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Yes Philly has a Strong Skate Crowd

In reply to A2A 2007 - My Toes are Still Bruised:

Hey. The email list for Philly is landskaters and they're on yahoogroups.com. There may be more recent setups of course, meetup or facebook or whatever, but for a semi-private email based one, yahoogroups is not bad. The Philly Freedom Skate and later iterations have been great fun, and I'll be back when I have the bucks.

Your city's skating scene

In reply to A2A 2007 - My Toes are Still Bruised:

Your city's skating scene sounds great - is this still going on? Maybe I could take a long weekend there, both skating and dragon boating....

A bit Old but I am sure Great Tips for A2A

In reply to Athens to Atlanta A2A Skate Strategy Guide:

A bit Old but I am sure Great Tips for A2A Thanks for sharing. I'll be doing the 52m A2A this year
GustavoAMH

Location, location, location

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

Hey that's some good skatin'. Which greenway are you using and what's it like, how long, where, all that? If you'd like to share, we'd like to know. Have any good skate places to tell us about? I'm glad to hear you're getting out there. Come skate Country Park with us sometime in Greensboro. We're trying to get out on Tuesday evenings now, followed by some pizza nearby to make sure we don't lose too much weight and make skating too easy.

In Particular?

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

Cool! Are you training for a particular event?

I've been getting in about

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

I've been getting in about 40 miles per week for the past few weeks. 10-11 miles of interval hill climb and downhill on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and then about 20 miles of flat greenway skating on Saturday mornings. Going to kick it up to 24 this Saturday. Tuesday and Thursday speeds are about 11mph and Saturdays avg about 14mph.

Gels

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

Well between my 11 year old car needing life-saving surgery and my 18 year old daughter graduating high school, I managed to stay off my skates for a whole week following Tour de Lions, so no, I didn't get to test them in skates. And unless I try some heat-molding pronto, I will probably have the opportunity to roadtest them soon!

Thanks for the ISI work, Roadskater (injury scene investigation), and thanks again Jonathan for the gels.

Glacier Gels at REI

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

Those came from REI, and yes they are in a packet, I think about 6 or 8 in a package along with some alcohol wipes, for about 6-8 bucks. I'm glad they worked so well for you eebee. Did you try skating in them? That is something I have not tried, so I don't know if they would stay on in a boot, but for normal shoes they do last a long time.
So if someone asked you how you figured all that out roadskater, I assume your response is, "It's elementary, my dear eebee, elementary".

Glacier Gel

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Archeological evidence often consists of the trash of the dwellers, one assumes, and such was the case for the mystery of the cool gel bandage of which eebee spoke. Some digging at the skate hovel reskating (recycling) and trash facilities (the living room trash can) yielded Glacier Gel Blister and Burn Dressings wrappers. They seemed to be part of a packaged safety kit as the wrapper bore the logo of Adventure Medical Kits. Some text from the package refers to the item as a "hydrogel." The usual caution for diabetics to check with their doctor before using is present as well. Packaging was in English and French only.

Hope this helps, and maybe eebee can give us a full review in a new topic someday (or not, no worries).

Jonathan's Blister Pads

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Those blister pads Jonathan gave me after Tour de Lions worked miracles. I kept them on for 3 days and by that time they were all healed. I can't remember the name of the band-aid though. And you're right, they did provide instant relief! I'm gonna have to get some.

Now I need 2 more for post-graduation-ceremony-attendance impractical shoe blisters :-). My daughter just graduated High School. I feel old.

Gimme More on the Banked Track Clinic!

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Hey Artem, that banked track clinic info was great, and congrats on your showing, but if you ever have time, please tell us more. If you feel up to it, write a new article and name names, and prices, and tell stories, and give us some free technique and strategy pointers. It's OK if you can't of course, but we'd love it if you do. I'm glad to hear you are really pursuing your skating with the passion to match your natural ability.

Band-Aid Natural Healing or Johnson & Johnson or Other?

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I remember you saying that Duoderm was expensive. Any idea how expensive? Also is a hydracolloidal dressing like the old Compeed that became Band-Aid Natural Healing? If you find some less expensive examples of the hydrocolloidals please let us know what and where and how much. Thanks for the info.

