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70th position in the Berlin Half Marathon (inline skating)

By Jon on April 6, 2010

I’m absolutely stunned – I finished in 70th position (among the ‘fitness’ skaters – i.e. anyone except the absolute pros) in the Berlin Half Marathon inline skating 10 days ago, with a net time of 47:01. I knew the race had been OK – that time is 1 minute slower than my best time, but it was raining and the corners [...]

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Rhine on Skates

By Jon on August 31, 2009

http://jonworth.eu/trailrunner-skate/trailrunner/DT6C3JL.kml More details and photos to follow, but for now here’s the route. Bit of a GPS error on mine, this is the definitive one – 135.6km.

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Ravel 2, Namur-Tienen, on skates

By Jon on June 20, 2009

No Belgium Rollers this week (due to the European Council in Brussels), so a sortie into the countryside of Wallonia instead – 42km from Namur to Tienen, most of it on Ravel 2 (Ravel is the Walloon network of long distance cycle paths). The route is along an old railway, converted into a cycle path that has [...]

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Brussels Rollers 2 – 26.7km and fast!

By Jon on June 13, 2009

Much better Brussels Rollers tonight – further, faster, better. Speed topped at 46.1km/h on the descent from Montgomery to Woluwe, and the sprint from Montgomery past Mérode and Schuman onto rue de la Loi was almost as quick. I ended up 3rd in the 2 sprints, but won the hill climb. There’s life in the old legs yet. [...]

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Belgium Rollers, Brussels

Belgium Rollers, Brussels

By Jon on June 6, 2009

It was the first Belgium Rollers in Brussels yesterday evening – not a bad start to the season. The website says things start at 1900, in fact it was due to start at 2000, and we finally departed around 2030. The first parts were very slow (the first loop on the map below was at no more [...]

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Painful Montréal Marathon, 1:50

Painful Montréal Marathon, 1:50

By Jon on May 19, 2009

The picture is from lap 8 of Sunday’s Montréal Roller Marathon. Ouch, what a race. First of all, the weather – 6 degrees at the start, and very windy. The race is around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – on an island in the St Lawrence river. Hence little protection from the wind. Secondly, there were only 197 participants, and more than [...]

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46:09, 175th place for the Berlin Half Marathon 2009

By Jon on April 5, 2009

OK, so the first race of the season is behind me – the Berlin Inline Half Marathon took place this morning. My result is here. I managed the 21km in 46 mins 9 seconds, giving an average speed for the race of 27.82km/h. Overall I finished in 175th place of the race as a whole, and 24th [...]

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When a skater, languages and a small child almost collide

When a skater, languages and a small child almost collide

By Jon on February 21, 2009

It was a grey yet dry day in Brussels; time to put my inline skates on for the first time this year and skate more than 24km between Delacroix Metro (line 2, in Brussels) as far as Beersel in Flanders, and back. I had intended to go as far as Hal but my thighs and [...]

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