Feb 2, 2022·edited Feb 2, 2022Liked by Paul Flannery
Your experience with downhill skiing is the same as mine and it sounds like your anxiety around it is almost as high as mine. Not something I ever want to try again. My first time on downhill skis as someone old enough to know better was when I was about 13. My friend wanted to go skiing for her birthday and wanted to bring me along. She was born in Canada and learned to ski at a very young age...I spent my childhood breaking bones on skateboards and rollerskates. Needless to say, I fell pretty much every opportunity to. I fell off the lift, I fell on the hill, I fell at the bottom when I crashed because I was terrified and didn't know how to stop. Needless to say, I didn't go again.
Enter snowshoes...that's my speed and the level of control my anxiety can take.
I'm proud of you too, Paul. Your kid has it right.
I do not miss running on snow. Or walking. Or being around it. Glad it's you and not me.
semi-related: finally got my first new year, post-COVID run in this morning. Whew. Running is hard. Was it always this hard? I remember it being less hard
Your experience with downhill skiing is the same as mine and it sounds like your anxiety around it is almost as high as mine. Not something I ever want to try again. My first time on downhill skis as someone old enough to know better was when I was about 13. My friend wanted to go skiing for her birthday and wanted to bring me along. She was born in Canada and learned to ski at a very young age...I spent my childhood breaking bones on skateboards and rollerskates. Needless to say, I fell pretty much every opportunity to. I fell off the lift, I fell on the hill, I fell at the bottom when I crashed because I was terrified and didn't know how to stop. Needless to say, I didn't go again.
Enter snowshoes...that's my speed and the level of control my anxiety can take.
I'm proud of you too, Paul. Your kid has it right.
Oh my god, getting off lifts is excruciating. Thanks, Tracey. It was a fun day.
I do not miss running on snow. Or walking. Or being around it. Glad it's you and not me.
semi-related: finally got my first new year, post-COVID run in this morning. Whew. Running is hard. Was it always this hard? I remember it being less hard
Yes, but do you remember when we went snowboarding and I bagged it and sat in the car for two hours? Good times. Also: it gets easier. Stay patient.
I do. I spent the entire time in the kiddie snowboard park riding three foot rails. It's weird we never made it to the X Games.
Mystifying, really.