Race Reports - Ottawa Inline Skating Festival (Sept. 6, 2009)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Garvin on September 6, 2009 at 8:23pm

results are in:

42k pro: http://sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=45465
42K open: http://sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=45464
21K http://sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=45466
10K http://sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=45463
5k http://sportstats.ca/display-results.php?lang=eng&racecode=44499

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mike.

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Permalink Reply by Bill in Houston on September 7, 2009 at 5:21am

interesting how they show everyone for every distance they completed.

nice race michael. hopefully you were happy with it as well.

these times look very fast. must have been a beautiful day.

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Permalink Reply by Georg Nikodym on September 7, 2009 at 5:47am

Big ups to the organizers. Perfect day, perfect pavement, beautiful setting, great people, big competitive pack. Awesome. Next year, can you do something about the long drive home?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Garvin on September 7, 2009 at 7:37am

George Nikodym's photos are up on Flckr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7199627@N03/

Enjoy!

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mike.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Garvin on September 7, 2009 at 7:43am

Full report coming soon...but actually it was slower than last year. With the pros grouped together there was a lot of team skating and people not wanting to work for other teams, so there was a lot of stop and go, still at pace but not as consistently high a pace as last year. Sergio was a machine, I talked to Peter afterwords and he said there were 3 or 4 guys in the lead pack just rotating in 10s pulls trying to catch Sergio, but no joy.

I ate a road snake in the second lap of the 42 so was completely flushed. I hammered though and was able to pick up some other skaters and we caught ourselves up to the chase pack. The leaders were too far ahead to catch.

Overall very happy, the event went very smoothly, everyone seemed to have a good time. For myself I have a cracked rib from a fall on Friday night, and I was happy just to survive the 42k. Strangely it hurts more to walk than to skate. Go figure.

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mike.

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Permalink Reply by Bill in Houston on September 7, 2009 at 12:47pm

An excuse to wear skates to work for a couple of weeks! What more could a person want?

Michael Garvin said:

Strangely it hurts more to walk than to skate. Go figure.

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mike.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Garvin on September 7, 2009 at 4:09pm

he, he, I just hope it doesn't cool off to quick in September.

Wilby's photos are up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmck/sets/72157622286523258/

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mike.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Garvin on September 7, 2009 at 10:12pm

My race report is up:

http://www.littlemdesign.com/livebreatheskate/?p=413

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mike.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Garvin on September 20, 2009 at 1:48pm

Hey everyone, you can now search results online here:

http://www.inlineottawa.com/content/racing/search_results.php

the results go all the way back to 2005.

Also, our race statistics page has been updated:

http://www.inlineottawa.com/festival/results.php

Enjoy!

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mike.

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