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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Weds Wheels Off, but we're still here Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:03:08 +0000 * This week: Hoxton Square and Ludgate Hill * Welcome new marshals * Stopping teaching stopping: Skate Patrol Season Ceases * Berlin marathon == THIS WEEK == Take your partners by the hand, on FRIDAY we're going to square dance all the way to Hoxton Square via Victoria, Lambeth and the Barbican. We'll try and keep the Do-Si-Do's and skater's handhold to a minimum during our funky 12 mile route, preferring as we do to work on our double push. After a brief but extremely refreshing beverage and perhaps a bit of late night sh!-shopping, we'll be heading back on the fabled Pentonville Road black run, before a too fast too furious Penelope Cruz past Judd Street, Totem Pole Road and the chic eateries of Mandeville Place, a street famous for, well he would say that wouldn't he? http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20071005 (If you understood any of that, well done). The SUNDAY STROLL is off to Westminster and the London Eye, then across Blackfriars Bridge to Holborn and Fleet St (half time at Ludgate Hill). On the return trip we do the Strand, then we do the Mall (Bryan Ferry never sang about that bit, though) then the Birdcage Walk (nor that, but it sounds like some kind of sports injury) And TONIGHT there's NO LONDONSKATE, because they're over for the season: if you turn up at the Bandstand, you will be disappointed. So what do the marshals do with their spare time? The keen ones will be out for the NTWNS - a fast, occasionally furious, unofficial, unmarshalled skate through town with no set route and no rules beyond "the person in front leads". The rest of them are being packed away carefully in protective wooden cases where they'll stay until spring. NTWNS 8pm from Trafalgar Square, but please not unless you have previous experience skating in traffic and you don't mind being left behind. == LFNS WELCOMES CAREFUL MARSHALS == A big Hello (and thanks) this week to David (more commonly known as dolabriform), Cecile, and Angee who've all recently joined the ranks of the yellow vest wearers. To say we're always looking for new blood would be actually quite inaccurate as it implies a level of active recruitment that mostly just doesn't happen, but volunteers are welcome. If you can comfortably hold your own at the front of an LFNS and are looking for an excuse to skate faster as the weather gets chillier, then speak to one of us on a skate and we'll tell you how it works. == SKATE PATROL WOULD LIKE TO THANK == ... all the volunteer patrollers who've given up their Sunday afternoons this summer to help novices learn to stop skating. Between Easterskate weekend and last Sunday they say they've rendered free assistance to over 700 new skaters in 2007: the party's now over, the red t-shirts are tucked away, and the distinctive smell of burning heelbrakes starting to abate. It should all start happening again next April: we don't anticipate that anyone reading this is going to leave it _that_ long before learning to skate, but if you're interested in joining the patrollers, go and have a poke around their web site. You don't need to be an amazing skater, or an instructor, just competent and enthusiastic. Many patrollers subsequently go on to train as ICP Instructors. http://www.skatepatrol.co.uk/ == THEN WE TOOK BERLIN == This Week on Wheels is shorter than usual (less than seven days? Ed) because everyone's been away racing in BERLIN. For the first time in 11 years this traditional finish to the racing season was rained on, making the race a bit slower than usual and giving the UK skaters (who are, well, used to skating in the rain) a bit of a comparative advantage. Well done to everyone who stayed upright: see the LSST forum for names and photos of London skaters. http://www.londonspeedskaters.com/forums/--p34427.php#34427 Still no news yet from the post-race party. == THE END, MY FRIEND == Feels like Autumn already, doesn't it? Clocks go back in three weeks. Send us your comments via the web site. Send your unsubscription requests using the link right at the bottom after the copyright notice. http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus Small print: Material in this email is protected by copyright; it may be reproduced unchanged in full provided that credit is given. All trademarks are acknowledged. The LFNS is not responsible for the content of external web sites. No man is an island, entire of itself. -- Sent from the London Friday Night Skate - http://www.lfns.co.uk/ Check out any time - see http://www.lfns.co.uk/unsubscribe.php?list=wow |
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