Athens To Atlanta Road Skate

Athens To Atlanta Road Skate Thank you for 42 great years of Athens to Atlanta! Visit www.a2a.net for historical results! (1982-2024)

The Athens to Atlanta Road Skate, established in 1982 and holding its final event in 2024, was the world's longest running point-to-point skating event. The original 1982 event began as a bar crawl, and grew to be one of the most renowned events in outdoor skating, bringing people from all over the world to attempt the very hilly, very challenging, 38 mile, 49 mile, or the ultimate 87 mile course

from Athens, GA to Atlanta, GA. By 1986, the event had become a competition (see results from all years: https://a2a.net/results/). As inline skates came onto the market in the late 80's and early 90's, and outdoor skating began to grow in the USA, so did Athens to Atlanta. The late 90's and early 00's brought as many as 800 skaters to participate in this 87-mile outdoor skating challenge, even receiving television special coverage by OLN (Outdoor Life Network, later becoming NBC Sports). Popularity for inline skating dwindled into the 2010's, and A2A's numbers dipped to 70-90 participants annually. But still, teams such as Junk Skates and Twincam continued to bring world-class skaters to compete each year. A2A also maintained its strong cult following, with skaters coming year-after-year to skate the historic event (and expand their finisher's coffee mug collection). Following years of financial struggles, dwindling participation numbers, and the exponentially rapid expansion of Atlanta's suburbs (read: traffic), the event was almost canceled in 2024. Instead, a last-ditch-effort crowfunding campaign was launched with the hopes of holding one final event. Over $14K was raised in two weeks, and we were grateful to be able to hold the final Athens to Atlanta Road Skate on October, 20 2024. Although extremely bittersweet, it was the perfect finish to 42 years of this epic event.

08/18/2025

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Nov 6, 2024 • Letter From the Event DirectorI’ve been putting off finishing this wrap-up email for days. Aside from my r...
08/17/2025

Nov 6, 2024 • Letter From the Event Director

I’ve been putting off finishing this wrap-up email for days. Aside from my real life not slowing down (at all) while I was gone, I also couldn’t come up with a way to succinctly wrap up 42 years of an event, 31 of which I’ve been a part of. The reality is I’ll never be able write the perfect wrap-up, or share every thought, feeling, and story, so I’ll keep it somewhat brief.

I don’t know if I can say that the Athens to Atlanta Road Skate changed my life, because it’s all I’ve ever known. Reading your stories (or eulogies) from the event, and seeing how many lives it has changed or deeply impacted is exactly what makes it so difficult to say goodbye to this event after 42 years.

While I continue to feel waves of sadness about its end, I also continue to feel such immense gratitude that we were able to have this final hurrah a couple of weekends ago. It’s very rare to have the gift of knowing you’re experiencing the last of something while it’s happening. I am grateful we had that gift of knowing the 42nd A2A was the last, and to be able to really soak it in.

We got to send this event off on a high note with perfect, quintessential A2A weather, 10-year high numbers of 87-mile skaters, and the most intentional ties we’ve ever seen. I must also share my thanks to every volunteer - you afforded me the freedom to skate in this final event, for the first time since 2019.

As we said during Henry’s Final Rant, we will maintain a2a.net for as long as we are able with the robust results pages and DuraSkater rankings. We will hold the “A2A” name in case of a resurgence of a different type of event in the southeast.

For now, I hope the memory of A2A lives on through your photos and stories, and I hope to see you on the road.

- Anna Zuver, A2A Event Director 2016-2024

Merch order closes TONIGHT (Fri 11/22, midnight)! Final opportunity to order your Parade Unit/Peach A2A gear. Don’t dela...
11/22/2024

Merch order closes TONIGHT (Fri 11/22, midnight)! Final opportunity to order your Parade Unit/Peach A2A gear. Don’t delay!

✅ athens2atlanta.bigcartel.com (link in bio)

Products typically take 4-6 weeks for production once the order closes, and will ship upon receipt to Greenville.

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Available items include:
Skinsuits (short sleeve, long sleeve, pro fit), jerseys, fleece jackets, fleece zip pants, training shorts, Parade Unit T-Shirts, “Nice S” T-Shirts, 2023 Event shirts, 2024 Event shirts.

Photos:
Peter Chu,
Dan Burger, alannalaphotography.com

Visit the link in our bio (a2a.net/results). Congratulations to you all! Thank you to Scott Jones for your tabulation, a...
11/20/2024

Visit the link in our bio (a2a.net/results). Congratulations to you all! Thank you to Scott Jones for your tabulation, and David Kaplan for creating and maintaining these very robust results, records, and DuraSkater ranking pages.

Preliminary results not yet verified.
10/20/2024

Preliminary results not yet verified.

10/20/2024

Checkpoint 3/ 38 mile finish is being torn down. All skaters are through.

10/20/2024

It’s always nice to see Herb!

It’s time for the main event!!Awards to start no earlier than 4:30PM, but as close to 4:30PM as possible. Age groups and...
10/20/2024

It’s time for the main event!!

Awards to start no earlier than 4:30PM, but as close to 4:30PM as possible. Age groups and overall placement will be awarded. Thank you to Twincam Bearings & & for sponsoring the award table and event!

Sunday October 20, 2024 • Atlanta/Athens, GA
☀️ 87, 49, 38 miles (the last 87/38!)
🔅 Sat Oct 19 • Athens 10K
🔅 Fri Oct 18 • Police Escorted ATL Night Skate

42nd A2A Presented By: Shea/Stokes Inline Speed

Thank you so much to everyone who came to skate, volunteer, and cheer at the 10K! We had perfect weather, good tunes, an...
10/19/2024

Thank you so much to everyone who came to skate, volunteer, and cheer at the 10K! We had perfect weather, good tunes, and a great time.

Photos:
1. Group photo
2. Women’s Quad overall
3. Men’s Quad overall
4. Men’s Inline overall
5. Women’s Inline overall
6. Under 18 podium

Congrats!!

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