There are multiple stories to tell about my #InlineSkating session Monday night, including a 911 call. But can I just say it was a blast doing some circuits back and forth on the newly resurfaced block of 42nd St btw Sixth Ave and Seventh Ave? Only possible because #NYCDOT or their contractors had closed off 42nd east of Sixth for more resurfacing.
Yes, things are terrible right now. Minor stuff like this and and bigger stuff like watching the Artemis II feed keep me from sinking into despair
Leute ... ich war draussen. Also wirklich draussen. Nicht nur kurz frische Luft schnappen, ich war ausserhalb der Stadt unterwegs 🫢
Wir wollten den Frühling standesgemäss begrüssen. Inlineskates an, ab auf diese wunderschöne Strecke extra für Skates & Velos. Natur, Sonne, alles perfekt ... dachte ich.
Aber ihr Lieben, da draussen hängen Plakate 😱
Und zwar solche mit „Stoppt die Manipulation durch den ÖRR“ oder „Bewahren, was wir lieben, Ja zur Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative“. Klingt harmlos? Ist es nicht. Dahinter steckt einfach nur Zuwanderungsstopp, verpackt als „Nachhaltigkeit“. Purer Fremdenhass im Frühlingsgewand. Ekelhaft.
War dann doch ziemlich froh, wieder zurück in meiner stabilen, woken Stadt zu sein. ❤️ 
ABER, ein Highlight gab’s 🥹
Wir haben Baby-Biber in einem Bach entdeckt 🤩 🥰
Natur 1, Menschen 0.
Out #InlineSkating this week, and again encountered cases that showed that #NYC DOT's delays for this or that during street resurfacing are complete BS. They've claimed that after milling, they couldn't lay down new asphalt for a few weeks in order to give utilities time to dive in and do some work. And then after the new asphalt went down, it had to 'cure' before new lane markings were striped.
Well, I've seen what's happened to Avenue A this spring, and all I have to say is hah, hah, and hah.
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And we're off!
All three regular weekly #InlineSkating #GroupSkate events in the #NYC metro area are now rolling for 2026.
Monday night the We Skate NJ group rolled the shoreline on the west side of the Hudson.
The next night, Empire's Tuesday Night Skate went nuts and rolled to Yonkers (OMG!) and back.
And then the NYC Wednesday Night Skate officially launched their season, posting up a short one of about 12 miles to Central Park and back before the impending rain.
Turns out I already have another progress report on my single-minded pursuit of learning to skate as well as my body can cope with. Yay!
Miraculously, we were able to make all the schedules line up twice this weekend to get to an ice rink vaguely in our area. I was so excited to try out these blades, and particularly to find out what it’s like ice skating in my inline boots. I learned that yes, these boots are just as comfortable on the ice as on pavement. Which I had predicted, but it’s nice to experience the reality of it. It took about 2.5 hours of continuous skating for my feet to start noticing they had stuff strapped to them and maybe not liking it so much. But the last half hour of that session was only somewhat uncomfy, not enough for me to decide to give up the last bit of what I expected to be the only ice time I’d get for a while.
I’m a beginner ice skater, so I don’t know how to compare the experience of these blades to ‘normal’ ice skates. They are sharper than the other blades I’ve skated on, I can tell you that, and it was very helpful having real grip and real edges to work with.
I did notice a ‘wobbly feeling’ at the front when gliding, like the blades were trying to steer my toes side to side. I found that I was able to cope with/overcome it, but I’m not sure what was causing it. My (lack of) balance? The position of the blades relative to my feet? The profile of the blade rocker? The novel experience of having blades that actually grip the ice? Unclear. It happened both before and after some blade adjustments to try to get the optimal positioning, and more experimentation will be needed.
Overall, it was awesome. I was finally able to get my one foot glides going. I’m proud of myself for getting to the point where I get to decide when to put my free leg down, rather than inevitably losing my balance and having to put it down whether I want to or not. I was also able to add backwards wiggles to my repertoire of backwards lemons and C-cuts. That sounds so simple when I type it out, but required an entire 1.5 hours of practice in reality. 😆 My body just took that long to get itself organized to generate momentum and find the line between Grippy Blade and Slippy Blade in that movement.
That added up to 4.5 hours on the ice, between two sessions separated by a full rest day. That was a lot of movement for me, and although I am still very tired I don’t seem to have injured anything. I made sure to rehydrate and eat, tape my back to keep it from going haywire, and spent a lot of time lying down resting afterward. There was also a hot shower in the middle there, and some gentle movement during the rest days to make sure I didn’t just get frozen into a sore pretzel. And it worked.
Astounding. I only had a minor headache for a few hours after each session, which faded without becoming a 24 hour misery, too.
We’ll see whether my next session is on ice or sidewalks. Hard to know, with the spring weather being the way it is. I’m looking forward to finding out how this practice soaked into my brain next time, either way.
#skating #inlineskating #iceskating #figureskating #learntoskate #icerink #powerslide #adultplay #recoveryprogress #burnout #recovery
It's late March, and #NYC skaters are easing into the new #InlineSkating season.
Empire Speed have rolled a couple Sunday sessions on the Prospect Park loop, but they always start early. In a few weeks they'll also be training on the CP loop on Thursday evening.
For the rest of us, it's just a week to the first Wednesday Night Skate of 2026.
The NJ Monday Night Skate will also start soon, although they rolled a pre-season event a few weeks ago when the weather was fine.
I went inline skating 
good thing there is stabilization in modern cameras. The asphalt on the dikes is very smooth and really pleasant to skate on.
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