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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Wheels: Doughnut pass Go Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:23:11 +0000 ==THIS WEEK== On FRIDAY, Lead Marshal Edd is planning a 'Night of the Long Sprints' for those who felt last Friday was on the slow side. We'll be starting gently with a quick tour around town and a couple of small downhills as a warm up, before we recharge at Marylebone. The second half is all about smooth surfaces, long straight stretches, and a few downhills to go with it. We go north to get some height and then down by Little Venice, wending our way around up to Ladbroke Grove for another downhill sprint, then through Notting Hill to drop down Old Church Street. Don't be fooled as we pass Hyde Park Corner. This is not the finish! No - we will be sprinting down to Victoria, pausing around the lovely traffic system, then sprinting along to Westminster, up the Mall then a leisurely few minutes around Trafalgar Square before climbing to the top of Green Park and the last sprint of the night home. http://www.lfns.co.uk/rt.php/20081010 SUNDAY is a doughnut! Oringinally developed by prehistoric Native Americans and recognised by a great American president, it seems we can't escape the torus shaped sweet breads. Because this Sunday Rogina is leading the skate to the land of "three for two" fillings and other special offers. In case you hadn't worked it out yet, we're heading past the British Library for a half time stop at doughnut shops of Euston Square. Roggie will be muttering "Ich bin ein Berliner" and hoping for his just desserts. Whether he gets some or not, the pace will be nice and easy, so it'll be a perfect Sunday Stroll for experienced skaters with hangovers and beginners without. Miss this one? Doughnut even think about it. http://www.lfns.co.uk/rt.php/20081012 No, this doesn't mean you can practice burnouts on the Firebrox. Not unless you're buying new tyres for it afterwards. http://www.modernracer.com/tips/rwddoughnuts.html ==LAST WEEK== Bren did his back in last week, so Sol had to take over as Lead Marshal on FRIDAY. Unfortunately, Bren had said we would be travelling 'at speed' and we all forgot to explain to Sol that Bren's notion of what 'at speed' means is not the same as hers. The result is that the evening passed in a bit of a blur. Turnham Green definitely featured - we noticed it because we stopped there to draw breath. Otherwise we really can't say. There seemed to be rather fewer people at the end than at the start but rumour has it that Becca made it the whole way. Congratulations, Becca! And we hope it started your birthday with a bang. (Not that we're suggesting you were still in a bar at midnight or anything.) SUNDAY saw a return of the meteorological unpleasantness that has ruined so much of what laughingly passed for summer. So no skating for us then. Sorry. ==SUPER SONIC== Those of you who managed to remain within half a mile of the front of Friday's skate (not many did) will have had the privilege of failing to keep up with Sol: a pleasure shared by most of Europe's skaters. Sol featured last week for coming second in the 'Women over 40' category in the Berlin Marathon. It was quite an achievement because German women take their skating seriously. Sol left her native Estonia 15 years ago and took up street skating back in 2002. Estonians appear nuts on skating - the First Lady of Estonia was at Berlin and Sol beat her by 14 minutes! (I wonder if they'll let Sol back in?) In the UK, Sol soon became known as Sonic, because (like the irritating blue hedgehog) all you ever saw of her was a blur streaking past. It was bad enough in those days but she has got steadily faster over the years. She started speed skating two years ago but, despite her increasing commitment to racing, she is still very much part of the street skate scene. Last year she was on the committee that organises (if that's the right word) the Friday and Sunday skates and she still turns out regularly to marshal. Sol's secret double life is as a housewife (her cakes are famous and turn up on the skate from time to time) and mother. Her daughter, Laura, is also a skater and Mini-Sonic occasionally joins us for the Stroll, trying (and usually failing) to slow her mother down. You might want to know that the Estonian for: 'Please slow down; I think I am going to die,' is 'Palun vótke kiirust maha muidu ma suren!' == A WHEELS WELCOME TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS == Thanks to the new subscribers who told us last week that they weren't getting Week on Wheels. We poked around a bit (that's a technical term) and hit things with hammers (that's not a technical term, though it did nothing to help) to explain what went wrong: it starts with CGI timeouts and a lame DNS server, and usually ends with the listener's eyes glazing over. All better now. We'd sack the IT department, if only we had one. ==MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE...== Anybody with nothing better to do on Saturday might find themselves wandering past the Victoria Leisure Centre. Unfortunately, it's not in Victoria, it's in Nottingham. And it's the venue for BattleUK - the biggest slalom event in Britain and a significant competition on the international stage. There is usually a fair contingent of London skaters who turn up to watch or to join in. Best of luck to all those competing and, as for the spectators, don't forget to be back in London in time for the Stroll. Full details are available on Facebook. Somewhere. == EL FINITO == Well, that wraps it up for another week. 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