Event 3.2 – Sunday stroll [REPORT]
It was a glorious day on the London Sunday Stroll skate
A textbook perfect day; glorious weather, lots of able-bodied people, good times, good food, good laughs.
Given that the London skate is an event that is weather reliant (and let’s face it, we just never know in London – it even rained Sunday morning only to turn sunny later) it could only really go up on AYMP last minute. I called it Event “3.2” for two reasons; firstly, it was impromptu, and secondly this is the third instalment of us joining the London skate, an event I maintain is one of the best networking events around.
On this occasion around 200 people were in attendance and the day was sunny and bright. The music bike pumped out the beats as we skated and weaved through London’s streets to our halfway point at Battersea Park (click here to see the route)
Pic-nique and volleyball in the park after the skate
When the skate wrapped up back in Hyde Park, the energy level was high as a few dozen of us skated down the Serpentine and setup camp on a big grassy area for a pic-nique and some volleyball. It was picturesque – sun, sand, grass and glimmering water. And that’s when it happened…
While I was playing volleyball I jumped up to block a shot… and heard a loud tearing sound. When I landed felt a draft downstairs. My shorts had ripped right down the seam – back to front. I heard giggles and smirks. Yep, I had ripped my pants. All good: I hung my t-shirt off the back like a big diaper and got back in play. The show must go on!
As the afternoon weaned we relaxed and took in the sites: A distinguished and decorated Jamaican Rasta skater groovin’, a bunch of disco skaters dancing, and a bounding dog being cheered by everyone in the park as he tried to catch and kill a very fast and cheeky remote-controlled Monster truck.
Even as the sun faded, the energy a day in the sun was still high, so a half dozen of us went back to my place to have a BBQ in the back yard; more good times, laughs and char-broiled steaks. Like I said, textbook perfect summer day.
The day ended with a BBQ at my place
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the London skate is an amazing way to meet people. It’s a free, active day out with a friendly crowd who are always up for follow-on adventure. Indeed at best you might meet someone amazing, and at worse you’ll make lifelong friends. Win-win.
Sunday is the Stroll (nice and easy pace), but now that summer is here there are three skates a week with varying levels of pace.
Photos from the day:
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Event 3.2 – Sunday stroll [EVENT DETAILS]
The weather is looking gorgeous this weekend, so I’ll be joining the London Sunday Stroll, and then after we will relax in Hyde Park, have a pic-nique and perhaps play some volleyball or other park games. AreYouMyPartner has joined the London Sunday Stroll and London Friday Night skate before (Event 3), and it’s an amazing day out and a great way to meet adventurous, like-minded people so we’re doing it again.
See you there!
Event details
Starts: Sunday, May 8th 2011 @ 1:45 PM
Location: Hyde Park Corner. Click here for map.
Cost: FREE (but you need to bring skates and any safety gear you like wearing. If you don’t have any skates or gear, you can rent the whole kit for the day for £10 from here: Club Blue Room, near Marble Arch)
Who can come: Anyone can come – you can be a novice skater on the Sunday Stroll. All you need to know how to do is stop. You will be in a large, protected crowd of people. It’s very safe, and very fun!
If you don’t want to skate, but still want to participate in this event, you have two other choices to come out on that day;
1) You can bike, but bikers hang at the back of the crowd
2) You skip the skate but join us after the event at 4pm for some drinks – call me at 4pm to find out where we’ll be
Weather warning: In the event of bad weather, this event will be cancelled. The “go” or “no-go” information can be found here on the day: www.lfns.co.uk.
Contact:
Email: ideas@areyoumypartner.com
Telephone: On the day you can reach me on this mobile number if you need to: 07528 282 570 (PLEASE NOTE: that number is only active that day, so don’t call it before or after.)
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