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Relearning Skating Okay, I've got about an hour or half hour to debate this...should I go skating? I called RollerRama yesterday and they offer a couple of adult skates, and one of them is Tuesday mornings 10am-12pm. Now, I bought a pair of skates half on a whim at Play it Again Sports over the weekend in Ann Arbor. Dan was trying to talk me into buying ski boots and/or snowboarding equipment because I sort of want to learn those sports too. The problem was that they require about a hundred bucks worth of outlay to even try them. That and there isn't much snow right now to inspire me either. So, I found a used pair of quad skates (I cannot inline to save my life!) and bought them for $15 swearing I would start trying to skate again. Well, I threw them on in the store and relearned that, though I could skate well when I was about ten, I'm horribly out of practice. I also have no sense of balance. So, I need to go somewhere to relearn how to do this. Back to the rink... Problem is, I'm bad at forcing myself to go out in public when I have such a high chance of embarassing myself. I keep telling myself that it will probably be dead there so I have nothing to worry about. It's not like the whole place is going to point and laugh at me if I fall, right? Besides, every so often you have to fall or you won't figure things out. I'm an old person already though; I don't like even the idea of falling on hardwood floors. God, I hope I don't break anything. I wish I had someone to go with too. I know I should go on my own and practice doing adult things like that. Besides, I don't think it will be populated. If it is, and this is a slight fear for me, it will probably be good skaters practicing or senior citizens. I doubt the latter though because if they fell they'd probably break something and that wouldn't be good. I just hope if I go nobody laughs at me if I'm stumbling all over the place for the first hour or so on my old fashioned quads. I also hope there isn't a gang of mean inline folks there either ready to skate up to me real fast and pick on me. Lol, funny thing is I don't remember being bothered at the rink when I went as a kid. I have no idea where all these fears are coming from. Must be a general fear of sports. As I'm not getting any clients this week though, I should go exercise. The worst they could do is bite me, right? Daphne |