Hi All!

This weekend marks the official start of spring, it's already light until after 18.00 in the evenings! And the weekend after comes the return to British Summer Time, after which we'll be skating to 19.30 in the light again. Hooray!!!

Articles
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Here's a new online marathon magazine, from the big three marathons in the USA, Disney, Duluth, and St. Paul:
http://adisneyworldsports.disney.go.com/media/dwws_v0220/en_US/newsletters/InlineNewsletter-March.pdf

Landroller recall?
http://www.landroller.com/terra9_recall/

Events
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The LondonSkate returns for the summer.
Wednesday April 19th

Come join this group skate around the capital with music powered by the famous BassFreight. It's tremendous fun, a rolling street party, good exercise, and loads of social.
http://www.londonskate.com/

Races
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The Blenheim Inline Challenge
Near Oxford, Saturday 20th May, LSST with the London Triathlon present:
http://www.theblenheiminlinechallenge.com/

Disney Inline Marathon
Orlando, FL
April 1st - 2nd
http://www.disneyworldsports.com

Metrodome Inline Marathon
April 22nd, 2006
http://www.roller-dome.com/mim.html

Interviews
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Luca Saggiorato and Francesco Zangarini, amongst others. Funny, and worth a read! (Click on the news link near the top left)
http://www.speedsk8rs.com/

Videos
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NBC news reports on inline and ice in the Olympics
http://www.cora.org/OlympicSk8.htm

See what it's like to freeskate in -9C to -27C weather.
Features slalom, slides, skitching, etc.
http://rollerclub.ru/video/otmorozz/ver4.mpg (138MB)

Longest ever rail grind?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4418191111850537816&q=rollerblading

Rodney Mullen, better than ever (skateboarding):
http://www.drunkencat.com/media/1131134466/Greatest_Skater_is_back

A different kind of snakeboard?
http://www.snowboardroad.com/video/snowboardroad.wmv

Music video
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http://www.rollerrapper.com/

Got anything you want to publish, good skating articles, videos, etc? I'd love to hear about them for possible inclusion.

Cycling
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Here's a "Give Cyclists Room" campaign - you can buy stickers from this website to put in the rear window of your car.

I have 8 of these stickers to give away - the first email replies with a name and address will get one in the post.
http://www.givecyclistsroom.co.uk/

Trent Field
Amazing flatlanding on a BMX. The video just gets better and better!
http://www.socalbmx.com/movies/trent_field.wmv

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Best regards,
Mike.

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