Ice skating hurts. I don't remember it being that painful! Or that wobbly. But I think I haven't skated since college or, at best, shortly thereafter. It took me a while to get the hang of it and I had to re-lace my skates a few times but it wasn't bad after that. I skated pretty hard for at least an hour and a half of two hours -- once I remembered how to skate I remembered that I like to go a lot faster than most people -- and when I came home I learned I'd burned about 600 calories in the process. And I didn't fall down until the very end, and the first time was because I was asking Mary if she could hop on both feet on the ice, and it turned out I can't. The second was right after that as I escorted Xander to the exit and he fell down, taking me with him. But still, I should go skating more often. Except we only have a rink when they convert the civic center for hockey games.
Last night we had Daniel's poker party with lots of bad food around. I definitely had too much, but even so my total intake for the day was around 1800! With the skating -- and on a day when I wouldn't usually exercise at all -- I still came out about right. :-) (That was pure coincidence, though -- after multiple drinks I wasn't counting food calories too carefully; I was just too busy. So most of the calories were the drinks.)
Today I woke up very, very sore. Walking is painful -- skating really uses your quads. And my right ankle is bruised because of the painful skate that I'd had to re-lace! But I've been using "MyPlate" to track calories the last three days -- unlike Nutrition Data it has a lot of brand names in its database, though it's not as rigorous, and it can store my data from one day to the next -- and it has an exercise section on the calories entry page, and it looked very forlorn today. So I took the kids on a bike ride (gorgeous day) and discovered that bicycling uses completely different muscles from skating, so it didn't hurt! It was only 4-5 miles total, but it was better than nothing.
My weight was down this morning but I was dehydrated so it's not real yet. But I would love to see the same number sometime this week!
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Yup, I have no idea why or how ice skating came to me so easily when I was in high school but is so nearly impossible now! I've only gone a few times in the past ten years, but each time I'm reminded of how weak my ankles are, how bad my balance is, and how little used a lot of my muscles are! I'm impressed that you got in such a good workout--every time I've gone with Claire I spend the time inching around the ice with her so I never get going very fast. And all the other people on the ice make me nervous (another difference from high school) so even when I do break away from her I don't get moving quickly at all.
For the first 45 minutes the kids were in a "learn to skate" class, during which time I re-learned how to skate and took off. Then they skated separately for the rest of the time, for the most part, so I'd skate up to one, keep them company for about five seconds, until it was clear that my help would be mostly a nuisance to them, and I'd zip on to the other one. So that kept me on the move the whole time. Anytime I slowed down I was seriously sweaty. A lot of the people *did* make me nervous, especially the little hockey snots, but most of the adults were worse than I am, or at least at my same level, and I could emerge from a traffic jam pretty much unscathed.
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