Hiring Skates

You know what sucks? Turning up to skate practice & spending the first 15 mins careering all over the track, falling over & not being able to pull off any of the moves you could just 2 days ago. You spend half the time trying to readjust your feet to ankle boots instead of low anlkes, wheels that are too tight or lose (or worse, a random mixture of the two - ever tried to skate on boots that drift left? It's not easy!) or most commonly - someone else's broken in 2nds that dig in to your feet in unusual & imaginative way.

All this is why I cannot cannot wait for my skates to arrive.