Skating (finally!)
Jul. 13th, 2013 02:38 pmThis site has one of the most awesome Easter eggs I've ever seen. Mouse over the blue cup on the right.
(Also of note: Check out the name of the portable radio.)
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Skating today! Because the ice at my usual rink is apparently now more like a very shallow swimming pool, I trekked down to Franklin for a public session on their rink that was packed to the brim with tiny hockey boys traveling in packs. Sigh. (There was one tiny hockey girl with hot pink laces on her skates, too. I'm not usually one to think kids, pink, or the intersection of the two are cute, but that was actually pretty cute.) The other girl there in figure skates and I just kind of shook our heads and resigned ourselves to lots and lots of stroking/swizzle/slalom practice.*
But that wasn't such a bad thing, since this was largely to test if skating would make my tendonitis flare up again or not. I'll know by tomorrow, as it seems to take a day or so to manifest. But in exciting news, I did a forward crossover I did not stumble out of! And when I say "a forward crossover," I do in fact mean one, singular. But it's one more than I've ever managed before! Next on the list: 1.) how to replicate that, 2.) how to string more than one together, and 3.) how to do them in a circle rather than an ever-narrowing spiral.
My poor skates, though, have more battle scars from that exercise. It might be time to invest in some boot covers. My knees are also crying and wailing about how they'd thought this foolishness was over, dear god in heaven.
In other excellent news, I got my stops back. I had to skate the entire long axis of the rink backwards doing stops every few feet to do it, but I did get them back. \o/
* This isn't to say I'm not grateful there's another rink within driving distance. It was only built maybe fifteen years ago, so before that my other choice would've been...Knoxville.
(Also of note: Check out the name of the portable radio.)
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Skating today! Because the ice at my usual rink is apparently now more like a very shallow swimming pool, I trekked down to Franklin for a public session on their rink that was packed to the brim with tiny hockey boys traveling in packs. Sigh. (There was one tiny hockey girl with hot pink laces on her skates, too. I'm not usually one to think kids, pink, or the intersection of the two are cute, but that was actually pretty cute.) The other girl there in figure skates and I just kind of shook our heads and resigned ourselves to lots and lots of stroking/swizzle/slalom practice.*
But that wasn't such a bad thing, since this was largely to test if skating would make my tendonitis flare up again or not. I'll know by tomorrow, as it seems to take a day or so to manifest. But in exciting news, I did a forward crossover I did not stumble out of! And when I say "a forward crossover," I do in fact mean one, singular. But it's one more than I've ever managed before! Next on the list: 1.) how to replicate that, 2.) how to string more than one together, and 3.) how to do them in a circle rather than an ever-narrowing spiral.
My poor skates, though, have more battle scars from that exercise. It might be time to invest in some boot covers. My knees are also crying and wailing about how they'd thought this foolishness was over, dear god in heaven.
In other excellent news, I got my stops back. I had to skate the entire long axis of the rink backwards doing stops every few feet to do it, but I did get them back. \o/
* This isn't to say I'm not grateful there's another rink within driving distance. It was only built maybe fifteen years ago, so before that my other choice would've been...Knoxville.
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