Rollerblading = fun, especially by the river
June 6th, 2006
Tonight, after all the weighing in and talking of exercise, I decided to take a leisurely rollerblade ride down one of the many paths we have in b-e-a-utiful Calgary. If there was only one type of exercise I could do for the rest of my life, rollerblading would be it. The path I chose was one close to my house — weird how that works out eh — which just so happens to be very close to the South Saskatchewan river.
Because of some prodding by Chris and Colin, I’m testing out Calorie King’s Nutrition and Exercise Manager (Windows version here). The king suggests I do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day so I anticipated a 15 minutes out, 15 minutes back type of trip.
Ooooh boy was I a little off. Sure the ride was great. The path wasn’t too crowded and the weather was just gorgeous but man alive, I forgot to figure in the fact that after 15 minutes of rollerblading I’m going tie–erd — there was also the miscalculation of the wind by the river, it’s a little stronger there than it is amongst the sky-scrapers.
All-in-all I was out for 35 minutes going non-stop — the total trip ended up taking about an hour. Since I was out an about I stopped by Safeway to pick up some crackers for my soup dinner tonight — mmmm, gonna be gooooooo–oood. Now you all know why I’m going to be offline at 10:30pm.
June 7th, 2006 at 4:57 am
I wish I could rollerblade. I suppose buying rollerblades would be step 1.
June 7th, 2006 at 5:39 am
where’s the pictures of rollerblades and spandex? The Spandex is the only thing keeping me from rollerbladeing
June 7th, 2006 at 5:57 am
@Colin: Yes, that would help a lot.
@Peter: Spandex? What spandex? What kind of rollerblading are you watching?
June 7th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
All rollerbladers wear spandex. View yourself in a week!
June 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
No, just gay rollerbladers like that guy wear spandex. Mike doesn’t do spandex.
June 8th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
I have some pictures of spandex-ed Micheal if anyone wants to see them… also Micheal just don’t crash into any walls :p
June 9th, 2006 at 7:39 am
C’mon now, be honest, they aren’t spandex, just tighter clothes than the average bear would wear. It’s a little hard to crash into walls when I’m on a path by the river but I’ll watch out for them.