Skating: it's NOT like riding a bike
Sep. 22nd, 2008 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zanthessSo I thought since I want to start roller derbyin' after I was finally done with school, I'd get back out and start skating again to get the hang of things. I've had a pair of skates that I spent over $200 on and have worn twice in seven years. I bought them during a long-distance relationship for love. Yeah, I do stupid things like that. After we broke up, I decided to keep the skates still, knowing that one day, I'd want to put them on again.
I get there, put on my skates, and do the wibble wobble around the rink a few times, getting the feel for having feet that want to fly out from under me (I forgot I had replaced the standard bearings with speed bearings). I realize that I'm dripping sweat and am starting to shake, so I sit down for a song or so, watching others skate around.
As the third song starts, I feel the gumption to get back up, take two steps forward and *WHAM* slam my knee that I had surgery on a few years ago, right into the floor. I was waiting for the inevitable pain of tearing joints or some type of dislocation, but it didn't come. I hopped back up and kept going. I did feel a burn after going around a few times, but settled into a rhythm that kept the burn at a comfortable level.
I only lasted 45 minutes to an hour out on the rink, but it's a battle won. Now's the time to take some ibuprofen, get lotsa rest, and ready for the aches and pains that will join me tomorrow. And every tuesday thereafter, because I plan to go every week.
I am so poooped. 'Ta.
P.S. I just got invited to a Halloween party and I haven't done any costuming in nearly 4 years! Any suggestions for a quick fix? I had the idea of getting some fake fur in bright colors at the fabric store and turning them into some type of hunter's outfit, claiming to hunt muppets. Thoughts?
I get there, put on my skates, and do the wibble wobble around the rink a few times, getting the feel for having feet that want to fly out from under me (I forgot I had replaced the standard bearings with speed bearings). I realize that I'm dripping sweat and am starting to shake, so I sit down for a song or so, watching others skate around.
As the third song starts, I feel the gumption to get back up, take two steps forward and *WHAM* slam my knee that I had surgery on a few years ago, right into the floor. I was waiting for the inevitable pain of tearing joints or some type of dislocation, but it didn't come. I hopped back up and kept going. I did feel a burn after going around a few times, but settled into a rhythm that kept the burn at a comfortable level.
I only lasted 45 minutes to an hour out on the rink, but it's a battle won. Now's the time to take some ibuprofen, get lotsa rest, and ready for the aches and pains that will join me tomorrow. And every tuesday thereafter, because I plan to go every week.
I am so poooped. 'Ta.
P.S. I just got invited to a Halloween party and I haven't done any costuming in nearly 4 years! Any suggestions for a quick fix? I had the idea of getting some fake fur in bright colors at the fabric store and turning them into some type of hunter's outfit, claiming to hunt muppets. Thoughts?
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on 2008-09-23 07:15 am (UTC)It sounds like your day went quite well, with your knee holding up, and everything else. Skating always takes me a while to warm up to...and even then I'm not good at it, though I do love iceskating.
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on 2008-09-23 08:04 am (UTC)I can't iceskate too well, my left ankle wobbles a lot, for some reason, there isn't a problem with rollerskates.