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::: Paul Byrne
(AUS), Masters Speedskater and eldest brother of Australian World Team skater Mick Byrne, took live commentary to a new level this weekend in Melbourne… for Australia at least.Not enough to raise eyebrows… until the Masters skaters hit the track for their own races. Byrne’s commentary continued, as spectators realized he was making full use of his radio mic by commentating on (and in!) his own race. No headset, just a standard microphone and enough input from Paul to ensure his fellow racers tactical thinking was being broadcast live to air.
For Newton it may have been ‘that’ apple, but for our own Dr climate the heat was on at the Big Apple – when he took part in the 2007 New York 100K skate marathon…
::: Finding myself in the US while my skate mates were doing marathons across Europe, I came down with a severe case of marathon-envy. The solution to this soon became obvious when I discovered that I would be in New York city the same weekend as the NYC skate marathon and New York 100k. The 100k race offered the chance to pack two and a half marathons into one and thus seemed the value for time and money event.
Here is an a excerpt of a longer post I originally sent to the Eu07 tour blog- typed on a crazy French keyboard with as many typos as a non qwerty layout will allow in a short time. The story covers some of our skating in France. It proved popular enough to be considered as a stand alone piece, with some pictures added…
::: For those who have never experience this- the Paris Friday night skate is a weekly event with between 5000- 8000 skaters! doing a 30 KM tour of Paris- starting at 10PM and concluding just after 1 AM at Montparnase metro. We arrived on time and after listening carefully to he instructions for that nights ‘course du skate’ (the route changes every week) which were in French and which we understood totally (NOT) we asked one of the crew and he told us this will be a new course which was never tried before- a climb to Montmartre and a super downhill- cobblestones and all- yeah great…Montmartre is certainly one of the more elevated spot of Paris, mmm, so off we went just after 10.15 escorted by police on skates, 2 ambulances, and about 50 crew from the organization.
