Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
Last fall I was passed by *a guy on roller blades* while climbing Oak Hill in Harvard. I was going around 8-9, not my slowest by any means. He passed my husband, too who was definitely going a little faster than me.

This guy was around my age, and i really thought it was another cyclist passing me because of the whooshing sound he was making and the fact that he was wearing a cycling helmet.
Very discouraging.
I drafted BEHIND a guy going 26 km/h (a bit over 15 mph) on rollerblades. Granted, terrain was flat. But still. In Montreal they have an event "around the Island" every year... 128 km of rollerblading so there's lots of people training on the bike routes, and going quite fast!!