Your Training Seems Great

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

From what we saw at Tour de Lions, you were having an extremely easy time of that 44 miles with my slowness for whatever reasons, only partially that cracked hub. I'd say your training has been excellent. Nothing beats obsession, and starting from a good Winter maintenance surely makes a huge difference. I'm still "trying" to get my weight down and fitness up. Are you going to Hartwell by any chance?

You'd Miss the Snow But Love the Warmth Perhaps

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I lived in the mountains of NC and loved it, especially the summers, but the snow too. However, when I got used to the heat in summer, while I missed the mountains and still do, I don't miss the challenges of frozen pipes and icy roads and dirty snow hanging around the edges of the streets. Since I started loving skating so much, it helps that the piedmont is not flat but not switchback mountainous as well. Come on down and skate with us! Hope you've been enjoying the Canadian Spring. I am sure it is beautiful.

Track it to the Bank

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The CO. clinic sounds really great. The race strategy must have been very interesting. Congrats on a fine showing and look forward to hearing how this clinic helps your '09 exploits.

Duoderm replacement

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That is some handy information about the duoderm. Thank you. I was talking to a wound nurse who does all the sterile dressings at our local hospital, and she said you could find hydracolloid dressings at CVS. This is the same thing, but much cheaper than Duoderm she says.

Banked Track Clinic

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Thanks for the write-up, Skart. This sounds like a lot of fun. I think I'd probably be a bit intimidated but I'm sure someone of your skating ability and level of fitness would get a lot out of it. I've seen photos here and there online of this clinic and it looked impressive!

USARS/USOC Banked Track Clinic

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I have just got back from the Spring Banked Track Clinic put on by USARS/USOC in Colorado Springs, CO. This was by far the best learning experience I have ever had on skates. The clinic provides instructions on skating technique, training (dry land), racing strategy, etc. The clinic also serves as a tool to prepare for outdoor nationals and gives participants an opportunity to qualify by skating a 300m sprint and a 5000m race under a certain time. It's neat to know that I am considered somewhat competitive by USARS standards, since I was able to do both distances with time to spare. :-)

The clinic had about 6-8 coaches with mostly current and former World Team Members doing demonstrations and sharing there knowledge. The overall clinic structure, however, has been set and driven by world team coaches.

As I said, this was a great clinic and I would highly recommend anybody who is thinking about improving there technique to attend one in the future.

P.S. Duoderm works even better than Tegaderm :-)

Update from the North

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Last week, when the weather looked promising and warmed up, I put my ski gear away for the season, thinking to hit the road soon. I have not been on skates since last October. Needless to say that I am a little antsy showing some skating withdrawal symptoms. But Mother Nature makes me suffer a little longer, the snow is flying again and temperatures dropped from plus 21 to minus 10 overnight. I often think I should move south…ha

I try to keep in shape by visiting the gym, go to spin and boxing classes and sweat through boot camps.

Silly Title: bDAbBDbAdp

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Roadskater: "Having mentioned the inging above, especially denying and the other stages of grief, my mind runs to the dog I never had I would perhaps have named DABDA. My observations are that the sequence should be denial, bargaining (as bargaining seems just part of denial in this case...bargaining without any money or value to offer), then anger, &c."

In the demise of a relationship, I agree that bargaining is definitely understated in this sequence. In my humble opinion, it should be bargaining-denial-anger-bargaining-bargaining-depression-bargaining-acceptance - and then of course - doggie poop.

six stages

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denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, cleaning up doggie poop

Bill Hader's Dateline NBC skit

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I love Keith Morrison's unique reporting style, but the mere memory of Bill Hader's Dateline NBC skit has me snickering to myself in traffic after a tediously mediocre workday.

Poop, Stages of Death-Grief, Skating 26 miles at Country Park

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On Saturday after sleeping off the work week I called a few local skaters and bikers at the last minute and Jack came out and so did Tim. We met at Greensboro Country Park for laps and it was a fine day, if a bit overpopulated.

I started before either arrived and I'm not sure how many laps each did
but it was a generous amount, as they didn't have to worry over going
fast when I was around.

