A dyslexic theme prevailed at this year’s race. It all started with Jay “Thunder” Jackson’s unusual booth at the expo. He was pawning bass akwards duct tape repairs for everything from boots to frames and more. He even offered to fix Andy Uttke’s clavicle shards with some bizarre contraption made up of tape, frames, a [...]
The Friday night 340 meter sprint started on the dry side of approaching thunderstorms. All skaters strapped on their copper helmets for a little extra juice from the lightening and dished out static electricity shocks. Herb squeaked like a little girl when Jason Mann gave him a little zap. Then the horn went off at [...]
If you look closely through the pictures of the Summer Inline Series this week, Dan Collins was rivaling Elton John for most costume changes in one night.
Thanks for making us smile Dan.
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Two North Korean mechanical engineers have made an amazing superconductive magnetic breakthrough that will render bearings obsolete for inline skaters. Mechanical engineers Kim Bo-shat and Tota Ree-yokng of the University of Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang have discovered an anomaly in magnetic conductivity that eliminates the need for the ball bearing as we know it today.
Everything [...]
The Roll for the Roses was a mad-dash sprint to the oval and then an abrupt and cautious final 350 meters on the moist concrete around the oval. Danny Fartlek took first at 16:35:10 and Twiggs and Meyer were close behind with 16:36:10 and 16:387:10, respectively. Kara Peterson hydroplaned across the finish with [...]
The Apostle Islands Inline Marathon course has the gentlest, smoothest strip of bitumen in any race anyone has ever seen. It was better than Big Granite, almost as if all the hills had been ironed out of it like wrinkles steamed out of one of Steve Zweber’s crusty moldy old shirts. There wasn’t a single [...]