Inline/quad skaters from around the world skate whereever they want scheduled in a way such that 24 hours are completely covered without a break.

The goal is to cover as many kilometers as possible and to knot a global net of skaters.
An additional goal is to help UNICEF, the United Nations agency to support children around the world.
Participation is free of charge.

24skate #5 took place on the weekend 14+15 June 2008. The date for the next 24skate is planned to be at the end of May or June 2009. The exact date is yet to be decided.

There is no limit for the number of participants and venues per hour. On the contrary, it is even desired that each hour is covered many times. Just for the determination of the 24skate result only the fastest skater of each hour "scores".

Below you find the current state of 24skate #5 timetable.

You can check your time difference to UTC time standard at e.g. this World Time webpage.
If your country is e.g. in time zone "UTC +4", then take your desired local start time and substract 4 hours to get the UTC time.
Vice versa, if you will skate in time zone "UTC -6", then add 6 hours to your local start time to find the UTC time.
If this is too confusing, then just tell me your desired local time and I will do the calculation for you.

The following timetable is the one for 24skate #4 in 2008.
Click on the link in the table entries if you would like to contact 24skaters at that venue. For some, who did not wanted their email address to be published on a website, I will act as relay point.

Hour #	Date and Time	Venue #1 & local time	Venue #2 & local time	Venue #3 & local time	Scoring skated kilometers
Before	14th of June 2008, <11:00	.	.	Erfurt, Germany, 08:00-13:00	-
1	14th of June 2008, 11:00	.	Beijing United Road Skaters, China, 19:00, 18 km	Erfurt, Germany, 13:00, 36,5 km	36,5
2	14th of June 2008, 12:00	Munich, Germany, 14:00, 8,4km	Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20:00	Erfurt, Germany, 14:00, 36,1 km	36,1
3	14th of June 2008, 13:00	Hollenstedt, Germany, 15:00, 23,8 km Hamburg, Germany, 15:00	Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 21:00 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 10:00, 22,8km	Erfurt, Germany, 15:00, 36,5 km	36,5
4	14th of June 2008, 14:00	.	Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 11:00, 21,2 km	Erfurt, Germany, 16:00, 36,4 km	36,4
5	14th of June 2008, 15:00	.	.	Erfurt, Germany, 17:00, 36,4 km	36,4
6	14th of June 2008, 16:00	Bensheim, Germany, 18:00	.	Erfurt, Germany, 18:00, 36,8 km	36,8
7	14th of June 2008, 17:00	Karaj, Iran, 21:30, 17,3 km	.	Erfurt, Germany, 19:00, 36,8 km	36,8
8	14th of June 2008, 18:00	Mons, Belgium, 20:00, 21,6 km	.	.	21,6
9	14th of June 2008, 19:00	Mons, Belgium, 21:00, 19,2 km	.	.	19,2
10	14th of June 2008, 20:00	Minnesota, USA, 15:00, 22,8 km	.	.	22,8
11	14th of June 2008, 21:00	Minnesota, USA, 16:00, 20,1 km	.	.	20,1
12	14th of June 2008, 22:00	Flatwoods, Florida, USA, 18:00, 20,8 km	.	.	20,8
13	14th of June 2008, 23:00	Christchurch, New Zealand, 11:00 (15th of June)	.	.	.
14	15th of June 2008, 00:00	Thousand Oaks, California, USA, 14th of June, 17:00, 10,4 km	.	.	10,4
15	15th of June 2008, 01:00	Sydney, Australia, 11:00, 33,0 km	.	.	33,0
16	15th of June 2008, 02:00	Sydney, Australia, 12:00, 33,3 km	.	.	33,3
17	15th of June 2008, 03:00	Beijing United Road Skaters, China, 11:00, 25 km	.	.	.
18	15th of June 2008, 04:00	Wuxi, China, 12:00, 22 km	.	.	.
19	15th of June 2008, 05:00	Wuxi, China, 13:00, 11 km	.	.	.
20	15th of June 2008, 06:00	Berlin, Germany, 08:00, 21,7 km	.	.	21,7
21	15th of June 2008, 07:00	Kelkheim, Germany, 09:00, 10 km	.	.	10
22	15th of June 2008, 08:00	Munich, Germany, 10:00, 29,1 km	.	.	29,1
23	15th of June 2008, 09:00	Teheran, Iran, 13:30	.	.	.
24	15th of June 2008, 10:00	Burgos, Spain, 12:00, 25,6 km	.	.	25,6
After	15th of June 2008, >11:00	.	.	.	-
				Current sum	580,1
				Current average	26,4 km/h

The Thueringer Speedskating Club (TSSC) Erfurt (German website) put his 12-hour race on June 11th, 2005, under the roof of 24skate. In 2008 they join again.

"Skating Karlsfeld" (German website) will be a partner event of 24skate. Karlsfeld is a community close to Munich, Germany. "Skating Karlsfeld" is an event hosted by the youth workers of the community. In 2005 they did a lottery to raise some money for UNICEF. Expected number of participants at "Skating Karlsfeld": 1.000

St. Petersburg Marathon (Russian website) - a non competitive event - joined 24skate #2.

Green Ball Skate Moscow (Russian website) also took part in 24skate#2. This is a city skate for beginners and takes place every Saturday. Meeting time is 14:00 near Gagarin's memorial (Leninsky Prospekt metro station). Click this link for a group photo.