We talked mostly about Formula 1 auto racing, as we had been following that this week due to the Grand Prix in China. We had seen the qualifying and were pondering whether to stay up for the race at 3 a.m. edt (which we did, and thank you, Ukranian tv for showing it without commercials until the end of the race; at various points I was watching Chinese, French, British, USAmerican and Ukranian streams).

It was a good skate for me in reasonable time, and I was glad I had set a goal because the last two laps were tough enough that I would have quit without the 26.2 goal in mind.

Note to dog owners everywere: I love that there's a bark park and how that has gotten people out to walk, but please, if your pup poops, could you at least get it off of the asphalt (the pile that is)? Of course, so many of you do dog owners are great about it (and thanks for being a great dog owner), this probably annoys you greatly as well.

I know one thing, if a skater pooped in the road like that and didn't clean up afterward, they'd have us banned in no time, ha!

Note 2 to dog owners everywhere: Those long leashes are handy but not actually allowed at Country Park. They're admittedly really neat as long as you are paying total attention to your pupster(s), as so many of you do (and thanks for being a great dog owner). But when you're talking, flirting, phoning, denial-anger-bargaining-depressing-accepting, plotting or most ings other than focusing, the leash can pretty quickly become a danger for your pupster, or less importantly I know, for another person.

Having mentioned the inging above, especially denying and the other stages of grief, my mind runs to the dog I never had I would perhaps have named DABDA. My observations are that the sequence should be denial, bargaining (as bargaining seems just part of denial in this case...bargaining without any money or value to offer), then anger, &c.

Notable also is that with the 48 Hours murder mystery and Dateline spouses gone wrong mode of relationship management, the original theory on accepting death (which is often also applied to any grief or shock like oh you don't love me after all?), some people don't bother with anything after anger, or at least they hope to avoid the rest. Whether they face depression over it or acceptance over it (it being the change of state, not the deed they did to try to fix that state or respond to it), we'll never really know methinks. Now I'm thinking of the Saturday Night Live send-up of the white haired "Oh" dude on Dateline methinks 'tis.

Here's a bit on the five stages and it says the order doesn't matter. Still I like the flipped order and as I think on it DBAAD stages of death is kind of funny ("the bad" sounding like a rapper of death, and a mighty good name for a dogster too).

Her extensive work with the dying led to the book On Death and Dying in 1969. In this work she proposed the now famous Five Stages of Grief as a pattern of phases, most or all of which people tend to go through, not always in sequence, after being faced with the reality of their own impending death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_K%C3%BCbler-Ross

The second link is for an article that takes on the stages and the author. One comment points out that Elisabeth K-R eventually ended up with her own sort of denial of death...

http://www.slate.com/id/2107069/

The stages of death and grief may not hold any more philosophical water than Maslow's hierarchy, but they're good enough for a lot of thinkstarting and overfoodtalking, so thanks Abraham and Elisabeth for your five easy pieces of this or that.

The park was very nice on this day of 26.2 miles, or 16 laps, as you wish. I met a couple of 9-year-old fellows, one with a skateboard and a sad face, with whom I agreed I wished there were a place for him to skate his board there (with a helmet on). I said it didn't seem fair to me but I bet it was because of some accident there where a kid lost his board on a hill and it hurt someone's ankle down the hill...or the fear of that. His pal wanted to wear my skates but I thought they'd not fit so well. He instead stood on my feet with his feet and tried to get me rolling. We didn't fall but didn't roll either. So we sat and talked awhile as his pal illegally skated his board a bit further down the road. It was a nice end to a warm and sunny afternoon.

Not yet on the banjo kit

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I looked at banjo kits but decided to go for one that was ready to play already. Enough projects going already right now, but maybe next time I will. I did go ahead and order a used copy of the Foxfire 3 book, which has about 80 pages in it on building mountain-style banjos.

(Remember those books? I have couple of them sitting on a dusty shelf, but not #3. Nowadays it's really hard to remember that it's "Foxfire" and not "Firefox." And I used this site's amazon.com search box, not that it'll add up to much.)

Re mando projects: Yes, both actually. I made a new bridge for my mandolin last summer because the original broke. And I made a new bone nut for it over the winter because it was murder trying to tune it with the original sticky plastic nut, and with 8 strings mandolins need tuning a lot. I've also been working on a mandolin kit for a new and hopefully much better-sounding instrument since last summer. That's an "hour here, couple of hours there" kind of thing though. So far I'm probably not even halfway there on it.

