This week the wednesday night skate did one of the longer skates in it's repertoire. We headed out through Roma St parklands, past the Royal Womens hospital & Northy Street markets, out to Albion and then across to Tenerife & back through New Farm. I was hoping to be able to show a GPS plot but my laptop crashed when I was downloading it and wiped the record of the journey from the GPS. This is the route from a similar skate a few months ago
We started at around 7.45pm and were back at the cars at 10.30ish having covered just under 26km.
We started at around 7.45pm and were back at the cars at 10.30ish having covered just under 26km.
Unfortunately what I can't show is my GPS plot showing my speed reducing from around 16km/h (10pmh-ish) to 0 in the space of around 6'. I wasn't paying attention and my front wheel dug into a crack on the pavement, dumping me onto my hands & chest with no warning. My kneepads & wristguards saved me from the worst of it but I was a bit grazed & winded. The first skating stack for a while when I was just 'skating along'. Nothing broken so it's all good :)
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