Idea
Inline skaters from around the world skate 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.
Next date
The next 24skate is planned for 11&12th of June 2005.
Default starting time is 10 a.m.
local time in the morning (morning of Saturday, 11th of June, for countries East of the
date border,
e.g. Africa, Western and Central Europe, Americas...; morning of Sunday, 12th of June,
for countries
West of the date border, e.g. Australia, Asia, India...). But deviations are possible on request.
There is no limit for the number of participants. 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".
How to take part
If you want to skate for one or more hours during the 24 consecutive hours of
24skate #2, then send a mail by clicking here
24skate-owner@yahoogroups.de. The link is ready to simply let you fill out
the following fields:
Subject: Application for 24skate #2
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 the 27th of May 2005.
Participants
Skaters from the following countries took part in 24skate #1:
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Estonia
Germany
India
(Japan)
Malaysia
Singapore
United States of America
The whole spectrum of skaters was present: Children skate groups,recreational and fun
skaters, professional teams, participants from Inline Worldchampionships...
There should be skaters from as many time zones as possible. If a time zone cannot be covered, then skaters of
other time zones can cover the gap.
The result collection is based on trust. Nevertheless, at least one
witness for each skated hour must be present during the skate and be named
in the documentation.
A 24skate result is only valid if at least 20 out of 24 consecutive hours were covered.
A 24skate result can only become an official new 24skate record, if the old one is
beaten by at least 6 kilometers and skaters in at least 10 time
zones took part.
Drafting is only allowed behind other skaters, not behind bicycles, cars,
spaceships or other vehicles.
The difference in altitude between starting and end point of the individual
skaters must not be more than 100 m.
Liability Disclaimer:
Participation is at your own risk. Wearing protectors and a helmet is highly
recommended for every meter skated.
For consequences resulting from the publication of names and links any liability is
denied.
Skaters must be able to skate one hour - also under bad weather conditions
(it is unlikely to have 24 hours sunshine around the world). It is possible to relay
during the hour.
The witness must be able to determine the covered distance
with an exactness of 100 meters. If a closed circuit track of less than 7 km length is used, its length
must be determined with an exactness of 10 meters (e.g. by going ten rounds
measuring with an exactness of 100 meters).
It is desirable - but not mandatory - that the skater or the witness are able to deliver digital pictures of their 24hour.
The skater should provide a substitute for the case of short-term problems
before his/her 24hour.
Ambassadors
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)
Here you can see the certificate (in Adobe pdf-format) which each Ambassador will receive.
Charity support
Principle: No money goes over my table.
Whoever wants to donate or sponsor, does this directly
- and can fully make use of tax deductables and so on, where applicable.
The following donations are announced:
I donated 1 Euro per km of the total result of the very first 24skate
to UNICEF, see
transfer warrant.
I (or a sponsor) will donate 1 Euro per kilometer of the record to
UNICEF when the record distance
covered by a 24skate reaches 500 miles (=804,7km) for the first
time.
I (or a sponsor) will donate 1 Euro per kilometer of the record to
UNICEF when the record distance
covered by a 24skate reaches 888km for the first
time.
I (or a sponsor) will donate 1 Euro per 1000 Yard of the record to
UNICEF when the record distance
covered by a 24skate reaches 1 million yard for the first
time.
I (or a sponsor) will donate 1 Euro per kilometer of the record to
UNICEF when the record distance
covered by a 24skate reaches 1 million meters for the first time.
It would be highly appreciated if you could collect some money for UNICEF during
your 24skate event.
Sponsors
Sponsors are asked to support UNICEF e.g. by taking over or enhance the above mentioned
incentives for 24records and 24results. You also could "buy" a 24skate result, independently
of a 24skate record was broken or reached a certain threshould. Or donate all kilometers
which your employess skated. There is no limit to your phantasy.
Sponsors will be placed on this webpage with their logo and a link to their homepages.
Newsletter
Please send an email to by clicking here
to subscribe for future news.
The newsletter will be in English.
Privacy policy and anti-virus policy:
Your mail address will not be given to any one else without prior consent.
No attachments will be sent via the newsletter.
Answer: No. If you would have paid for taking part, please donate to UNICEF.
Question: What if I fall during the skate and cannot go on? Answer: I sincerely hope that this will not happen. But for this case a substitute skater can
take over your "shift". If there is no substitute skater, the distance covered until the fall
will be taken as result.
Question: Is there a limit for the number of the participants? Answer: No.
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: 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.
Contact
Please contact
24skate-owner@yahoogroups.de for every unclear item, open question
or suggestion for improvement related to the
concept of this project and this website.
Feel free to ask your question in English, French, Italian or German, but please
accept an answer in English or German.
Please use the keyword "24skate" in each mail's subject field, so it will be assigned
to the correct mailbox. Thank you!
I am a passionate inline-skater from Munich, Germany. Two inline hearts beat in my breast: One for recreational skating, another one for inline speedskating.
For the first one I am a so-called "bladeguard" of the Munich Bladenight. This is a weekly event on every non-rainy Monday evening from May to September on the streets of Munich. About 250 bladeguards cordon off the treck of - on average - 20.000 participants from the other traffic. Record participation was 37.000 people. We usually go for 15-20 kilometers and the tour takes a little bit more than one hour. For more information visit
www.muenchner-bladenight.de
(unfortunately only in German, but there are also some "multilingual" pictures).
The speed skate heart makes me try to get contact to local speedskating clubs whenever
I have an international business travel (which is part of my job, 6 to 8 times a year).
The nice people I met this way formed the base for 24skate #1.
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Final remark:
Keeping a multilingual page up to date is a complicated task. Therefore I ask for your kind understanding that sometimes updates will be done first on the English version and later in the other languages.
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