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pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1100 Location: seattle wa usa

Moved the rassling between Yandall and I over to the "legal" section Smile

http://pavedwave.myfastforum.org/about280.html

Giving another shout-out to a very cool kid, Rain, who's organizing a Food Drive for the Washington homeless, through this organization! Hopefully Seattle locals will tell their friends, families, etc about this and encourage them to bring cans of food, especially protein foods like Tuna fish and Peanut butter, are in short supply and very much appreciated.

They'll be longboarding the lake and collecting food in backpacks all along the way, unloading them in barrels near our aid station.

Thanks Rain!!

FOOD LIFELINE

http://www.foodlifeline.com/index.html

Winnersh · Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Berkshire, England

Good luck for tomorrow to anyone who is supporting, pumping, or pushing. Here in the UK, we are experiencing an unusually good spell of weather with overnight temp of 50F and daytime of 66F with a 9mph wind moving accross the lake. I couldn't choose better weather for this.

Have a great time, and thank you James.

bluebugbuster · Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 51

Hey guys. Good luck and godspeed on the trails tomorrow. Hope you all have a great skate, I'll be cheering for you on the sidelines.

rodgon · Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 88

I just aquired an oldie GPS and am stoked as one possibly can to use it tomorrow morning. im sooooo hyper i cant sleep. hahaha.

list...

BOARD:

-Pumping
Deck: Galac LDP
Wheels: Big zigs 80a
Trucks: 5.0 bennet mod 129rts
extra: custom toe stop

-Pushing
Deck: NightsSkateboard dropthrough
Wheels: 70mm 78a neversummer
Trucks: Black randall 180s

GEAR:
Music: Ipod video fully charged
Hydration: Camelpack full o the gatorade
Nourishment: Slimfast meal bars/ granola bars
Distance Tracking: Lowrance GlobalNAv212 ( its a biggie... )

Location:
San Diego, Mission Beach/ PB Boardwalk 10am Oct 10th-11th

sleeveless · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 8

I'm going to put in some mileage out at Lake Murray here in San Diego. I went for a late afternoon ride there today (Thursday) and really liked it. It has nice rolling terrain. None of the hills is too steep and I got enough speed to pump back up most of them. It's just a bit over 3 miles in each direction for a total of just over 6 miles out and back. I'll be riding my new Galac LDP and eating PB&Js. I'll post my results. Good luck to everyone!

Barry · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:18 am Post subject:

How Do All Wink

Best wishes and good luck for today.
Skate safe and far.

Take care,
Barry Wink

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1100 Location: seattle wa usa

Thanks Keith, Barry, Eric and Hanael, the same!

Sleeveless, awesome, great having you on.

Rodrigo you're only a couple hours from the start man!! I understand the sleep thing all too well, hehe. All the best. Go mellow, go far...

41 signed up, that's nuts!
http://www.ncdsa.com/contest_registration.asp?ContestID=398

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1100 Location: seattle wa usa

Just got this text from the UK:

"We got booted out. End. A strategic rethink is needed..."

i guess Dorney park shut them down at midnight, 4 hours into it.

Bollocks!

then half an hour later...

"We start at 8 AM. Bring on the 10-hour challenge!"

Brilliant!!

And on the U.S. side...

Eric Lowell was amped, so he kicked off his ride in Houston at 6 p.m. -- going for 200 miles or bust! And who knows, he's near a popo station so there might be a bust Wink

sleeveless · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 8

I met fellow skaters John and Thane out at Lake Murray at noon yesterday. John and I were on our Galac LDPs and Thane was riding a custom creation of his own making. We managed to skate 25 miles before calling it quits. The Lake Murray path is 5.6 miles out and back. The terrain is a nice mix of flats and rolling ups and downs. It was the ups that slowed our progress. I'm sure we could have doubled our milage with a flatter course. But, the speed we picked up skating down the little hills sure made the ride fun. None of us pushed too hard as we had done no training for the ride. We talked and enjoyed the sites of the lake and surrounding terrain. We got a lot of interesting looks from others on the path. My favorite comment was the kid who asked, "What kind of skateboards are those Mom?" She replied that she didn't know. LDP FTW!

rodgon · Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 88

107 miles but i had to stop after a dude in a bicycle hit me ( late at night and he had no reflectives or lights on him... dumbass...) when i was going fast downhill after relocating to eastlake again, tried to go for a bit more but something got pulled on the back of my leg ( nothing mayor just very annoying)

at least i broke the triple digits this time, need to train harder for the next one.

so the total mileage for me would be...

72 miles on the boardwalk

then relocated to my 2.1 mile trail in eastlake.

and skated 35 more miles before getting smashed into.

it was fun though and sorry to say the dudes bike got the worst of it.

good luck to all doing it today! and to my SD crew, we need to train for the next one too!