Are we skating this Sunday ?
As a general principle, we skate each and every sunday, all year long.
Unless an official cancelation notice has been issued, you should assume the skate is ON !
As soon as the route has been approved by the Police Authority, most often on thursday or friday, it gets published on this site (https://www.rollers-coquillages.org/carte/), on our Facebook Group and Page, and bulk-emailed to our Newsletter subscribers. To recieve these weekly mail :
Exceptional cancelations
In case of particular events in Paris (for instance : Tour de France arrival, big demonstration, New Year’s Eve …), a cancelation notice is posted on the site and social networks as soon as it is decided.
Weather considerations
Cancelation on saturday or sunday morning
If the sunday afternoon forecast is clearly hopeless, we try to issue a cancelation notice as soon as possible (two checkpoints: saturday noonish, and sunday noon), to avoid unnecessary costs and give everybody enough time to rework their arrangements.
Cancelation on sunday 2:30pm or after
If the weather is uncertain, we sometimes try to keep our options open, so as not to miss a chance to skate due to a hasty cancelation that turns out to be unwarranted. In those cases, we encourage you to take that chance with us and show up at the meeting place. More than once, we have been able to salvage a skate that seemed unlikely, which is very satisfying. And sometimes, we have had to cancel at the last minute, or after 10 minutes of skating under a pouring rain, but you can’t win all the time…