I bought some rollerblades last week. I wanted to try a different way of exercising other than the hiking. The day I got them, I played around for 20 minutes in the parking lot at work. Then on Saturday, I went for about one mile on a flat paved trail by the river. I looked extremely foolish, flopping around like a fish out of water. Dogs that passed by on leashes look at their masters with longing - emoting, "Hey! Look! That one's uncoordinated and sickly! Can I cull the herd please! Please can I cull the herd?"

I ended up with a one inch diameter blister on the inside of right foot. It was healing nicely up until this evening.

Tomorrow the forecast is calling for much lower temperatures and a great deal of precipitation, possibly in the form of snow, so this evening I went for a two mile skate. Still looking pathetic, but only one spill and i landed on some soft ground. Extremely tiring though. I saw other people on skates just breeze by me seemingly effortlessly. Maybe in a few weeks I'll look like that

So anyway, Saturday's blister hadn't quite finished healing. I had it band-aided underneath my sock, but for some reason it got worse. It used to be one inch; now it is two inches. It will burn for the next few days, but I figured getting outside and enjoying the weather made up for it.