Fans of skiing always take the moment to get out on the track and take a walk, but far from all regions can boast of a year-round ski season. What to do? Suffer every year in the off-season in the snow? Inventive athletes found a way out. Skiing on wheels - ski scooters - are becoming increasingly popular.
What are ski rollers
Skiers can, on the one hand, be compared to skis: they are similar in shape and have boot mounts. On the other hand, a board on wheels resembles a scooter. But with nothing to compare, and this sports equipment is becoming increasingly popular, and for a long time not only among ski lovers.
Of course, skaters do not need to wait for winter and snow, which in many regions does not exist at all. We need smooth tracks with a hard surface, but this is easier. By the way, the designers came up with inflatable wheels for miraculous skiing, you can ride them even along dirt tracks and paths without looking for a special ski-roller track. Skis on rubber inflatable wheels are more stable and are recommended especially for beginners. Athletes use hard-drive scooters in training and competition.
Skiing track
What it is? It’s easy to imagine what a ski-roller track is like, knowing the features of the roller skating device. This is an asphalt and, as a rule, looped path with a perfectly even coating. Such a coating is necessary, because the ski wheels, in contact with potholes and cracks on the asphalt, begin to vibrate very much, which leads to the inconvenience of the athlete and affects the life of the equipment, unless you have a model with inflatable wheels.
These paths are often winding, going from mountain to mountain. This allows you to increase the efficiency of the training process for athletes, and for lovers such a ski-roller track will add variety to the walk.
With the increasing popularity of skiing, there is a need for specially equipped tracks. And every year there are more and more of them: it is dangerous to ride on roads, even on country roads, on pedestrian paths, however, athletes make it difficult to move freely.
New ski-roller tracks appear in parks, recreation centers, at ski resorts as training grounds in the snowless period. It is remarkable that they began to arrange them not only in large cities, but also in small provincial ones, which makes sports even more affordable.
Who rides
This question may seem inappropriate, but in fact it is relevant. The ski run is attractive not only for skiers. Lovers of roller skates, cyclists, runners and just pedestrians come here to train and walk. Here is a community gathering here.
There is nothing strange for Russia in this. They gather on specialized bicycle paths and somehow divide the space. But in Germany, for example, they try to protect ski-roller tracks from outsiders.
Highways of Russia
In fact, there are still few specially equipped tracks, most of them perform their functions concurrently. We can distinguish the ski-roller tracks of Russia, the most appropriate for the purpose.
Let's get acquainted with the main ones.
Saransk skiing track opened in 2012 at Kumysnaya Polyana. Its length is small - only one and a half kilometers, but the relief is delightful for users. The height difference is 30 meters, so there are enough descents and ascents. The width of the track is four meters. The length of the track increases due to additional loops up to four kilometers.
A six-and-a-half-kilometer ski-roller track in the Robin - the center of skiing and skiing in the Arkhangelsk Region. The height difference here is 54 meters, and the width is six meters.
In Pestovo, Novgorod Region, a track 3 km 200 m long. In Voronezh, in the Khokhloma district, a three-kilometer track for beginners and exceeding five kilometers for experienced athletes.
One of the best tracks in Russia is located in the Pskov region near the city of Ostrov. There, a large circle is 5 km.
Not far from Ryazan there is a ski-roller track in the village of Varsky, in the Smolensk region, in the village of Przhevalsky, the Demidov district, at the biathlon complex, in Novomoskovsk, the Tula region, in Belgorod, in Kostroma, in Kaluga, in Demino, Yaroslavl region, in Toskovo, Leningrad region, in Karpovo, Vologda . In the Tver region in the Zapadnodvinsky district in Mukhino, in Toropets, in Likhoslavl, in Chupriyanovka, Kalininsky district.
Roller skiing tracks in the Moscow region
The ski-roller tracks in Moscow and the Moscow Region outnumber, perhaps, all Russian ones. Only in Moscow there are more than a dozen such places. The most famous walking paths for skaters:
- 5.5 km long bow;
- Krylatskoye - about 4.5 km;
- Museum Museum - track 2 km;
- Sokolniki - 8.5 km;
- two three-kilometer paths of Filevsky park;
- Elk Island - a path of 20 km;
- in Kuzminsky park - more than 5 km;
- on the embankment of the Neskuchny Sad and the Sparrow Hills - 14 km.
True, the above places are mostly non-specialized paths, namely the very friendly ones. Everyone rides here: scooters, cyclists, lovers of scooters, skateboards.
In outskirts of Moscow
65 km from MKAD along Novorizhskoye or Volokolamskoye shosse, behind the village of Rumyantsevo, there is the Golovino complex with a five-kilometer highway. The track consists of three asphalt loops - two of 2 km and one 1 km. This place looks nice - a ski-roller track. Photos can be made there gorgeous, and even the nature is marvelous.
In Dmitrov, a lighted track for beginners with a length of 2 km 300 m is equipped.
The recently launched track on Planernaya has long been in ideas. Many believed that she would remain only in plans. But it is completed and open at the biathlon club.
Odintsovo highway
The most popular ski-roller track located in the Podushkinsky forest park Lazutinskaya (Lazutinka). Odintsovo is a city where they remember that the initiator of its construction was the famous skier Larisa Lazutina. That’s the name that stuck to the track. And officially this is the Larisa Lazutina track , located in the Sports Park of the same name. The track was opened in 2002, it immediately attracted general attention.
There used to be an ordinary ski track, which turned into an asphalt track and now could be used in summer for skiing training. The length of the route is about six kilometers. There are many ascents and descents of varying difficulty. In general, the place is perfect. All that was needed was good lighting, which they also promised to restore. Then they decided to improve the track, reconstructed it and turned it into a European-style ski center. There were built cafes, changing rooms for athletes, toilets, a recreation area. We expanded the parking lot, repaired access roads.
On Lazutinka, competitions of skiers in winter and skiers in summer are regularly held, many of which are traditional.
True, now another problem has appeared for athletes. The track has turned into a mass walking place for locals with children, strollers, dogs. Unfortunately, most of them do not understand that during training, skiers reach speeds of up to 50 km / h, and walking here is not at all safe. As a result, training cannot be carried out at the proper level, because athletes are constantly forced to avoid collisions with walkers.
This is how the population currently exists with the hope that they have a great place for walking, and the athletes with the hope that the issue of full-fledged training without interference will somehow be solved.
How to get there
From Moscow to Odintsovo can be reached by train from the Kursk or Belorussky stations, as well as buses from the metro stations "Victory Park" (No. 339) and from the metro station "South-West" (No. 461). Next by regular bus going to Vlasih. You need to get off at the Verkhnyaya Otradnoye stop.
Coordinates for motorists - W: 55 41′26.6 ″ N (55.690722), D: 37 15′1.43 ″ E (37.250397). Departure from Moscow along the Krasnogorsk highway (toll road section) or along Mozhaisk.