Skate Fresh took place from may 11th till may 15th 2005. Unfortunately I couldn't free myself from work the first days, so I guided the weekend only. Skaters from 15 countries joined the group. Some of whom I only knew through email or their personal websites.

Unfortunately the weather was not so good. At night it was freezing cold. Very unusual for this time of the year. During the day the sun appeared and we were lucky that it stayed dry. First i took off with Astrids group to shoot some pictures. They kept a good pace, even chasing some cyclists :-) After lunch I drop to group three (Group two had there lunch somewhere else, so I missed them). Later I had to dropped back to group four to shoot pictures of them, when Wout asked me to take over group two, because of his bad ancle. so I had to race to the front again.

We had a great day of skating and socializing. the finish was the campsite on a tiny island called Kaag-eiland, near to the city of Leiden. After sunset we stayed warm at the fire place (and the beer).

Thank every body for a wonderfull time,
Peter.

MOVIE: Skate Fesh 2005 day 4, 7min 36 sec. (48MB)