Guest guest Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Pink wrote: > Oh! Ice skating is a TOUGH workout! Are you going to a rink or is > there a place outside near you where you can do it? I've never done > it outside, only at a rink, but I'd love to try it outside someday. > Please report in! hi pinky! so sorry for this late reply... we did go skating as a family a week ago (on friday the 5th). it was ok, despite both dh and i not being on ice skates for, oh, 35 years! this was skating in an indoor rink... i like the indoor rink better than an outdoor one because the indoor rink has sides that you can hang on to, or smash in to, etc... lol anyway, dh gets his skates on, hops on the ice and skates around like he last did it yesterday....grrrr! i started out very rusty, clung to the sides for about 5 times around. then i found that it was coming back to me and i could skate on my own and i eventually got going really well !! i made it for 45 mins, and then, well, i guess that i got too over-confident, or i lost my concentration, i dont really know what happened... but i took a bad fall i actually hit the back of my head on the ice and i was out of commission for three days with a headache and a really sore neck and shoulders (normally these are sore spots for me, but i was surprised that my neck muscles hurt so much, and all around the front of my neck as well as the back). it seems that the extra padding that i have on my butt saved that area from injury. oh well... im all recovered now, but i will definitely skate alot slower and stick close to the walls from here on out! im kind of scared of falling again and really messing myself up. hopefully by the end of the winter, i will be good on my skates again. :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 I didn't see 's original message but was reading this thinking, never skated on outdoor rink, how? And then I remembered it doesn't snow there like it does here! I grew up near a pond and the people who lived next door to it (and owned it) allowed us to ice skate on it all the time in the winter. You had a really scary fall, Carolyn!! I haven't been on ice skates in years but I rollerbladed for the first time a few months ago and it seemed really natural after just a few minutes so I think I'd be okay on ice skates again but then again, the ice is a lot faster surface than a rollerskating rink so who knows! I keep looking for free skates in my size on freecycle, I'd love to go again. I took ice skating lesson when I was young and got to a point where I would have started competition skating and that's when my lessons ended. Not a big deal though, I didn't really want to do competitions, just have fun. I wasn't anywhere near graceful enough for competitions anyway I realize now! I had the athleticism but that's where it ended! Anyway, come to Michigan sometime , we'll find you some outdoor rinks to skate at. One of my favorites when I was younger was skating at Hart Plaza in Detroit, right next to the Detroit River. You can look across the river and see Windsor, Canada! I haven't done it in oh so many years and I don't even know if there is still a rink there (I know there's a newer one downtown that I haven't been to yet though that is also supposed to be really nice). Re: skating Pink wrote:> Oh! Ice skating is a TOUGH workout! Are you going to a rink or is> there a place outside near you where you can do it? I've never done> it outside, only at a rink, but I'd love to try it outside someday.> Please report in!hi pinky! so sorry for this late reply... we did go skating as a family a week ago (on friday the 5th).it was ok, despite both dh and i not being on ice skates for, oh, 35 years!this was skating in an indoor rink... i like the indoor rink better than an outdoor one because the indoor rink has sides that you can hang on to, or smash in to, etc... lolanyway, dh gets his skates on, hops on the ice and skates around like he last did it yesterday....grrrr!i started out very rusty, clung to the sides for about 5 times around. then i found that it was coming back to me and i could skate on my own and i eventually got going really well !! i made it for 45 mins, and then, well, i guess that i got too over-confident, or i lost my concentration, i dont really know what happened... but i took a bad fall i actually hit the back of my head on the ice and i was out of commission for three days with a headache and a really sore neck and shoulders (normally these are sore spots for me, but i was surprised that my neck muscles hurt so much, and all around the front of my neck as well as the back). it seems that the extra padding that i have on my butt saved that area from injury.oh well... im all recovered now, but i will definitely skate alot slower and stick close to the walls from here on out! im kind of scared of falling again and really messing myself up. hopefully by the end of the winter, i will be good on my skates again.:*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Oh my Carolyn! I am glad you are okay now. Ice is terribly unforgiving! I hope your next skating adventure is a lot safer! Kathy From: exercisevideos [mailto:exercisevideos ] On Behalf Of Darcy LedmanSent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:00 AMTo: exercisevideos Subject: Re: skating OMG Carolyn - so glad you are okay now. That sonds like a horrible fall. How scary!Darcy On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Festival City Concrete/ & Carolyn Visser <pvissercyg (DOT) net> wrote: Pink wrote:> Oh! Ice skating is a TOUGH workout! Are you going to a rink or is> there a place outside near you where you can do it? I've never done> it outside, only at a rink, but I'd love to try it outside someday.> Please report in!hi pinky! so sorry for this late reply... we did go skating as a family a week ago (on friday the 5th).it was ok, despite both dh and i not being on ice skates for, oh, 35 years!this was skating in an indoor rink... i like the indoor rink better than an outdoor one because the indoor rink has sides that you can hang on to, or smash in to, etc... lolanyway, dh gets his skates on, hops on the ice and skates around like he last did it yesterday....grrrr!i started out very rusty, clung to the sides for about 5 times around. then i found that it was coming back to me and i could skate on my own and i eventually got going really well !! i made it for 45 mins, and then, well, i guess that i got too over-confident, or i lost my concentration, i dont really know what happened... but i took a bad fall i actually hit the back of my head on the ice and i was out of commission for three days with a headache and a really sore neck and shoulders (normally these are sore spots for me, but i was surprised that my neck muscles hurt so much, and all around the front of my neck as well as the back). it seems that the extra padding that i have on my butt saved that area from injury.oh well... im all recovered now, but i will definitely skate alot slower and stick close to the walls from here on out! im kind of scared of falling again and really messing myself up. hopefully by the end of the winter, i will be good on my skates again.:*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Hi Carolyn, Oh, no - so sorry to hear about your injury! I'm glad you're feeling better already. I like ice skating, even though I've only gone a handful of times in my life! I'm not real good on them, and am usually guaranteed at least one wipe out! But it's never been a serious fall, just some bumps and bruises. The mice ate my skates out in the garage, so I'll have to get some more if we decided to go again sometime. My DH is like yours - hadn't been on skates in years and years, but you'd never know it to see him skate. He's a good helper for me, though, LOL! Klutzy, Sara > > hi pinky! so sorry for this late reply... we did go skating as > a family a week ago (on friday the 5th). > it was ok, despite both dh and i not being on ice skates for, oh, > 35 years! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Ow! That's smarts, Cola Pop! I could totally see myself doing the exact same thing. Hope your noggin is feeling better now! We have ice here and you could probably skate on the streets if you wanted, though I doubt the surface would be flat and smoothe like a rink. I'm better on 4 wheel roller skates (I'm not good with Rollerblades) Hugs, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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