Here's some googlebait on the banjo for the page:

CC-OT by Gold Tone
Neck	Maple
Fingerboard	Rosewood
Bridge	Maple/Ebony cap compensated
Wood Finish	Antique brown satin finish
Fingerboard Inlay	Star/Dots
Headstock	Inlay Star
Neck Binding	Celluloid
Tuners	Sealed (planets optional)
Tailpiece	No Knot
Tone Ring	Rolled brass
Strings	Medium
Plating	Chrome
Arm Rest	Vega-style
Scale	26 3/16"
Weight	5 Lbs
Nut Width	1 3/16"
Frets	Medium
Total Length	37"
Head Size	Fiberskyn 11"

I wondered when the 5-string fever would win

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

Hey timv. Thanks for sharing your new music maker with us. I knew you were working on a bridge (or was it a nut? or both?) for the mandolin, and had some other woodworking stuff in mind, so I had wondered if you might buy a kit for the 5-stringer. I'm glad you got something to play. A new stringed instrument is good to encourage some playing, and spring is a great time for going out to the park to make some musical noise. Congrats on the newest pet!

Skating Faster

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

Thanks for sharing you skating exploits of late. I think you are right that some of the important sessions are those where you only skate 20-30 minutes. How great that you maintained your skating over the winter. I did not! I'm ok with that mostly, but I combine that with poor eating over the darkest, shortest holidays, when it would be so much better if I kept caloric intake down! Those 20-30 minute days may be when you are learning to skate faster, since you know you don't have to go very long. Mainly it's good to mix up different kinds of skating (and exercise) to reduce boredom and work on different aspects of skating so you'll be ready when it comes up later. Sounds like a great 13 miler you have there...a nice half-marathon. Thanks for sharing.

Haven't skated in a dog's

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Haven't skated in a dog's age, and I've only done one short bike ride in March, so not much to report there.

However I did have this show up at my door yesterday:

http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/60U-2268.htm

For some reason I've been obsessed with having a banjo (more or less having to do with Sufjan Stevens, I seem to recall.) And it seemed that the best way to put that to rest was to just go ahead and get one.

Then it can sit and collect dust like everything else and I'll go back to my ordinary life. :-)

small distances only please!

In reply to Inline Skating 44 Miles on the Silver Comet Trail (Slowly). How About Your Recent Workouts?:

About the most I have been doing as just a skate (not commuting) is 13 miles at a time. I will usually skate down to Winthrop Lake in Rock Hill. It's a 2 mile loop if you go around the coloseum too. The pavement is pretty good, and right now its beautiful with the roads lined in blooming cherry trees. And in another week or two when all the petals drop, it will look like it snowed the ground will be so white with cherry tree blossoms. Ever so often there will be some bikers out there, and if they are really slow I can keep up. :-)
The nice part is I have been skating 2-4 times a week all winter long, just 20-30 min each time, but it appears to have paid off. Last summer before A2A, the fastest I could ever maintain for 1 hour was 12mph. I am currently able to maintain 13mph for a full hour! I am pretty stoked.

Anyone else skating or cycling?

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I'm wanting to read some stories from your days out on the road, if you have any.

Supermodelquin Legs

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It probably wasn't the smartest mileage to jump into with both feet this early in the season. But the Silver Comet Trail is such a sight for sore eyes, it was great to be out there for four whole hours. Overtraining-wise, we probably should have just basked in the sun for one of those hours. However, the point was to be out in the sun to breathe fresh spring air and soak up the sights: families strolling, cyclists racing, helmetless skaters playing roulette with their brains...

A funny-painful moment came about mile 42 when Clarence had joined us. Up a barely discernible incline Roadskater and I told Clarence we had to back off since we were going 'uphill'. Clarence and his fresh legs laughed and said 'This isn't uphill!!', to which Roadskater replied he could use some of those Old Navy legs...like the extra ones in the bin on that hilarious Supermodelquin Old Navy commercial (hint to advertisers: if you make me laugh I'll be more likely to buy your stuff).