Roller-blading... cross-country style
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threadwalkerSo my leg, butt and ab muscles hurt. What do you do when muscles hurt? Sit on the sofa! woot woot!
No - wait. My karate instructor always had us capitalize on that fatigue and would put us through a "different" work out to shake it off.. or loosen it up... or stretch it out ... or whatever. His pain math went like:
exercise a lot = pain;
multiply this by more exercise = even more pain for a brief period (time is relative math ...lol... geek joke) + stronger muscles + less pain overall
It did not involve flopping onto sofa.
So I attempted to roller blade at Aquatic Park at lunch. They have a path. It's even mostly paved. Emphasis on "mostly". It also has gravel, dirt, hay, mud puddles, aggressive tree roots and a section that is wooden slats over some water run-off. It is littered with tree and bush debris and potted with holes. Most of the "pavement" is worn down to the aggragate, which makes it hard going and you KNOW that if you fall, you will tear open your flesh and bleed all over the place. Alternately, I could lose control where the path is next to the lake and go zooming into the water. (Maybe I need to keep some light weight sneakers on myself just in case..)
I didn't mention, but I'm a very novice roller-blader. Not much skill; lots of determination. Last time I roller bladed was more than 7 years ago and only sporadically for a few months; I fell lots, never learned how to stop without dropping to my knees and sliding on a patch of grass, and it hurt my shins a lot in the very beginning.
All this nostalgia rolled like an old movie in the back of my head, cued up as I tried to "roll" from my car to the trail while navigating around the various natural obstacles in park driveway. Why didn't I remember my inabilty to stop before I started my first down-hill whoosh? (Turns out only the right foot has a break, too. Something else I forgot). Needless to say, the cross-country version was a whole new twist.
Conclusion:
I'll be back! Count on it.
Something about the danger element and the "oh my god this sucks I might not be able to do it" is an irresistable combination for me. But by the time I was done, I was already plotting my next foray.
oh - the pain math is holding up. My legs hurt even more and now my shins are a wee bit achey. woot woot! pain is good! And I need to add a helmet, elbow pads and small back-pack (for water shoes) to my equipment. gots the knee pads and wrist gizmos.
No - wait. My karate instructor always had us capitalize on that fatigue and would put us through a "different" work out to shake it off.. or loosen it up... or stretch it out ... or whatever. His pain math went like:
exercise a lot = pain;
multiply this by more exercise = even more pain for a brief period (time is relative math ...lol... geek joke) + stronger muscles + less pain overall
It did not involve flopping onto sofa.
So I attempted to roller blade at Aquatic Park at lunch. They have a path. It's even mostly paved. Emphasis on "mostly". It also has gravel, dirt, hay, mud puddles, aggressive tree roots and a section that is wooden slats over some water run-off. It is littered with tree and bush debris and potted with holes. Most of the "pavement" is worn down to the aggragate, which makes it hard going and you KNOW that if you fall, you will tear open your flesh and bleed all over the place. Alternately, I could lose control where the path is next to the lake and go zooming into the water. (Maybe I need to keep some light weight sneakers on myself just in case..)
I didn't mention, but I'm a very novice roller-blader. Not much skill; lots of determination. Last time I roller bladed was more than 7 years ago and only sporadically for a few months; I fell lots, never learned how to stop without dropping to my knees and sliding on a patch of grass, and it hurt my shins a lot in the very beginning.
All this nostalgia rolled like an old movie in the back of my head, cued up as I tried to "roll" from my car to the trail while navigating around the various natural obstacles in park driveway. Why didn't I remember my inabilty to stop before I started my first down-hill whoosh? (Turns out only the right foot has a break, too. Something else I forgot). Needless to say, the cross-country version was a whole new twist.
Conclusion:
I'll be back! Count on it.
Something about the danger element and the "oh my god this sucks I might not be able to do it" is an irresistable combination for me. But by the time I was done, I was already plotting my next foray.
oh - the pain math is holding up. My legs hurt even more and now my shins are a wee bit achey. woot woot! pain is good! And I need to add a helmet, elbow pads and small back-pack (for water shoes) to my equipment. gots the knee pads and wrist gizmos.
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Date: 2007-06-21 09:40 pm (UTC)I've never rollerbladed, but broken-up pavement is a scary idea. Have fun!