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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 12 hours ago
    Roadskater.net Jersey, Carolina Century, more

    The jersey price is not set yet, and the project is a few weeks from starting up, but we'll put the word out here and on APRR and other email groups like InlineNC yahoogroup. 

    Carolina Century is after A2A and we'll have a date set on that soon. We'll put the word out here and at CarolinaCentury.com. 

    Yes that's right about bearings. Some say 40 miles does the trick. The other trick is to clean them and get all the original lube and replace with one of your favorite formulae (we have tried lots o'stuff, and that might be a good article if we haven't already writ one). 

    Oh yes thanks for the cred and linkback! And thanks for letting us KNOW about someone who read and viewed and has gotten something from the work of many friends on this site. 

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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 16 hours ago
    Not quite there yet

    Sadly, due to illness, I'm even more behind than usual this year, and even though I feel sure I will be back up to speed (or rather distance) a month or two from now, I don't even think I could do 30 miles right now :-(. However, if we know when you'll be out there we can perhaps join you for some of the miles. And 8-10mph sounds great for me right now too. 

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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 1 day ago
    Other events...

    Yeah I am getting the bug again to skate for sport!  No I haven't met Jimmy yet. God worked out the details in advance.  Yes on my first post I gave Road Skater props! and put a link back to your page.  Seriously, I am so glad I found your blog and was able to read all the post about the comet and study the pictures. 

     

    Other Events?  When is Carolina Century?  That would be something to think about.How much is the roadskater jersey shirt?

     

    As you know I am looking for a job in Social Work, so it may take me out of state. However, A2A is in the back of my mind. I thought the Texas Road Rash looks like a good skate for my current level of skating also.  Of course I don't have a way to these events at this time... But, I enjoy the lower body workout that inline skating has given me.  Meaning that I now keep ice packs on hand.  I really never understood why inline skating fell to the wayside in the fitness world.  I wasn't wearing a heart rate monitor, but I can tell you that my heart rate was way up yesterday and during the 50 miles. I probably ate 3,000 calories that day just to keep my body going from all the calories burned.

     

    Just in case there are others out there new to skating. Make sure you give time to break in new bearings. My old skates had good bearings and I don't have time to break in the new ones so I switched them out.

     

    speaking of work. I better get out and do some yard work before it gets up to 90's.

     

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  • Reply to: Seems Like Inline Skating Aligns the Electrons in My Brain: Study Shows Benefits of Aerobic Exercise   2 weeks 1 day ago
    Yeah It Has Been a Late Start for Many Due to Illness...Me Too

    This week is the first week of anything like training. I was busy with a project in January and beyond. As soon as that was mostly finished, I got a series of colds or sinus infections or whatever you want to call them. When I would go anywhere public and stress myself, including a 21-mile skate on the American Tobacco Trail (cough cough), the next day the germs had jumped on me again.

    I got better but nowhere near all the way. Lately, the loop at Country Park might even be a bit much for me, so when my pals are not going, I am just as likely to use a large parking lot with a slight tilt on half to get in some lunch and pre-rush hour skating in. I am gravitationally more challenged after the repeated illness/superbad sugar diet and the delay in cranking up regular skating, so even a flat lot can get my numbers up significantly. 

    At lunch I skated about 27 minutes at an average heart rate of 160 ahr (likely unsustainible for an hour...when fit i can usually only manage 154-156 as an all day number) with 175 max hr (which is near the most i go without backing off, though I'd like to see if I can get it up to 186 like I used to be able to). 

    The late afternoon session was 31 minutes at 157 ahr and 174 maxhr.

    Today was a blast, though! People seemed in a great mood from nice toasty calm weather, and the two brief skate sessions were good for getting stuff done in between and later. 

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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 1 day ago
    Somebody Got the Skate Mojo Fever Back in Bigger Size!

    Awesome! This is an ignoring of my various advice that I can applaud. I was actually hoping you'd go for a new set of skates as best bang for buck but afraid to advise that before the event. But I thought if you got the new ones and then couldn't deal, you'd still have the old kit to kick with in an emergency. 

    I'm really glad you got Jimmy Blair and some of the team out there. This is very impressive how you are buzzgening rapido. Did you know those guys before?

    Doing a2a this year? Carolina Century (we have distances from 21 to 102 miles with 10 hours of support for ye up here in Greensboro, NC)? Also we have the Tour to Tanglewood in September, 90 miles in 2 days but with shorter or longer options (check out the roadskater.net team on their site). 

    Anyway no pressure on any of that, and when do you go out for your skates in the next little while? The big day approaches soon, eh? 

    We hope we've helped and that you will share your experiences with the skates and skating here for others who are coming back or starting out or just need some inspiration or consolation. "Failures" are just as great as "successes."

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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 1 day ago
    Distance

    I went 50 the other day on the "old" skates. But only 16 on the new ones today with two skaters from Precision Race team. I plan to skate 30, 50 and 60 again before the day of event. Do you want to join me on one of them?  I am not that fast yet on these huge wheels! but, should be used them soon. I think 8-10 mph.  also our facebook event page to RSVP is https://www.facebook.com/events/314471978622804/  We just had Jimmy Blair of Pinnacle Racing and some of his Precision team join this week!

     

    thanks for encouragement.

     

    email me Gentry at 72Mi...@gmail.com or comments on this post are fine also.

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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 1 day ago
    New Skates

    Congrats on your new skates, and whole new wheel height! Did you get out there today, and how did it go? 

    You still have three whole weeks to go, so that should be enough time to see if you're getting any major blisters or bone bruises. What's the longest distance you are going to go between now and the actual event? 

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  • Reply to: Joy Revisited: Skating the Silver Comet Trail   2 weeks 2 days ago
    New 100 mm Skates!

    Well. Sorry for the delay I was out of town. But, still skating.  Joined APRR also.I just picked up some Crossfire 100's for $100 via craigslist. they still had original center tread on them!  Any how in the process I found a pair of Rollerblade Tempest 100's for $199 on REI OUTLET! If you buy the membership you will get $20 back! They have many sizes.  thank you all for the tips and I will be against your advice breaking in new skates before the 72 miles.  I couldn't resist the skates being the same price as new wheels and my sponsor paid... I will be on the silver comet on Wed and Thursday 9-11 am. Starting mile 8 and going to 0 and back... at least if the new skates don't wear me out.  These 100's are really different than 82 mm. 

     

    Talk soon

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  • Reply to: Seems Like Inline Skating Aligns the Electrons in My Brain: Study Shows Benefits of Aerobic Exercise   2 weeks 3 days ago
    But I wanted to be able to do calculus...

    Great article and study. 

    I skated last night for the first time in weeks due to illness. This morning on the way to work I was asking myself why I was so darned happy. 

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  • Reply to: Tour To Tanglewood for MS 2012 Training Bike Ride Dates   2 weeks 3 days ago
    These Are Fun Free Rides

    Thanks for posting, eebee. These rides are fun and there's always at least one great rest stop done by Val or Elaine or both with help from Mike and others. Last year we didn't make so many of them. This year let's hope we do. I'm starting late and heavy! 

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