[302/365] finally skating

[cosmolinguist]

It was supposed to rain all day and there were menacing clouds earlier, but I had a nice sunny walk home from work, so when I got back I did a little skating!

Really I was just practicing putting on/taking off the pads, getting used to standing up on inline skates at all again, learning to fall/hit things with my hands, etc.

I didn't expect to get further than the front of my own house or to be outside for longer than it took to find, put on and take off the skates and associated gear, and I was not disappointed in either expectation (well I didn't count either amount of time, but they felt about the same).

I didn't fall but my wrist guards already have dirt on them and I got a tiny cut on my hand. My calf muscles were killing me afterwards, but in a nice way.

Overall, I'm satisfied with how this all went!

Bless diffrentcolours, when I caught him up on my day before I made dinner I told him I'd done this and he said he wished he'd known, he'd have provided moral support for me. Very sweet but I think obviousness was the best moral support. Going out when he was working and mother_bones was upstairs too seemed to make it easier, heh. Bad enough to have Toby, a cat who lives across the road, glaring at me and the neighbors pulling up and parking while I was outside. I was working on not being self-conscious but still kinda "do not perceive!"

Comments

[angelofthenorth]

Yay skating

[otter]

That kind of muscle fatigue feels good

Fun!

[cosmolinguist]

It does! I've done lots of walking in the last year and a half but haven't been able to do the kind of exercise that gives this sort of muscle fatigue, it was nice to have it back again.

[jesse_the_k]

Mmmmm -- it's a gratifying feeling.