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In-line skaters race in oily’s first contest By Pamela Storm Staff Reporter And the flag goes down. In-line skaters take turns racing down a straight, 300-meter stretch to the finish line. About 20 skaters ages 14 to 52 faced off Saturday morning at Star City Shores on 27th Street, and Highway 2 to participate in the Per sonal Best Benchmark Skate. Timers tried to use a radar gun to clock the skaters' speed in miles per hour, but traffic from Hwy. 2 interfered with the signal. Sarah Giraud, a participant in Saturday’s event, practiced in-line skating seven hours a day for four days. An avid skater, the freshman at Lincoln Southeast High School trained at an oval, raised track in Colorado Springs, Colo., last week. She said she worked on her starts, lunges, finishes and techniques. Giraud’s personal best time on a banktrack is 32.25 seconds. Saturday, her straight track time was 31.7 seconds, which was hindered by an ankle injury. Saturday’s race was the first organized tim ing event sponsored by Lincoln Parks & Recre ation, Play-It-Again Sports and Linc-In-Liners, a local in-line skating club. Linc-In-Liners has been together less than two years. The 25-member group started as a spin off of the Comhusker State Games compe tition two years ago, said Don James, member < Lake Hickenbottom/DN TOM WINTER SKATES a 300 m. spring Saturday morning during a Linc-In-Liners’ gathering at Star City Shores. Winter is a UNL associate professor in the classics department Linc-In-Liners. On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, skat ers gather at a park and skate on one of the trails. The group also hasparticipated in ice-skating les sons. Skaters must have the right equipment to participate. James said a quality pair of starter skates can cost under $100. Beginners should start on a flat surface without obstacles — and find the softest place to fall, he said. Tom Winter, an associate professor of clas sics and secretary of Linc-ln-Liners, stressed safety. ' ' He said skaters needed seven items to pro tect themselves: two knee pads, two elbow pads, two wrist guards and a helmet. Winters, 52, started ice-skating on frozen lakes in Michigan. He took up rollerskating in Nebraska, and started in-line skating about six years ago. “It’s very liberating,” he said. “I always hate to put shoes on.” He says he rollerskates to work almost ev ery day at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. “I have wiped out more times than-1 can tell,” he said, laughing. “Skating the trails is a good bit safer than commuting because in commut ing you have to deal with just about everything —curbs, good and bad sidewalks and intersec tions.” Winter said the event was noncompetitive. Every skater receives a certificate, he said, so “everybody wins.” “It’s just the individual, his skates and the clock.” mrnrnmmmm It’s about time Now in Session. Clinique’s Looks-Making Time-Saving Workshops. No time? No excuse. C’mon. Learn to spruce up your looks in a jiffy with a quick little visit to Clinique. The Expert will show you how to make 3-minute eyes, do a wake-up makeup in five, cram a mini-vacation into a 7-minute shower—and send you on your way with a quick-read guide to split-second moves. It’s all at Clinique’s Time-Saving Workshops, happening all this week. Study Hard. Have Fun. Look Good. http^/www.dinique.cx)m ■ ■’ •• : _ , ; 13th ft Q Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 TW. 402 476-0111 Fax 402 476-7755 > Store Hours: Monday-Saturday 9:00am to 6:00pm Thursday 9:00am to 8:00pm • Sunday 12:00pm to 5:00pm CLINIQUE Allergy Tested.. 100% Fragrance Free.
