LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Fred_Paris · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:22 pm Subject:

I'm in too

for the registration to the marathon my french club will deal with mine

Lt me know as soon you need to get paid Smile

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

Will book everything on monday and let you know.
At the moment we have
Firm
Erika,
Fred
Cat
Alex

Tentative:
Tim

If anyone want to drive a second car, I'll forward all mydetails for the bookings.
Alex

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

that our hotel:
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I have one double bed and one tripple bed booked. (EUR 106)

and this are the details for the crossing (£36)
7.5.2005 11:15 Dover / Boulogne SpeedOne 7.5.2005 13:05
8.5.2005 21:00 Boulogne / Dover SpeedOne 8.5.2005 20:50
ooops Just checked the email confirmtion and Erika is down as MR... sorry =)

I whish we could use the tunnel but they want £153 for that pleasure!

There is one provisional place left unless Tim confirm.

Alex

Erika · Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 386 Location: Lambeth/New Cross

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

Due to a mistake from the booking agency, we only have 2 double bed rooms instead of one double and one triple. So no more space is available....

grrrr what the point of online booking if they call you back two weeks later to tell you one of the room is not available.
Alex

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

We are on, Cat, Erika and me are in the race.
Erika you should have (or will) recieved a confirmation email.

Erika · Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 386 Location: Lambeth/New Cross

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

Ok Quick reminder that Lille is next week end.

I want to leave my place at 8h15 on the saturday.

It is possible to sleep over on the friday night. If you are interested, you can do the FNS the friday and I will drive you fron central London to my place.
Let me know if you are interested.

Alex

Natasha · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2973 Location: Basingstoke

Bonne chance for Dimanche!

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

Good Luck you guys... have a great race.
see you next week

Hans · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:25 pm Subject:

Good luck and happy hunting Wink

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5913

Yep I'll be thinking about you and the Dusseldorf crowd while I wait for my 15:00 start in Hannover.

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

Xia · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 874 Location: Geneva (Suisse)

Hey everyone,
This was my first race of the year and felt good. While only a 30km race, the french have a different view of what open race is compare to mine =) with everyone on speeds boots and skinsuits!

With two categories (Elite and Open) racing at different time, the number were quite small: 180 in the open.
Weather wise, it was mostly sunny, fresh and slightly windy. The race was 10 loops of a 3.11 km in town circuit. The winner won in 55 minutes.

My race just went fine, as usual, I couldn't settle within a pace line, due to my lack of training but manage to stay with someone else for 7 laps. I finished in around 1h18 (results not online yet) in position 122.

Cat started slowly but steady and manage a good 9 lap in 1h29 and she was ill the previous day, not bad for someone who doens't skate that much.

Erika will hopefully come later on to tell her one story, but lets say that she experienced first and the joy of new skates and blisters and did 9 laps in 1h27 then went on for an unoficial 10th lap.

Fred was racing with the elite, and decided to transform his race in a time trial as he did the full marathon on his own without ever drafting. No times or result yet as we left before all the elite time were printed.

More details on times and positions once everything is online.
People from Dusseldorf, over to you....
Alex