{"id":3391,"date":"2017-12-11T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2017-12-11T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:30:09","slug":"returning-to-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/returning-to-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"returning to the ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3403\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3403 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?w=1680 1680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_6305.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behind the glass wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday I went speedskating for the first time in over four years, this time with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norcalspeedskating.org\/\">Northern California Speedskating Association<\/a>. I wore my long-track skates with huge ankle supports (the mark of a noob) and fell on my knees twice within two minutes. I forgot how sore the lower back gets after several laps, and I forgot how to turn left without tripping over myself when crossing my legs. At least I can still go straight.<\/p>\n<p>My plan was to keep a low profile and fail privately, but Margaret skates up to me and says, &#8220;Hey, you&#8217;re new here!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Call it an exercise in humility: getting schooled by kids less than half my age. There wasn&#8217;t much hiding I could do inside a borrowed ice hockey rink anyway.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Speedskating is still considered a bit of a fringe sport in the United States. Will it ever reach the mainstream in my lifetime? I&#8217;d be thrilled if it did.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the only person in their early 20s at practice for now. Odd, because I thought going\u00a0fast on ice would be a great outlet for all the other anxious twenty-somethings in the Bay Area. Most of the club members present are either half my age or 50 years and older\u00a0&#8212; and still\u00a0trying to beat the national and state records for their age group.<\/p>\n<p>(and they have a good shot at it, too)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went speedskating for the first time in over four years, this time with the Northern California Speedskating Association. I wore my long-track skates with huge ankle supports (the mark of a noob) and fell on my knees twice within two minutes. I forgot how sore the lower back gets after several laps, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/returning-to-the-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;returning to the ice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-SH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}