[SkateDC] Sunday Advanced Skate Report

[Carl Ford]

   Four of the usual suspects who did not go to Chicago Inline  
Marathon showed up for the advanced skate, along with an family  
(father, 3 children, and one of their friends).

   This was an ironic skate.

   First, I was running a little late, but stopped by Susan B's place  
to pick up WAR T-Shirts on the way to the skate.  As a result, I made  
it to the skate a few minutes late and had no time to sell T-shirts.

   Immediately when I showed up, two of the advanced skaters pressured  
me about getting the skate started.  Caving to the pressure, I did not  
get a chance to say "hi" to the intermediates who had just finishing  
their skate.  We left the White House at 11:20.  Of course, those two  
skaters who were bugging me about the time skated off ahead and never  
bothered to make it to the first water stop.  They skated up and I  
told one of them where the stop was, but apparently that didn't  
matter.  More irony.

   Our first water stop was at the 7-11 at South Capitol & M Streets,  
at which the family skating with us made the right call and peeled off  
to skate on their own.  That left two of us to do the skate.  We  
skated hard and were back on the street in front of the White House at  
2:00.  We covered 23 miles in 2:40, for an average of 8.62 mph  
including all stops.  A good skate on a great day

   Here's another irony.  Two skaters were so worried about time and  
couldn't be bothered to keep up a slower pace at the beginning or find  
out where we were going, but I will claim publicly that they would  
have had trouble with the fast pace of the skate.

   --
Carl Ford
ford at dcaccess.net

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a  
superstition.
-Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)