The Scooter’s Indoor Speed Club will be holding two Club Invitationals. The first will be on Sunday January 25th and the seconds on Sunday February 22nd. Click here for more information.

For both events, doors open at 8am and registration is from 8:30am to 9am. General warm-up will be from 9am to 9:10am followed by races until 12 noon.

[Information form] [Entry form] [Waiver]

USA Roller Sports’ 2009 Spring Banked Track Clinic will take place at Colorado Sprins’ Olympic Training Center. The clinic will take place April 29th to May 3rd. [Click here for more information]

Yann Guyader, 2008’s World Inline Cup and World Champion, will be holding a skating clinic with SpeedSkateWorld.com and VRL Le Club in Montreal. The clinic will take place on January 17th and 18th- for more, visit Clinic With World Champion Yann Guyader- Montreal- January 17-18 2009.

Il Peloton is involved in organizing a training camp in Mexico in March 2009- you can find some information here: Skate Mexico Info now Online…., and also on the Il Peloton events page- view PDF with lots of information.

For the third year in a row, an inline speed skating training camp will be held in Mexico. This year the training camp will take place in Merida, Yucatan. Click here for latest information on the Yucatan Training Camp

2008 group of skaters in Mexico- photo shared by Road Rash Chronicles

The 2009 Montreal 24 Hours event will take place June 6th and 7th.

The event is a 24-hour race featuring skaters in relay teams of up to 10 members. The event takes place on the beautiful and secure Gilles Villeneuve race track in Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal. Nearly 1000 skaters take part in the annual event.

Les dates du 24h 2009.
Décembre 2008 – Le prochain 24h Roller Montreal se tiendra les 6 et 7 juin 2009.

The first ever OISC Indoor Invitational Race Series took place on Saturday, December 6th in Hull, Quebec. Click here for the complete results. The next event will take place on February 7th.

Click here for a photo album of a recent indoor inline skating training session in Gatineau/ Ottawa.

Photo from cor1000

On December 6th and 7th, the Ottawa Inline Skating Club will be hosting the first ever OISC Indoor Invitational Race Series–

NEW! InlineOttawa is holding its first ever invitational indoor competition. This unique 5 hour event, will focus on bringing together inline skaters from different skating clubs and allowing skaters to compete with other skaters in their ability range through unique race formats. The event is limited to 32 skaters so register quickly to ensure you get a spot.

Le Taz, a new indoor roller speed skating facility in Montreal, is planned to be open in 2009. Read more in Montreal’s Taz- Taking Shape–

‘Le Taz’ is a wonderful project that will inject much needed growth, development, and excitement for the sport in Montreal and Canada. The facility is great addition to Quebec’s sporting system, which has a long and rich history.

Photo from Peter Doucet/ SpeedSkateWorld.com

The following is from [RACE REPORT] Northshore Inline Marathon–

Frank Larue (Dr. Frank), has been confirmed as the new record holder for his age at the Northshore inline marathon, inline skating’s premiere skating event.

Frank dropped the record from 1:34 to 1:21 for the 42K 67 year old males

Toronto Inline Skating Club’s Morgan Williams also the record for his age this year-

You can find the age records list updated with the 2008 race results.