Live Breathe Skate

The 2009 competitive inline season (outdoor) has come and gone.   I plan to skate the Tour de Donut in November, but it will be a fun race more than anything else.  Now I’m wrapping up my season and taking some well earned rest for a month and in November I’ll be starting my off-season training.  [...]

The proverbial fat lady has sung. This past weekend was my last race of the season. After much thought, I decided to make it the last competitive race of my season. I still plan to do the Tour de Donut in Houston, but it will be a fun race, not for [...]

Leading up to the big show (the Northshore Inline Marathon), I’ve been doing a little more training but essentially I’m already at my peek and goal going into the race this weekend is just to stay injury free and ready to race.
Last weekend was the last big training session, all told [...]

This is a big report on our Festival event, the first part is on what it takes to organize an event like this and the second part is my personal race report. If you would rather just read the play by plan, skip down below.
Under the Hood:
The summer has whizzed pass in what now seems [...]

Over the past month or so I’ve been focusing a lot on cleaning up my technique. I believe that from here on in, the remainder of my development will be in improving technically. Conditioning wise, I know how to train myself via weights, plyos, and on skate drills and exercises. But the [...]

Its been a short season. We started skating in April, and my last race is Houston in November but all the same its been a short season. Here in Ottawa we’ve had one of wettest summers on record, in fact in July we set the record. Combined with working two jobs, volunteering [...]