I bought skates today. I spent more than I wanted to. After two hours of skating, there are actual bruises on my legs from the top of the skates. They don't hurt my feet though and there's a lot to be said for that! I managed to skate for almost two hours before my legs hurt enough that I wanted to stop. With normal rental skates I managed to last two goes around the rink before I was ready to hobble to the sidelines.
I have to wear the skates 12 more times to come out ahead on their purchase.
I think that's the biggest news from today, other than I had an all around terribly lovely day from the banana pancake start to a white hot chocolate finish.
I love that, "white hot chocolate", very vivid.
ReplyDeleteThose bruises are your Figure Skating badge of honor! Congrats!!
ReplyDeleteI cut up my ankles breaking in my new skates, and the scars lasted for awhile, but I didn't even care because I figured it meant I was finally a real figure skater.