LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Ray · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 806 Location: Dagenham

OK see you at Eastway then - a Cycle Club Event is on there until 1 pm so no point arriving before then!

Ray · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 806 Location: Dagenham

Good session at Eastway with Janina and Robert from Berlin.

Great to be on the Eastway hills again - had almost forgotten how much fun they are Wink

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5915

Hillingdon was a good laugh this morning. We had 13 people there and did some relaying practice as well as laying down a few laps. I skated there and back to my place with Quentin. It's a lot faster than driving. Got the trip down to about 12-13 minutes.

Nice to see so many Hillingdon virgins there. I thin the place get a unanimous thumbs up compared to Eastway except for the incovenience of getting there.

Quentin · Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 240

My legs stoped working

ed! · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:37 am Subject:

Mine are nearly there and I didn't do as much as you did Confused

Thanks to Gav, Hans and Rick for encouraging the relay change drills - they were really useful and great to combine with doing the laps around Hillingdon. It was nice to see so many people there Smile

This morning is the first time in a long time where I have felt tiredness in my legs - obviously I've not been pushing myself hard enough, but I can already see that these coming sessions is going to be testing!

tanya g · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:49 am Subject:

loved it and if I'm about this weekend going again

fzurro · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 796 Location: Middlesex

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

Gutted, you guys sound like you had so much fun! Sometimes it's a real bummer having a wrong-way-round work schedule.

dan_b · Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 2428

Nice track (though the uphill is hard work with a headwind and no draft). Good motivation to work on right crossovers, too.

It'll be interesting to see what the effect on lap times is of doing more than one lap at once: here's hoping that being able to skate along the fast bit (instead of doing a relay changeover there) will push times down a bit

[ edit: gps speed/time graph here:
4 of my laps, plus special guest appearance by Gav. Slightly despiked but only by enough to get a moderately sensible scale on the y axis ]

ed! · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:22 pm Subject:

dan_b · Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 2428

Heh. For the avoidance of doubt, what you see there is one lap on, one lap off, one lap on, one lap off, two laps on (Craig wasn't ready to relay when I came around after the first lap), some time spent standing around discussing who was leaving when, then Gav's lap at the end

_gj3000_ · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:49 am Subject:

What's it looking like for Tatem tonight?

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

I'm guessing that because it's still pretty wet out there that there is no training at Tatem tonight.

Gav · Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:02 pm Subject:

yup, see this weeks topic.