On Sunday, July 11, several skaters participated in what is intended to be a biking event (we do that from time to time). Due to reports of some extreme hills, we opted for the relatively short 25-mile option. You can see our route by downloading the PDF file or the KML file.
Here are some pictures from a photographer at the event. This is on Highway 400, only a mile or two into the skate:
http://www.photoreflect.com/store/thumbpage.aspx?e=6915738
Click "Continue" near the bottom right.
Then select "020- GA-400 Group 3" near the bottom left.
We start to show up in Picture 83 (towards the end of Set 2), and are shown through Picture 89. The order is Clarence, Brent, Robert, and me. Note that there was another photographer on an overpass we were skating towards, that's why we're looking in different directions.
One of the cool things about this event is that they closed down a short stretch of Georgia 400, one of the busiest highways in the Atlanta area, for us. For example:
Brent took a couple videos during the skate. Maybe too much of my ass in these videos, as one fellow skater commented, but you take what you can get.
River sunrise (mile 9):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9VAtdCWooc
Tom flying at 36mph (mile 14):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBkZlAResoM
Arborwoods gatorback (mile 17):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSMm9UFdHVY
Brent also posted some pictures here:
2010 Highway Hospitality Century
These are some of my favorites:
This is a hill we had to skate up TWICE:
Whew. Made it!
Obeying traffic signals for a change:
After the other nasty hill climb of the day (other than the two climbs up Old Alabama Road):
Yes, there were some fast downhills, too!
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