LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

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

Aim for 6.30pm, but I can't get there until around 7pm. So most people start their warm up before I get there so they are ready to get going by the time I arrive.

As the nights are getting shorter, we will be limited to how much time we have skating before it gets dark.

Hope to see you later......

tanya g · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:55 am Subject:

i m might try ang get there for about 6 as we are losing light fast

Duracell · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:41 pm Subject:

dan_b · Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 2428

Velorution.biz will rent them if you phone/email/visit: £40/day with electric assist (which, sadly, they didn't have) or £35 without. Granted that you can get more in an Escort van, but you can't park an escort van on the pavement directly outside (either of my) flat(s)

I reckon it weighs as much unloaded as a fully laden music bike, though. And that's before I filled it full of books

tanya g · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:31 pm Subject:

Nice session, feel like my skates are part of me again. Just need to work on skate fitness now! we weren't going that hard but i was feeling it towards the end of each session.

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

Another really helpful session, thanks Adrian and Gav.

Look forward to the Sunday winter sessions - let's hope we're lucky with the weather.

G

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

Aiming to go to Tatem tonight if others are going. Gav, Matt - still aiming to go?

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4108

I see you're a month early for once Glenn!!

Gav · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:11 pm Subject:

Yes, plan to be there as early as possible today!

Gav · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:04 pm Subject:

Correction - due to having to head to a client this afternoon I won't be able to make it to Tatem.

I am probably going to head down to Hyde Park for a gentle skate after 6:30 instead.

_gj3000_ · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:15 pm Subject:

richmond tomorrow?

_gj3000_ · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:53 am Subject:

Sorry not to see anyone else at Richmond this am. Got clipped by a cyclist again today. Was on a straight flat section and had been at a fixed speed, stroke length and stroke cadence for ages, and yet the guy, who was on his own (a Dynamo rider) managed to hit my outside foot. No excuses really.

Others decide to pass very close in a pack, three abreast, forcing you to stop skating (again from Dynamo - not saying they are bad in particular, this is just perhaps because they are the most represented there on a weekend)

It can get annoying. if I change my skating at all, particularly from just gliding to stroking I always look behind, and yet people still seem not to give me any room. Having said that I had no problems with any of the car drivers, all very considerate today.