3Km test in heerenveen

yesterday was test race evening in the nice stadium from heereveen, thialf.
pascal raced a 3km : 3m58sec , his 2nd best time on this distance...

result test groningen and race in alkmaar

hi,
saturday alain get the green racing ranking. he is now 1st and will race next week end in green skinsuit...cool
roger crash in the last lap and race a 7m04 in his 1st 5km in groningen on sunday evening.
pascal race a good 500m in groningen with a 38.79 and a ok 5km with 6m59.

powerplay race tonight...live sbs6

after another week of training, powerplay skaters race this week end.

roger, alain, jorrit and michiel race in top divisie for the marathon series live on sbs6 at 18h tonight. stephan race in A-group. tomorow pascal, race 500m and 5000m in groningen...

tomorow the results...

thomas in heerenveen ...jump training

yesterday thomas arrived in heerenveen for a week of training. he check with pascal some new jump for the weight lifting program and some exercice for training corners with elastic.

later in the day, thomas did also a little bit of ice speed skating in groningen ice stadium...

groningen test race

yesterday, was a test race in groningen. pascal meet egbert post and willy langeland some good friend from kardinge ice rink. pascal did a 500m in 39,07 and a 1500m in 1m57'89.

alain make the show for POWERPLAY

good job alain, after only 3 races in the top division he got a 2nd place. roger and pascal got 23th and 43th. so now the POWERPLAY team jump to place 9th in the team ranking with a pretty confortable 98pts.

every saturday evening at 18pm is the race and you can see the race at 19m from a link at www.schaatspeloton.nl or on the website of SBS6.nl

pro model shoes

Pascal Briand Pro BootCarbon shell
SHMR-Technology™
boot fully heat mouldable
microfibre upper material
aero flap with micro adjustable buckle (replaceable)
waxed laces
side abrasion protection
Poron™ ankle padding
Poron™ heat mouldable tounge padding
Lorino™ lining; Mounting
195mm X-slot mountingSize: 37 - 47

Here is the 1st "Briand Pascal" shoes ever made, they are already available and it seems netherland skater already like this design. Pascal developped it with POWERSLIDE with the idea to have simple colors linked to world championship, clear design not full of things that are not always necessary so the boot can be light.

training and team presentation

Today was weight lifting training for a part of the team, pascal, alain and roger. program is based with combinaison of squat and jumps...

Later in the day was the POWER-PLAY.NL team presentation. that was time to introduce powerplay business, the new magasine PODIUM and the schaats team Powerplay.

ZDF show in Mainz

Yesterday was a demonstration race for inline skating in mainz. this event was organised by ZDF , the great german TV channel that support inline skating. race was mainly time trial 10km and a report was on TV. beside the event you could see kids race, kids clinic organised by powerslide.

At the end of the day, team rollerblade international and team powerslide international was doing a show and a puirsuit to present the high level part of the sport...

That s good event for the sport, good to have tv coverage... may be a concept idea to develop in some other countries...

utrecht qualification race 2

saturday , about 100 skaters start again for 100laps in utrecht for the 2nd race of the qualification week end race.
the race has been stopped 23 laps to go , due to a bad fall of 2 skaters...

it seems it could have a been a sprint finish as attack was not really hard , and skater not so motivated to breakaway on this heavy ice in utrecht.

next week end, skater will get point also for individual ranking, so the battle should be harder. this race is gonna be "live" in SBS6 in netherland.