Fifi Leigh
Wednesday, December 27, 2017, 1 pm
I recently noticed that The District had a new ice skating rink up for the holiday until the first two weeks of January 2018. It looks a little bit bigger than the temporary rink at Spectrum Center. And, The District is usually less crowded anyway because it is more of a community mall. I haven’t been ice skating in a long time because the regular ice skating rinks have closed down and demolished. The ice is too expensive to maintain. So, I like taking advantage for these temporary rinks during the holiday. I think I am a good skater for an amateur but I haven’t skated in a while. I took my own ice skates. The weather was warm in the daytime, and the ice was melting a little.
When I got on the ice, my knees locked. I guess I should have stretched. I was a little wobbly on the ice, as if I had forgotten how to skate, but I didn’t forget. I was just rusty because of lack of skating. When I fell on the ice, it was hard to get up. I remember in my 20s, I just glided back up like the figure skaters on TV. I was probably a lot thinner in my 20s. I skated until 5:30 pm because I was starting to get tired and a little bit hungry. I will probably be sore in the morning because I haven’t skated in a while. But from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm, I was warmed up and skating better than when I got on the ice at 1:30 pm. It is like my skiing. I need to warm up on the first day, doing warm-up exercises and practicing skiing or ice skating moves. Then, the next day, I ski or skate better because my legs are more relaxed and used to the ice. I plan to ice skate again in the new year before they take it down.
It is one of my pastimes that I like to do for fun, once in a while during the wintertime.
I added a snapshot of my IMVU avatar ice skating by her coffee shop.
You have spent a wonderful day
i want to do it again for the new year, maybe sometime during the first week of january before they take down the rink.