to begin. Rollerquest has started scheduling their skates on their website. The Washington Area Roadskaters will soon have their inaugural skate. But the absolute first skate of the 2006 season happened months ago -- on New Year's day. Here are some photos with dates on them to prove it.
Check out the gallery... Thu, 16 Mar 2006
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A Website in a Day |
put together www.SkateDCWeekend.com on a rainy Saturday in February. In terms of content, I just put down the first thing that popped into my head. The text has improved over time with written feedback from the rest of the organizers.
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Skaters Invited to a Bike Marathon in Maryland |
ere is a long distance event on the Maryland Eastern Shore that sounds like fun as well as a good way to prepare for the A2A. It will be held on June 2nd-4th. You have your choice of several routes and can do up to 140 miles worth of skating across two days.
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Pictures from the Skate with RollerQuest |
perfect storm of three unstoppable forces led to a great turnout for a skate on the BWI Airport Trail. The first was the Maryland based skate club RollerQuest listing the event on their web site's calendar. The second was Bill who gleefully instigated a DC presence by posting on the WAR listserv event announcment mailing list. But what made the positive turnout truly irreversable was the gorgeous spring weather that mother nature blew in just for the occasion.
Check out the gallery... Sat, 11 Mar 2006
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RollerQuest and the BWI Airport Trail |
ollerQuest spends a lot of time on the the 11 mile long BWI Airport Trail. Here is the route I took on the trail and some of my notes -- including how to find the RollerQuest skaters there.
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Free Maryland Bike Map |
f you live or skate in Maryland, this map is worth having. It has information on major trails in the state and an indication of how skateable the major roads are in any given area are. And I found the link where you can order it online.
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Trail Blazers: Volunteering on the B&A and BWI Trails |
f you need a good reason to spend time on the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail or the BWI Trail, you can join the Trail Blazers Program, a volunteer group of about 40 enthusiasts sponsored by Park Rangers in Anne Arundal County.