Rollerblade more

I went rollerblading on Saturday morning. I got to the nearby rail trail at around 7:30 am. Near the trail there’s a parking lot to an open mall. I didn’t see any signs forbidding rollerblading or anything else for that matter, so I went skating in the lot instead of on the trail. I like skating in open places much more than along rail trails.

I haven’t been rollerblading in a long time, and it was pretty difficult to start; I was never very good at it to begin with. So I just spent the time practicing.

I learned to rollerblade in grad school, years ago. I was never expert at it, but I became pretty comfortable with it. The last time I rollerbladed was a few years ago, when I lived in Brooklyn. I would rollerblade around Prospect Park.

But now I live in suburbia, and it’s hard to find a place where there’s a lot of space to blade. There’s one place – a rail trail. But it’s so narrow, there’s no room to practice, you can only go straight on. I guess that’s better than nothing, though.

Maybe I can try this one morning this week, if I get up real early. We’ll see.