tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33785154320239141652024-08-31T14:17:51.852+10:00The Melbourne Speed Club team In Europe 2007YKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10398740225797391296noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3378515432023914165.post-6600953482907287682007-10-05T14:08:00.000+10:002007-10-05T15:25:26.374+10:00

Shift supervisor Herr strudel was baffled... the power grid monitoring system indicated a mysterious surge in demand in the east sector, in particular at the Berlin Innside hotel...Normal evening peak demand period was over.. and yet...Ya, that was us causing chaos on the grid. Having gathered every available hair drier, the post race gear rescue was in full swing.Some years back, getting ready

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As the good Germans would say- 'dat vas szuper-yah!'we skated the berlin marathon in a total downpour- getting drenched to the skin (suits) even before the start- and having first ever experience of hydro planning on skates thru deep pools of water- wow- our hopes for fast times unable to be realised ( although i believe Peter & Raph got some good results- nothing official yet) Inna & I

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Some pix from Friday night skate... more soonenjoy The pack in the streets2 shady figures in the Paris night darkness, with police escort...Skating at the Bologne forest just outside Paris

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NOTEI am unable to load images from this internet cafe computer, so will add these laterThe rainy start to our tour de France, or more so, Le tour de Paris, forced us to concentrate our efforts on an in depth tour of the cafes, restaurants, and especially the boulangeries- the cake and bread shops place conveniently every couple of steps in most Paris neighborhoods.Tough as it was, we managed to

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After the disneyworld experience of Rome, Friday night found us finally all together in Bologna, a city of towers, students, music and great vibes. Peter & Co arrived from Oz and Thailand, Raph and Eve from Switzerland, and the rest of us from Rome. The city planner conveniently located a great cafe at the great square (Piazza Magiore) where we met for coffees, wine and beers, and after a

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Apologies for the absence of posts the past few days, but access to Internet connection has been more challenging then first anticipated, first due to the fact that getting back from the races necessitated late trains, hence late arrivals back to hotels,too late to get online, and second due to the fact that using Internet cafe -when open- required security clearance more intense than applying

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Well, looks like we are ready...We took the opportunity this weekend to run a final 'instrument check' on, well, ourselves...Saturday fronted up to the local GP skate competition, one of a number of events leading up to the state finals. On Sunday, despite initial plans to have a late start and an easy day, we agreed [in a moment of weakness over lunch] to skate a marathon distance along the

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Saturday morning training footage taken at our 'Home turf' -Albert Park Lake- MelbourneFootage © Darren Thomas- Melbourne Speed Club 2007The mind might be already elsewhere, busy with gathering location information, flights, hotels, transport, clocking hours on Google, but this does not prevent us enjoying the fantastic location of the home turf- Albert Park lake, in the middle of Melbourne-

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A note about collecting information:Trying to find information about the locations and routes of the marathons, with the exception of the Berlin one, has proven to be a bit of a challenge. I guess it is a reminder that despite it's prevalence, English is not used for everything, everywhere, which is just fine albeit easy to forget in a 'Googled world'.Where information was only available in non

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The first marathon is in Italy- in Cesenatico [location info] - a port town on the Adriatic coast. This marathon is on Saturday afternoon, September 15th. We'll travel from Bologna to Cesenatico by train, returning in the evening. Sunday we leave in the afternoon to Milan, for a quick look-see, before catching the train to Paris Monday morning.The French marathon, starting in Saint Cheron [

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The plan - ok, the itinerary-Participate in the following marathons:1. Italy - Cesenatico marathon- September 15, 2007 - official site2. France- 3 valleys marathon- September 23, 2007 - official site3. Germany - Berlin marathon- September 29, 2003- official siteIn between, we plan to look for opportunities to skate as much as possible in as many locations as possible (and our 'veterans of

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What da...?Well, this is as close to machine-trans French as we can get to 'Speed Skaters'- which seems an appropriate title for our little sojourns in Europe. We are a group of speed skaters from the Melbourne Speed Club, plus some friends from interstate and overseas, participating in a number of marathons and other skate activities in Italy, France, and Germany as well as side trips (for the

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