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London Inline Marathon, 6th August 2006
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SprintMaster



Joined: 19 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:31 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
For me it was the most difficult marathon I did so far. I had a slow start due to the skates I did on friday and saturday evening.  Confused But after a few laps I got into my rhythm and had a constant race. In the last laps I could turn up my speed and just finished into the first 20.  Smile Funny is that I did 5 laps in exactly 4 minutes.  Rolling Eyes
Thanks to the organisers and volunteers, it was a great day.  Cool


Greetz,
Thijs
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Hilt



Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: London, SW7
PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:32 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
As a first timer doing the marathon I was shocked (so many hills) impressed (so many people helping) and really tired at the end (so many miles).

All my appreciation to those that made it possible.
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BigSteev



Joined: 04 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:14 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
I'm up for helping next year (dates dependent) and I'll try to get some of the best images up tonight on Flickr and post a link.
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fzurro



Joined: 09 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:16 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
I don't live too far Rick so I can help out on the Fri/Sat before the Marathon next year ...
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BigSteev



Joined: 04 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:23 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
A selection of photos now up here
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Etienne



Joined: 24 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:14 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
Excellent !
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Rick



Joined: 25 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:45 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
Nice piccies, Steev. I see Matt Price hawking for the line when he should have taken two more strides. Probably cost him £120 as Hans pipped him by about a skate length. The finish is uphill so you need to lunge for the line of your last stride in a tight finish or you lose a lot of speed.
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BigSteev



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:49 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
I can get you a full set on DVD if you like - for promoting next year's race or whatever.
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Rick



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:26 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
Cheers. They would be great just to update the LIM website with stuff that actually happend there, since we don't actually have any skating photos on the LIM site. Be nice to put a few on the LSST site redesign that's happening at some point in the nearly distant future.
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merten



Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:18 am    Subject: Reply with quote
Well we made it back home safe and sound yesterday evening. Thanks to everybody for putting up another great event on this mean circuit. I think we can now safely decommission it, with the last winner ever being LSST member Wink well done to Hans.

Also thanks for the Sat "stroll" - definitely not a good race preparation, but a great time out - please try to put this in again next year!

I'll put pics in the Gallery at some point, might take a bit though.
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KarineM



Joined: 27 Sep 2005
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Location: Paris (No longer Lille)
PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:03 am    Subject: Hard! Reply with quote
Thanks to the London team for the friendly organisation. It was nice meeting up with some of the London skaters that I met in Lille.

Thanks to Ray and Helen for looking after my mum  Embarassed

It was hard, hard, hard, but I managed to finish my first marathon. (Thanks to the organisers for letting the really slow skaters finish   Rolling Eyes  )

In France I only ever get to do the 30km Open races, and the extra 12km and the hills is a real killer)

Karine
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Rick



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:45 am    Subject: Reply with quote
Well done for finishing. Picking LIM as your first full marathon and completing it is a great achievement. It puts quite a few people off doing more but if you can do LIM at Lee Valley then you can do just about any race going and you have an easy target to beat your personal best.

I think we got the time limit perfect this year. Everyone that wanted to finish did so. Cut off was last lap started by 3h15m last finisher was 3h15m31s to complete the whole thing.
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Hans
Former British Record Holder


Joined: 20 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:21 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
Fred has put up a very nice report for our French friends

http://www.rollerenligne.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4940
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dan_b



Joined: 15 Jun 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:38 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
I'm being entertained by the discussion on the Bont forum.

http://p196.ezboard.com/fbontskatesfrm2.showMessageRange?topicID=2318.topic&start=475&stop=495
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Fred_Paris
LSST Chairman


Joined: 11 Mar 2005
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Location: Ealing Broadway
PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:51 pm    Subject: Reply with quote
Rick wrote:

Anyone who would like to contribute in any way to next year's organisation then we would like to hear from you as soon as possible. Of course it depends on the date but if you tell us in priciple that you would like to help if you can then we can contact you nearer the time.


I wanted to contribute to this year event but unfortunately I didn't. But for next year I'd like to help with the organisation of the event.

Thank you to all the people who helped to make this event such a great success.

Last year I said I will try to bring some french skaters to participate, we had a few this time but fortunately more will come next time.


About the race now Smile

For my first LIM I have to say I wasn't disapointed it was exactly as I was told Smile

I wasn't in a great shape on the day, so I wasn't really looking forward to the event.

It's been tough, fortunately the race wasn't too fast…in fact I don't know, for the day it was enough and I barely manage to do what had to be done. And My skates were almost not painfull ^^, the perfect day really Smile

So far it's my best race this year

Eventually I will miss Lee Lalley ^^

So far the comments I had on the LIM are great, good organisation, nice spirit, the time limit was also much appreciated.

Well done everybody !
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