If you want to skate for one or more hours during the 24 consecutive hours of 24skate #5, then send a mail by clicking here register@24skate.net. The link is ready to simply let you fill out the following fields:

Subject: Application for 24skate #5


Your name


Your town


Your country


The local time when you prefer to skate


How long do you want to skate: (default: one hour)


Is there daylight saving time where you will skate?


Anything else useful


Okay to publish your name: Yes/No


To register a whole team, training group, club, public event etc. please tell me a contact person and his/her substitute, as well as all names which are allowed for publication.

You are very welcome to the team!

Registration deadline:
Registration is possible even after the 24skate - if you only skated during the relevant 24 hours. But for setting up the schedule only applications are taken into account, if they arrive not later than one week before the 24skate.

Coordinator:
The coordinator of a 24skate gathers the registrations and sets up the final and detailed schedule. Coordinator for the first and next 24skate will be me.
The result (distance covered) and some more documentation (photos of the people, the places, the weather, the spectators etc.) are sent by all 24skaters or their witness/es to the coordinator. The coordinator organizes that this material - including the total result - is posted on the 24website.

Everyone, who donates one Euro (or more) per km of the distance covered by one 24skater in one hour and tells this to the 24skate co-ordinator, will receive the title 'Good-will Ambassador of 24skate, supporting UNICEF'.
There can be only one Ambassador per 24hour skater. An agreement of the skater must be presented by the Ambassador-to-be.

Here is a list of the 24skate-Ambassadors:

• Andrea Saterbak, Stillwater, Minnesota (for 52km of Matthew McGuire)
  
• Rosane Mello da Silva, Rio, Brasil (for 20,6km of Rioinline)
  
• Annika Risch, Lemwerder, Germany (much more than 1 Euro per km for 18,2 km of her father Knut Risch)
  

Here you can see the certificate (in Adobe pdf-format) which each Ambassador will receive.

It would be highly appreciated if you could collect some money for UNICEF during your 24skate event.
Here a tip related to this: Turn to your friends, relatives, small firms, big companies and ask them to sign a sponsoring agreement with you in which they promise to donate a certain amount of money to UNICEF per skated kilometer. This works fine for children- run-for-UNICEF events in primary schools, so this should work for you too, shouldn't it?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Is there any participation fee?

Answer: No. If you would have paid for taking part, please donate to UNICEF.

Question: Is there a limit for the number of the participants?
Answer: No.

Question: Do I have to travel for the 24skate event?
Answer: No, the 24skate becomes global by skating locally. You just skate wherever you want/can during the 24 hours of the 24skate event.

Question: If much more than 24 skaters, each skating one hour, take part, how is the result calculated?
Answer: The longest distance covered in each hour will be taken, if several skaters or relaying skaters skate during the same period.

Question: I would love to take part, but I have no time on the very date. What now?
Answer: Don't worry. I hope there will be many 24skates to come. You can either organize one yourself on another date - with support from my side and this website - or wait for the, hopefully, yearly next 24skate to come.

Question: Is a witness needed per skater or can he/she testify the result for several skaters?
Answer: One person certainly is able to testify for several skaters if they skate within one drafting train. But it will be difficult to determine the position of several skaters far away from each other at e.g. 11 a.m. sharp. Let your witness state his/her limit to you.
For a relaying group of skaters certainly one witness is sufficient.

Question: How can I send a mail to all subscribers of the newsletter?
Answer: Send your mail to me and I will decide, if I will convert it into a content of the official newsletter. This shall protect the subscribers from spam mails.

Question: Do I need a team to take part?
Answer: No, go can go on your own. You just need a track and someone to determine the kilometers you skated during your hour.

Question: To donate do I need to fill in some form? To be registered? Do I transfer the amount directly to the UNICEF bank account in my country? With a specific remark or comment? How will you know the total amount collected?
Answer: You don't need to register, you don't need to fill out any form. Just donate as you would do without the 24skate: Visit the local UNICEF group or transfer money to UNICEF in your country. You can use the keyword "24skate.net" in the transfer, so they get aware of it, but this is not mandatory. Tell me afterwards the total amount donated (I trust you word, no proof of evicence is needed).

Question: How can I find out about UTC time compared to the local time at my skate venue?
Answer: Try this website: http://www.weltzeituhr.com/start_e.shtml ("Weltzeituhr" is German for "world clock", but the link goes to the English version of the page).

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Special Thanks to

• Conny Strub, Vancouver, Canada, for her continuous support and advice


• Daniela Duerbeck, Munich, Germany, for her excellent composition of the first logo and converting my scetches into the powerful current one


• Rod Wilmot, Roller-Montreal, Canada, for his supportive enthousiasm


• Winand Klar, Hannover, Germany, for being the first to link from his website www.fun-skating.de (German) to the 24website


• Ulrich Suerbaum, Munich, Germany, for getting a nice and fast 100mm frame for me at ebay ;-)


• Michel Parent, Quebec, Canada, for providing the French translation


• Luiz Claudio Mandarino Freire , Rio-Inline, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, for providing the Portuguese translation


• Carlos Sainz Mata, Spain, for the Spanish translation


• Fariba Fahti, Iran, for the Persian translation


• Asociacion Patinar - Zaragoza, Spain, for unbelievable creativity and commitment, contact to UNICEF Spain, a special 24skate T-Shirt and much more


• Young Hsu (Alex), China, for the Chinese translation


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