It’s baaaaack! This weekend, Sunday Streets returns to Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway from 11am until 4pm.
Come out and walk, ride, dance, hula hoop or just stroll along Sunday Streets longest route, nearly 6 miles of car-free roads through JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park and on the Great Highway from Lincoln to Sloat Boulevards.
In addition to the usual menagerie of exhibitors and events going on at Sunday Streets, I also got word of a special event where the California Outdoor Rollersports Association and the skaters from the Black Rock Roller Disco will attempt to break three different Guinness World Records for skating:
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1) The Worlds Longest Chain of Roller Skaters is specifically for four wheel “quad” roller skates. Each skaters will hold on to the other skaters hips as the group moves together a distance of at least 400 meters without breaking the chain.
2) The World’s Longest Chain of Inline Skaters follows the same criteria.
3) The World’s Longest Skating Serpentine is a little different as it is for both inline and regular roller skates. A skating serpentine is a long line of skaters that are linked hand to hand. The leader or “head“ of the serpentine moves forward and the chain of skaters follow. The head makes turns to the left and to the right as it moves forward forming a snake-like motion with the chain of skaters.
Based on the event website, it sounds like they’re looking to get about 600 people involved to break the record. Mayor Ed Lee has been invited to participate and if you’ve got a pair of skates and also want to help with the record-setting venture, head over to the event website to find out how to register, which is required.
There is a $10 fee to participate. Skaters will meet at 10am at Skatin’ Place at 6th Avenue and Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park.
And if you can’t make it out to this week’s Sunday Streets, mark your calendars for Sunday, July 10 when it returns to our neck of town. Other Sunday Streets dates in 2011:
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May 8: Mission route, including the popular route along 24th and Valencia Streets;
June 12: Bayview route, 3rd Street from Mission Bay, Dogpatch to the Bayview Opera House;
July 10: Great Highway route #2;
August 14: Civic Center/Tenderloin route;
September 11: Western Addition route, including North of Panhandle, Alamo Square and Fillmore and Japantown
October 23: Mission route #2
Sarah B.