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Badger State Games Marathon Report - Goal Reached

June 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Inline Marathon, Race Report

I’ve been training hard this summer hoping to reach my goal of breaking the 1:30 barrier this year as I had posted earlier. I’m happy to say I achieved that today at the Badger State Games.
It was a really fun and challenging race. BSG has no Open division, so I had to sign up for [...]

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2008 Squiggy Inline Classic Report & Photos

March 10th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Inline Marathon, Race Report

The opening event of the 2008 season was the Squiggy Inline Classic 7 mile time trial and marathon. The event this year was run by Birgit and Jessica from the Skatelog Forum and they did a tremendous job running a classy and smooth event. The time trail was on Saturday, March 8th and the marathon [...]

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My First Marathon: 2007 St. Paul Inline Marathon

February 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Inline Marathon, Race Report

On Sunday, August 19th I skated and completed my first inline marathon. My training had picked up in recent weeks since the Chicago event, and I was assured by teammates and SkateLog forum members that I was ready. I’m really glad I moved up, the 10-mile tour would not have been nearly as satisfying or fun.

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Race Your Race

February 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Inline Marathon, Race Report, Racing

I previously had commented on my discussion with Cale about pulling at your own speed during practice, and this ended up branching out into a larger discussion on outdoor race tactics and pulling. I imagine this might prompt some interesting conversation. First, a bit about Cale Carvell, in case you don’t know who he is, [...]

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