LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4070

Can I steal your pretty graph for an article on LS.com?

Michi · Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 652 Location: Hamburg

roger · Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 528

AndrewH · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 7

Berlin was my first, but definitely not last, marathon! Romped (for me!) in at 1hr44 but hoping to make some serious inroads into that for next year.

Fantastic experience and definitely want to find out more about joining up, training sessions and 2006 events calendar.

Also my current blades will have to go and would appreciate any suggestions on what to consider. Am a regular WNS and FNS and would ideally like something that would comfortabl do both if possible, or am I better sticking with one set for social and one for serious?

Suggestions gratefully appreciated!

Andrew

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4070

Hi Andrew, welcome, and definitely sign up! That's an astonishingly good first marathon time, well done.

I skate almost exclusively on my Bont speedskates, so you can, but equally you don't have to if you don't want to.

AlastairJ · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:02 pm Subject:

Gav, that's a very interesting graph

Smile

Amar · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:16 pm Subject:

Gav · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:25 pm Subject:

Well no not necessarily... inline and marathons have only been around for less than a decade, so it's not like that base has moved up from the 20-30 age band. I reckon most of them have started at that age, as will continue to be the trend in the future.

Amar · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:41 pm Subject:

good point, gav! hadn't thought about it from that perspective.

Gav · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:27 pm Subject:

Amazing that I have any perspective today. My friend from cape town is here and we were out drinking until 3:30. I think I sobered up about 2 hours ago.

Where's that Foo section Smile

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

Anne-Jelmer · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:56 am Subject:

Finaly able to log on again. My PC at work remembered my password Confused

An amazing fast marathon. And Roger that provided the Rotterdam Marathon deja vu.

roger · Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 528

Finally the results from the double starters have been posted

http://www.scc-events.com/_domains/www.scc-events.com/events/berlin_marathon/pdf/2005_doppelstarter.pdf

Its amazing really that there were 164 people whe completed both events.

My result - 49th out of 142 men - is better than I expected when I entered. Now I have to start training to get into the top 25 next year Smile

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5888

Well to state the obvious, you need to work on your running to climb the table as you aren't going to make it up in the skating. You were the slowest runner in the top 60, which shows how good your skating is. Lose an hour off the running and you'ld be around the top 10.

BTW only 8 people with the same birth year or earlier beat you and 30 behind you which means you beat 63 people younger than you. Not sure what that means exactly but it sounds like you did really well. I think you did really well to even think of doing it let alone complete so to finish up there is amazing.

Incidentally the guy who came second here was in the front paceline of the skate finishing a few seconds behind the winner and he is my age. Now I feel really unfit.

greazer · Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 330 Location: Haarlem

Congrats Roger, and big respect!!!