Tour to Tanglewood 2008 Sunday Photos: Bike Ride Inline Skate for Multiple Sclerosis
Submitted by roadskater on September 10, 2008 - 4:21am.
Once the tropical storm/hurricane Hanna had passed on through during what would have been the Saturday morning ride to Tanglewood, the Roadskater.net Team had to decide whether to get in our cars and ride to Tanglewood or hit the roads and burn some calories. We decided to do 48.5 miles on our skates and bikes on a route of supersweet asphalt north of Greensboro.
On Sunday, we were glad to be able to participate in the Tour to Tanglewood for our 10th year on skates, covering 25 to 75 miles on skates. My photos are from the 46-mile route. We set a touring pace and took lots of photos, enjoying the sunshine as we reach the end of summer and face the shorter days and earlier sunsets of Winter ahead!
Submitted by eebee on September 12, 2008 - 12:01am.
There are some action shots from the event's photographer, Rankin, but they have decided to not really share them because I guess they need to make money. So just go here and pick your way through them (...or not because it's too much trouble):
There is an absolutely wonderful photo of Kim and Amy skating. It's picture number 51 under 'TTT sunday route photos'. Go to the 3rd page. Somebody should buy that and put it on brochures, webpages and newspaper articles.
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Photos from Rankin Photography
There are some action shots from the event's photographer, Rankin, but they have decided to not really share them because I guess they need to make money. So just go here and pick your way through them (...or not because it's too much trouble):
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=24312
There is an absolutely wonderful photo of Kim and Amy skating. It's picture number 51 under 'TTT
sunday route photos'. Go to the 3rd page. Somebody should buy that and put it on brochures, webpages and newspaper articles.