LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Fred_Paris · Last edited by Fred_Paris on Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:49 pm; edited 12 times in total

Below is a list of dates for which the club will run training sessions at Tatem Park for the month of January and February 2011. I thought I'd give you all the dates so that you can get organize and plan ahead.

This is open to club members, if you are not a member you are welcome to join for a couple of session to try.

For the upcoming two months focus will be on technique training and endurance skating, the aim is to improve as well as building the foundation of your fitness for the coming season.

9th of January - [off skate due to ice on the track]
16th of January - [on skate session] wet track
23rd of January - [on skate session] wet track
30th of January - [on skate session] dry track
6th of Febuary - [on skate session] dry track Windy !
13th of Febuary - Rained Off - Cancelled
20th of Febuary - [on skate session] wet track
27th of Febuary - [On Skate session] dry track Windy!

Winter training is very important, for that reason we will not cancel training unless we face extreme weather conditions, so always assume training is on. Tatem park has the advantage of being quite grippy in the wet. To help plan the sessions, it will be helpful if you could let us know whether or not you are attending during the week leading up to the session.

The session will start at 10 am sharp, so please make sure you arrive on time so that the session can start without delay.

Any questions please ask !

[Edit]
I will be updating the post every sunday morning at 8:15 in case of a last minute cancellation, if you don't hear anything the session is on !

I will also delete the previous week post to accomodate mobile phone users avoiding the thread to go over 1 or 2 pages

Fred_Paris · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:25 am Subject:

Last session of February ! I will post the next series on Sunday.

In the mean time, it's time to register your interest for this Sunday's session.

ed! · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:51 am Subject:

Me. Cycling up if anyone wants to tag along.

EdP · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 481

I'm in (unless I'm horribly hungover)

ralomo · Joined: 30 Aug 2009 Posts: 118

I'm in.

Cat · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 200

we'll be there

Fred_Paris · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:04 pm Subject:

Forecast is sunny interval, see you all tomorrow at training. Razz

Adrian · Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 908 Location: Tatem Park

Sorry - looks like I'm not going to be able to make it there tomorrow... Sad

Torbaydos · Joined: 30 Jun 2009 Posts: 73 Location: Ealing

I'm there. first ever time. I am expecting a rosette

ed! · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:03 pm Subject:

Torbaydos · Joined: 30 Jun 2009 Posts: 73 Location: Ealing

Fred_Paris · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:15 am Subject:

weather is looking great, see you all there Smile

ed! · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:03 pm Subject:

Thank you Fred.

Thank you Harry.

Ouch! Zzzzz....

Glenn · Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1109 Location: ST Pauls

Yes, thanks, that was quite a tough start to the day.

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Fred_Paris · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:28 pm Subject:

Hi Everybody,

I thought I would give you guys a short summary of these last two months sessions ran at Tatem, it has been great and we have been quite lucky with the weather too, the track has been wet most of the time, but grippy enough for our sessions, as we move into spring hopefully we can maintain the sessions going.

Off skate sessions :
We only had one of those, but most people really enjoyed it, Off skate drills and exercises are great to improve your strengh and technique, so it is a good idea to include in your training routine.

Technique training
We are now done with working on drills in our training session at Tatm the focus is now going to be more on endurance and improve your ability to skate in a pack and make the most of it. During the winter the drills have been helpful I believe and it's been great to see how much you have improved. Technique is not completely gone as the indoor session will remian focused on technique.

Endurance
We have been focusing on skating long period of times during the winter as a basis to the coming season, we started moving to spliting out set of 10/15/20 minutes where you can now work at getting a good pace. we will carry on doing this sort of work in the coming month as we look at slowly increase the pace of each groups.