Roller Blading

[Madonna]

I just got a new pair of roller blades over the weekend and tried them out on Sunday. They are so much fun! I went to the local park and they have a nice path there. I had a great time and got some really good exercise. I get bored doing the same stuff all the time. Do any of you roller blade?


Madonna

 

[naughtoj]

I DO!! I DO!!!

And I LOVE it!! I am currently waiting on a brand new pair of skates to arrive, SALOMON TR MAG ELITE 3 womens!!! These are high end fitness skates gauranteed to make me fly!! They are on back order and I have been waiting forever! Rollerblading will give you buns of steel if you do it often and hard enough. Remember to squat low and push out with your legs. What kind of skates did you get?? Try skating on asphalt instead, it has better traction and you can really get going. Also seems like it works your muscles harder.

I have a TIMEX Speed and Distance system (it's a watch) that even tells me how far and how fast I skate. That is really NEAT!! The fastest I have been able to go with my K2 Mod 8's is 19.5 MPH. I just can't break 20 yet...maybe with the new ones!! I am not very good at stopping though....one day I will learn...LOL!!!

Keep on rollin'
Janice

 

[Nadine]

I used to years ago and really loved it!! But then in a PMS fit(don't ever try to stop a woman in a PMS fit!!) I decided to go blading at night stupid I know but I DID have a flash light ;-) and I was padded up the whazoo! Helmet, wrist guards, elbow and knee pads. Well I tripped once on a crooked sidewalk but recovered just in time to trip worse on the next crack and elegantly stopped my fall with my face! So the padding/helmet did me no good!

I gouged a chunk out of my chin and almost broke my cheekbone. I got 3 stitches (and a permanent scar) on my chin and I had the coolest black eye for about a week !

The worst part was I had to skate home, bleeding and crying all the way, and NO ONE heard me! At the hospital I was so afraid that they would think my husband did it, but they were cool about it. The doctor and I were even compairing previous roller-blade scars while my husband sat there saying "uh could you please quit gabbing and just stitch her up. "

After I was all healed I went out again (in the day time!) and of course fell again and skinned my knee. That was when we decided that I am too clutzy for blading.

I'll be wistfully thinking of you guys soaring out there. There is no feeling like the wind in your hair while you glide along.
Nadine

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[mogambo]

I am just now learning! I found my 18-yr old daughter's skates in her car when I started the engine to drive it a bit for her. She's gone to the Southwest on a NOLS trip (it's like Outward Bound) from Feb 1 to May 1.
We have the same shoe size and I thought. "Hmmm. I should probably try this."
It's scary but fun. I've been out on the sidewalk twice, moving from feeble-wobbling the first day to wobble-scooting the second day. I'll go out again today. A friend gave me some tips on turning and stopping. Soon I hope to be zooming along like a middle-aged moron, enjoying the outdoors with less impact than running.
Here in NC it's too dang hot 6 months of the year for running and I like to be outside.

 

[Jenne]

Me! I love it! I love anything that involves strapping wheels or sticks to my feet and going fast. I have a pair of K-2 Camanos, and I think for adults, it's important to get a good pair of skates.

I look like a total dork- I'm clumsy and injury prone, plus I don't think I've skated hard enough unless I come home with a bruise, so I wear ALL of the safety gear.

 

[julin]

I blade, too. My DH and I go out about once a week and blade about 15-20 miles round-trip. There's a bike trail near my home, so we don't have to deal with oncoming traffic. I look like a dork, too, but since I'm 45 and way past caring what others think, I get out and enjoy myself!

Juli

 

[JMFRANE]

I love roller blading too! Now that the nice weather is here (I live in Minnesota) it will be great to get outside again. We have roller blading in the Metro Dome all winter long but it is not as much fun as being outside.

Joanne

 

[Connie1]

I roller blade! I have a pair of old Roller blade Spirit Blades. They are in fine working order and they have the advanced braking system, which is a more intuitive way to stop (you just lower your calf down instead of lifting up with your toes).

My wheels are not so free that I can go super fast, but maybe I'm safer that way, and have to work harder, I don't know. My regular route is about an hour and fifteen minutes round trip. I think it's 9 miles but I'm not sure. I go from Walnut Creek through Alamo to Danville and back (this is in Northern Cal on the Ironhorse Trail). It's a great paved trail that's pretty flat and crosses streets infrequently, so you can get going quite fast between intersections.

 

[fitone247]

I do too Madonna and I love it! I learned how last year when I turned 43. My eight year old daughter is a little dynamo on hers and I really wanted to do this with her. She actually taught me how! There is an old "abandoned" tennis court at a local school that I learned on.

Now we also go blading at the local roller rink and I have chaperoned at some roller blading field trips sponsored by her school. As corny as this sounds I love being "one of those cool moms" who can do stuff with her kid like roller blade!

Deb

 

[mkunkel]

I got some rollerblades so I could do that with my 10-year old daughter. It's fun, as long as I don't have to stop. I hate stopping, whenever I try to stop I feel like I'm going to fall. I prefer to run into things to stop. Oh, and speedbumps...those scare me too.