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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week in Wellies Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:21:45 +0000 === THIS WEEK === FRIDAY - CHRISTMAS LIGHTS We aim to warm up for Christmas with a run around some of the best lights in London. Lead marshal Edd will take the London Friday Night Skate to Bond Street, then Regents Street and downhill onto Marylebone High Street before winding our way around and through Oxford Street. A few mews later and we'll emerge on the far side of Edgware Road before taking the back roads to Notting Hill for half time. After a trendy break by the 'Hill, we'll head down to Church Street for a glimpse of the Hyde Park Winter Festival before plunging at breakneck speed down to Victoria and the ever so smooth Victoria Street, around Westminster and up to Trafalgar Square where the lights are on the Christmas tree. After a last plunge down Haymarket and Green Park we'll arrive slightly warmer than ever before at Hyde Park. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20071206 SUNDAY - MUTINY IN SOUTH LONDON Serpentine Road may be clogged up with ice skaters, but this week lead marshal Roggie will be taking the Sunday Stroll on a set of serpentine roads of his own. After navigating south via Horseferrarri Road and Lamborghini Bridge, the 10 mile route will pass a house once occupied by Captain Bligh, famous for being on the wrong end of the mutiny on the Bounty. Skaters and scurvy sea dogs alike will then be cast adrift, heading north of the river to spend half time at Exmouth Market. The run home includes a lovely downhill somewhere near Kings Cross. http://Roger-LFNS-DTPM === LAST WEEK === It is said that every cloud has a silver lining, and with the last London Friday Night Skate and Sunday Stroll both canceled due to delineation issues between Controller Ocean and the Sergeant Stratosphere, we can only say howdy McCloudy for giving London's roads a thoroughly good wash, followed by a remarkably good rinse, before a visit from the mother of all douches. == NARS TO SEE YOU == The National Association of Recreational Skaters (presently somewhat, ahem, nars-cent) is being set up to help recreational skating. It hopes to do things like find halls for people to skate in, help people set up their own local skate clubs, and to represent the voice of the recreational skater at national level in the UK. The association will be officially formed at a meeting later this month, but the real kickoff will be late January/early February at a general meeting where elections will be held for the Board posts. If you're interested in knowing what's going on and volunteering your time/expertise to help get it running, please register for the forum and have a look around. http://www.nars.org.uk/forum/ === MARTY'S CONE DODGING COURSE === For those people who are interested. One of our Marshals - Marty - will be teaching cone dodging on the weekend of the 12th & 13th of January. Capitalising on his TV appearance earlier this year, the course will cost £1299 for the weekend, but we feel as this is indirectly linked to his skills as a speed slalomist, you might be interested to train with a Television Pro. If, however, you've actually seen him skate through cones with all the grace of Ls-Mike's favourite Pigeon, you might be interested in attending Naomi Grigg's professional, and affordable slalom workshop on the same weekend instead. This SkateFreestyle slalom workshop will take place in Hyde Park. It's cost is £60 for the 6 hour workshop. 3 hours each day covers the basics of slalom, along with a few freestyle tricks, such as the Mabrouk, Crazy and the Sun. === LSFC === On Saturday 5th January between 1pm-2pm, the LondonSkaters Freestyle Club again opens its coaching session for free to non members. This time, for total slalom beginners. Simply turn up at the Beach (west end of Serpentine Road). If you like the idea of slalom, and how it can improve your skating, but are nervous about giving it a go, this is for you! Naomi Grigg will be covering how to do snake and crisscross, and if you can handle that, then backward snake and backward crisscross. We promise nothing more advanced! === SKATING BACKWARDS === A belated congratulations to Zoe, who completed her first London Friday Night Skate on November 23, the night that Markus led the skate to Nine Elms. Although WoW has spies everywhere, predictably they were all too drunk to remember much of what Zoe actually said. Not that we ever let a little thing like the truth stand in the way of a good story. "The route was amazing, and I'm particularly pleased that I completed my first LFNS skating all the way backwards on one foot," said Zoe with a charming glint in her only eye. Well done indeed, congratulations Zoe! === CHICAGO - A REPORT FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT === Well it looked like the weather in London was not totally co-operative the last weekend but where London had the usual rain, Chicago experience its first heavy snowfall. Though not to be put off by the severe weather, your correspondent, who is currently in the Chicago area, decided that skating in the snow would be fun. Fortunately there is a free ice skating rink (you only pay for skate hire) in Chicago's Millennium Park. Given that the snow was falling quite thick, the ice was not super smooth and the zamboni had to come out sooner than expected. In spite of the wet cloths, your correspondent left the ice rink after a fun skate in the snow. == HAZARD WARNING == If you wish to stop receiving these emails, please don't email us, it bounces - use the unsubscribe link in the email footer. http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus Material in this email is protected by copyright. It may be reproduced unchanged in full provided that credit or cash is given via an apparently innocent third party. All trademarks and political scandals are acknowledged, and those held in Guantanamo are probably rubbish skaters anyway. The LFNS is not responsible for the content of external internet sites or the rate at which wheels wear out. Turning up to the Santaskate without a valid ticket may result in a ride from Rudolph. -- 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 -- 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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