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December 21, 2006
(Re)learning to ice skate
I grew up in North Dakota where there's plenty of winter-time to enjoy. Since there aren't mountains there's not a lot of downhill skiing, 
but there's plenty of other winter sports (cross-country skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing, ice fishing, sledding, snowmobiling, etc). We could do a lot of these without having to go far (a block or two at most), so we were outside a few times a week for 3-4 months a year, mostly sledding and skating.
Salt Lake doesn't have much of a winter (getting to love that), but there's quite a few ice rinks and hockey is fairly popular. A few weeks ago the kids started skating lessons at the Olympic Speedskating Oval (will be quite a few more lessons before they're speed-skating), and got me thinking about skating again. I picked up the hockey skates I'd always wanted as a kid, and tested my skating muscles' memory.
Apparently skating is like riding a bike, because it only took 30 minutes until I was skating only slightly worse than I last did 20 years ago (which isn't anything spectacular but enough to keep me on my feet). Skating on (specially-constructed and -controlled) Olympic ice in a heated building is definitely an improvement over the rock-hard ponds, streams and rivers I used to skate on. Should make it easy to enjoy skating even more than I used to.
Posted by pete at December 21, 2006 2:51 PM