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Hey, there is a new Schankel Canada suit out.

If your interested in picking one up and looking fine for the spectators, give me a shout or contact our team manager (Andrew) directly.  We need to get a minimum order of 15 together.  I want two, so we just need 13 more

This report is a wee bit late due to real life distracting me from skating/blogging.
Back on July 1st, also known as Canada day here in the northern realm, I skated the annual Canada Day marathon in Cambridge.  This event is kind of in the middle of nowhere, and not so easy to get to, [...]

Some mixed results for this mid-season update.  The pudge-o-meter is under serious attack!  I’ve dropped 20lbs and it looks like I’ll be under 175lbs by Chicago (end of July). Actually I’m hoping for 170lbs by then but it will be tough.   Trying to drop weight and build strength for speed is not really a combination [...]

This weekend I flew down to Napa Valley (wine country) to do the annual Napa Inline Marathon held there on the Silverado trail.  As I started my training late this year and substantially  heavier than the same time last year, I’m still playing catch up with other skaters, but I was glad to be out [...]

Muffin top. Don’t want it, didn’t ask for it, but I’ve got it, and now its the gift that keeps on giving! Over the winter I gained 30+lbs. I’ve been training hard since April to get back into racing shape, and I’m making great progress, but catching up from such a huge [...]

Normally my first race of the season would be in March (Metrodome), and then followed by races like the Texas Road Rash and closer to home the Montreal marathon.  This year though I’m well behind on my training and very much over my race weight.  Its been a huge struggle to get back in the [...]

After a late start to the season and a complete lack of training over the winter, I’ve finally buckled down and started getting back into the skating/training  groove.  Coming back from so much de-training is not so much fun    Fortunately my work ethic is alright, and once I get going things are a [...]

Behind the the ol’ 8 ball.  Yep.  That’s where I am.  A tough winter all around.  A dicey transition from Nortel to Avaya, and months of work related anxiety and stress, then my best friend died, and that knocked me on my ass for a while, and as if that wasn’t enough distraction from training, [...]

This past Halloween weekend I joined the southern bound geese for a trip to Austin Texas and a weekend of skating, topped off with the fun race Tour de Doughnut.   This was an amazingly positive cap to my season.  I can’t remember having as much fun hanging out with skaters for a weekend in a [...]

The place Montreal (the Verdun arena), the time 6AM its dark, its cold and I’m thinking what the hell is with this -4C wind chill?!

Let me rewind a bit A couple of weeks ago I decided (after some cajoling from skater friends) to try out the Defi race for the first time.  In [...]