Today I went for a ski. For the first time of my life, although I have been living in this northern part of China for over 8 years, it's never occurred to me to go skiing for once.This time my girlfriend, who has done it for some times, brought it up and we went!
But hell today was a damn cold day for any outdoor activities. It was like 18 below zero when we started out. And when we reached the skiing ranch, or whatever it should be called, it was still so damn cold that although it's a Saturday, there was so few people put there skiing.
Anyways. First time skiing and I was bond to fall, big time. I am never good at sports, at least not at first. So lots of falling on my butt, at least 10 times for that 3 or 4 hours in the snow. Problem is, I though I can do this on my own, or with the help from my girlfriend, but I could hardly slow myself when I was already facing a pretty steep slop ( steep for me of course ). And. There were kids on that lane for God sake. I never can figure out why, there are kids of 5 or 6 on a lane full of people like me with little knowledge of what snow skiing is, speeding at about 40 km per hour. Anyways I quickly learned through some hard lessons of how to slow myself down and change directions.
The rest of the day was spent on those, narrow, slow, often stopping because so many people were trying to stand on it, kind of conveying belt. Let's say 10 minutes on the belt and 30 secs on the snow would be accurate enough.
At about 2:30 pm I was exhausted. Fully. And called it a day. On the way back my appetite was back and had a nice early dinner and now my legs are, well, they are still there but the feelings coming from them are not that conformable.
But skiing is fun. I like it. Hope in the future I could enjoy more of it and learn more. Maybe after a while I will go skiing some more, if I have the time haha.
But hell today was a damn cold day for any outdoor activities. It was like 18 below zero when we started out. And when we reached the skiing ranch, or whatever it should be called, it was still so damn cold that although it's a Saturday, there was so few people put there skiing.
Anyways. First time skiing and I was bond to fall, big time. I am never good at sports, at least not at first. So lots of falling on my butt, at least 10 times for that 3 or 4 hours in the snow. Problem is, I though I can do this on my own, or with the help from my girlfriend, but I could hardly slow myself when I was already facing a pretty steep slop ( steep for me of course ). And. There were kids on that lane for God sake. I never can figure out why, there are kids of 5 or 6 on a lane full of people like me with little knowledge of what snow skiing is, speeding at about 40 km per hour. Anyways I quickly learned through some hard lessons of how to slow myself down and change directions.
The rest of the day was spent on those, narrow, slow, often stopping because so many people were trying to stand on it, kind of conveying belt. Let's say 10 minutes on the belt and 30 secs on the snow would be accurate enough.
At about 2:30 pm I was exhausted. Fully. And called it a day. On the way back my appetite was back and had a nice early dinner and now my legs are, well, they are still there but the feelings coming from them are not that conformable.
But skiing is fun. I like it. Hope in the future I could enjoy more of it and learn more. Maybe after a while I will go skiing some more, if I have the time haha.
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