Noch keine doughnuts#

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:30:38 +0000

Another year, another Berlin. Slightly (who am I kidding: "entirely") disappointing 1:17:52 caused by being tripped after about five minutes and losing the front of the block. And then falling again entirely on my own a few miles later when I was skating like a mong.

[[My predictions => Drills and skills]] for this race were correct in broad outline but not entirely accurate: rather than being just two lines it was more like two lines plus large assortment of random skaters trying to force their way in here and there (it was one of them that got me); it was slow enough that it wasn't just the strong skaters pushing to the front, it was everybody; instead of the anticipated big stack that wiped out a bunch of people, we had many small stacks taking one or two or three. I counted five such, not including the ones I was involved in. Everyone assures me that the front of block B continued to be a rather unpleasant place to skate for some time after I involuntarily left it.

My plan for coping with it was a more unambiguous washout. Ho hum.