Like Riding a Bike Except Way More Slippery
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 4:56 pm
Hello out there!
I'm back on skis again after a 3-year hiatus. I'm an "older gentleman" who got into tele late in life. I won't tax you with the details of the challenges of these last three years. Suffice to say I had some serious doubts about the place of tele and some other activities in my future. Nonetheless, I decided to give it a go again at Mont Tremblant, the place where in 2015 my son and I first experimented with tele turns on DIY crap skis and bindings and leather boots salvaged from thrift shops. After that first year I spent the next 4 winters skiing tele south of the border and loving it. Then, almost overnight, that chapter ended.
Anyway, I'm back again in Quebec and, for sure, my old Garmont Synergys are looking a little worse for wear. Me, too. Okay, a lot worse for wear...
Drum role, please...
First run:
My old body remembered exactly what it had to do! Came back really quick! Muscles were killing me, of course. 7 ski-days later my legs are getting stronger. I am ecstatic that I can still do it. And not way worse than 3 years ago. And loving it almost like before.
Maybe this story will give some hope or, failing that, maybe a chuckle to somebody out there...
I'm back on skis again after a 3-year hiatus. I'm an "older gentleman" who got into tele late in life. I won't tax you with the details of the challenges of these last three years. Suffice to say I had some serious doubts about the place of tele and some other activities in my future. Nonetheless, I decided to give it a go again at Mont Tremblant, the place where in 2015 my son and I first experimented with tele turns on DIY crap skis and bindings and leather boots salvaged from thrift shops. After that first year I spent the next 4 winters skiing tele south of the border and loving it. Then, almost overnight, that chapter ended.
Anyway, I'm back again in Quebec and, for sure, my old Garmont Synergys are looking a little worse for wear. Me, too. Okay, a lot worse for wear...
Drum role, please...
First run:
My old body remembered exactly what it had to do! Came back really quick! Muscles were killing me, of course. 7 ski-days later my legs are getting stronger. I am ecstatic that I can still do it. And not way worse than 3 years ago. And loving it almost like before.
Maybe this story will give some hope or, failing that, maybe a chuckle to somebody out there...