learn how to skate ski

Also! When you start to get it and you do it correctly, it feels so amazing!! I could get addicted to the feeling of doing it right.

“It is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
[...and how fast we get there!—BEEM]

OK! Tried it!

Got up and headed up to the pass.

The lesson was pretty good. In one way skating is harder than I though. The movements are really small, which I did not expect. It is a lot about momentum created through good technique.
It is also pretty hard unless it is flat (even going up a little hill is hard.

But it was fun! I did not get a great cardio workout, because it was hard to get going. But I am going to be sore! The way you turn your legs out makes you work ODD muscle groups! Weeeeeeeee!

The ski place was having a sale, and I ended up buying some used skate skis. Usually expensive. These are in good shape, and I guess are high end racing skate skis, which would normally be $350. I got them for $30! woah.

All in all a great day in the snow. I’m dying to get back up again and do both classic and skate. I really want to get good at skating!!

Trying skate skiing tomorrow

going up to the pass near my house and taking a lesson, then booking around (hopefully) for a while.

I’m excited!

BEEM

going to a ski club session tonight

plan to go the the mts this weekend and take a skate ski lesson

I found an open house about this in February. ;)

Last year I learned some down hill.

The year before, I focused a lot on Cross Country. Got good enough to do black runs and really had some great days. I even skated a bit in my regular skis.

This year I want to try skate skiing—at least go up and rent some skis and take some lessons. They really fly! woohoooo!