Sunshine! Warm weather! Good friends! Smooth pavement! Jealous? You should be. Margo and I have just returned from a week in St. Petersburg Florida culminating with the Squiggy inline event this last weekend in Tampa. The week leading up to the race was a vacation in paradise. Jan and Lois Kopis and Margo and I spent the week skating, sunning, beaching and just having fun. Brian Joyce, Guy and Mary Ann joined us later in the week leading up to the event for some more fun. It was great getting out of town and away from the weather.

Once again, there was some great racing at the Saint Paul Inline Marathon. Registration may have been low this year, but enthusiasm wasn’t. Unfortunately, the Miss and Out elimination race had to be cancelled due to the rain. The Mears Park course was deemed unsafe due to the wet pavement. That didn’t stop the pros [...]

In a hard fought battle of top teams, Team Rainbo captured second place at the Metrodome team time trials, coming in second behand Adam’s Inline and just ahead of Pyroapparel. In the individual time trials, Peter Starykowicz pulled a three-peat, winning for the third straight year. Read full reports of both the team event and [...]