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skatersjourney · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Plymouth, UK

I was considering a bell after my Bath-Bath experiences of late - I do however prefer to adopt a BBC's finest Inglieesh accent and give a "Ding, ding!" instead. It saves on weight Smile

I'm thinking I can't afford a GPS, so a lap counter will have to do. I'm going to steal my brothers clicky counter thing (like club doormen have) to do it that way. I'm an honest sort, there'll be no trouble here.

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pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

Barry that's amazing, you're clocking some nice mileage these days! I was seriously stoked to see yours and Eric's notes about the laps around Dorney. Sounds like an awesome crew over there. Seems like everyone would be charting the smoother course, I have no idea what's what in terms of route or surface condition from those satellite shots -- but the skate pics I've seen so far look glorious. Given that, it looks like a solid, round figure of 3 miles per lap? That's pretty cool. And kind of ironic given you all are using the far more intelligent metric system Wink

Actually Laura, I was kicking around the idea of using a somewhat humorous, slightly obnoxious duck call to get attention of pedestrians --but my inline skater friend advised that the bicycle bell sound is more "universally recognizable" so I'd get faster reaction time. Makes more practical sense, even though I'd still like to quack at people. I use my voice now, but the reactions are haphazard, when people are lost in conversation. And the footbraking sound never fails, but it sucks to lose momentum. The crowds seem like another non-issue at heavenly Dorney!

As far as honesty in tracking miles, I trust we're all logging miles for our own personal bests, more than for world conquest. This has always been my philosophy and intention. Setting the first Ultra records was really nothing more than trying to get more people interested, and in the end if someone were now shooting for Ted's record 242, only made it to 241 then claimed 243, whoopee! for them. I've seen it happen before in another event, ostensibly to benefit a sponsor, and it's really pathetic.

Honestly achieving our goals, and knowing we've done everything to be accurate about it, is a very rewarding thing -- because we'll know deep down that it's "real" and we'll always have something to shoot for the next time. I've been talking with people at work lately about this, because many want to know what exactly is so addicting to make us do this -- more than once?? Laughing

Alec · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:30 am Post subject:

LD skater since 1971 · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

pavewaved:

Barry · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

How Do All Wink

Cheers for the comments James, one thing of note is that the satelite images on google seem a little dated from what I have seen, and the southern side of the lake has another slimmer full length rowing lake and what looks like a lot of dirt and construction is now green grass or pavement.

Sod the bell get an air horn, that will make the buggers move Twisted Evil

though as I found out when I bought one of those airzound horns years ago for my work bike, it make you more agressive and you start looking for oppertunities to use it, arter it broke from over use I became a much more chilled cyclist again.

I prefer to use miles to measure distance, my bikes have computers set on miles and I think in miles, feet and inches, but navigating in the mountains I use meters kilometers, and at work I use milimeters. yet most of the pipework I do is imperial.

If I am making anything I use metric and imperial measurements, so it may be 50mm x 75mm and 6 feet 9 inches long Confused

As for weights metric and imperial sometimes both at the sametime.
I was brought up using both so I can not make my mind up to use one or t'other so I mix and match what works best at the time.

Take care,
Barry Wink

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

Metric because of the rowers in this instance. However the Pint rules (but don't ask me what a Quart is....)

Alec · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:58 am Post subject:

You must be about the same age as me then Barry. I think in metric and imperial as I was taught both at school

edit: forget that I've just seen how old you are over on skatefurther. Embarassed

A lot younger than me. Rolling Eyes

LD skater since 1971 · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject:

That's weird because I follow formula one and world rally series I play all my racing games in kilometers hour. I measure every thing in millimeters because it more accurate but I convert it to inch when I am posting. But I prefer metric system that they taught us back in 1970's because the USA was going to switch but we never did. It so much easier than our standard system.
When I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan in my air force days the speed limit was 50 km/h that equals 31.06 miles per hour. What was cool was I could get around town faster on my bicycle or skateboard because of the slow speed and traffic jams. I also prefer driving on the left hand side of the road also. It took me awhile to get out of the mode when I returned to states.
I also really love my MAC because it has easy conversion tool built end to the calculator.
So any news on the San Diego Velodrome yet? If not I will do the silver strand on my new long board larry walkabout.
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Barry · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:12 am Post subject:

pavedwave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 1120 Location: seattle wa usa

The Lon Haldeman story is awesome. I always hope the accomplishments of these monsters who push the bar higher just encourage the 'rest of us' to go for personal bests, rather than discourage by making it seem unattainable. What keeps my interest in this is just finding out what my own body's capable of.

Definitely there can be pain along the way, but I find LDP is relatively low impact, and you can find ways to make it more so. I have knee issues as well from falls and jumps 20 years ago snowboarding, and it sometimes resurfaces as one of those "walls" around the 75-100 mile mark. For the knees I've found its a matter of changing stance every so often to refresh the muscles used and not get too repetitive. Ankles would be trickier, I rely on them a lot for quickly pumping on smaller uphill bursts, I guess just locking the ankles and using more upper body motion would be one way to try minimizing motion. But busting through some of the aches and pain thresholds can be a huge motivator, just as long as you know when to really quit. One thing Ted really encouraged was to finish strong, and finish injury-free. Typically my doctors have been supportive of this type of skateboarding after I explain the mechanics and aerobics of it.

Interesting about the metric system -- I was in grade school during Carter's reign, just after Ford signed us up for metric conversion, so I remember teachers trying to help us (as well as themselves) to convert -- man do I wish it would have happened. It's far more intuitive, even our current president might be able to add by tens.

Btw I haven't heard anything new from Rodrigo on the SD velodrome, my guess is it would be a no-go, if it's anything like the Redmond vel up here... they just don't know what to make of us Wink

On the other hand that silverstrand sounds like a great stretch!