Many of TISC’s skaters recently traveled to Duluth, Minnesota to skate in the Northshore Inline Marathon. The annual marathon, which attracts up to 3000 skaters, is North America’s biggest inline skating event and part of the 2009 NROC.
TISC’s star of the event was Sarah Hopkins who finished 3rd place overall in the Pro Women’s race. Hopkins, who recently moved to Calgary for the winter to train for long track speed skating, put together a strong finish to earn her position on the podium.
Other TISC skaters who skated well and placed near the top of their respective categories include Morgan Williams & Scott Pauley.
Pauley set a personal best in the marathon.
Morgan Williams leads the elite Veteran & Grand Veteran men’s race- photo from Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
The 2009 re-do crew- TISC’s Brock Howes, Jesse Pauley, and Peter Doucet formed one half of the 2009 NSIM re-do crew, skating the course a second time to cheer on skater. The other half of the crew included Randy Bowman (Texas), Nadine Jackson (New Brunswick), and the legendary Eddy Matzger (Virginia)- photo from SpeedSkateWorld.com
Before the race- Eric Gee and Georg Nikodym join the Inline Planet’s Robert Burnson and Ottawa’s Mike Garvin- photo from SpeedSkateWorld.com
Skaters begin to line-up after the Pro & advanced waves are off- photo from SpeedSkateWorld.com
Sarah Hopkins, Morgane Echardour, Jesse Pauley, Travis Shaw, and Morgan Williams with lots of early morning energy before the start of the race- photo from SpeedSkateWorld.com
At the expo- Jade Pauley, Mister Pauley, Leo Frusteri, Peter Doucet, Phil Luckai, Peter Moynihan, and Frank Luckai- photo from SpeedSkateWorld.com
At the expo- Morgane Echardour, Sarah Hopkins, Georg Nikodym, Eric Gee, Travis Shaw, Joel Stitt, and Christine Stitt- photo from SpeedSkateWorld.com
Posted by Peter Doucet 
