mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (White People)
mousme ([personal profile] mousme) wrote2008-04-22 06:23 pm
Entry tags:

Mitigated success

So rollerblading so far has been a mitigated success. It is not nearly as close to ice skating as I would have liked. Who knew that wheels on concrete don't react at all like sharp blades on ice? :P There was also considerably more pain involved than I had anticipated, given that I hadn't anticipated any. Turns out my shins are not fans of rollerblading.

I am, as a result, going to take this slowly. Today I spent about twenty minutes just rolling around in very wobbly circles. I have not at all got the hang of braking (I think the fact that there's a lot of grit on the sidewalk near my place may have interfered a bit with the brake), and so have been using convenient trees and fences. I look like an idiot, but that's rarely stopped me in the past.

The plan is to go around in wobbly circles for about twenty minutes each day until I get the hang of things. Then I'll venture maybe to the end of the block and back. I refused to go further until I'm sure I can apply the brakes properly, because otherwise I'll be plunging directly into oncoming traffic, which would very much not be a good thing.

Mostly I am annoyed by the leg pain thing. Falling over/colliding with the cover is one thing, but being actively in pain while not doing anything drastically wrong? That's just insulting. I'm hoping it'll go away with practice.

Cross-posted to [livejournal.com profile] team_ankh_2008.

[identity profile] shovel-bum.livejournal.com 2008-04-23 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
You are far more daring than I! I'll stick to my old bike and let the kids do all the rollerblading. Good luck with it!

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2008-04-23 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Actually, I'd rather take rollerblades to work than my bike: I figure there isn't as far to fall. ;)