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Ski Diva Extraordinaire
Yay. I went skiing on Saturday. It was good. It was bitter cold. I actually managed to get a real "ouchie" while skiing.
We went to Cranmore - the mountain I learned at - which was kinda neat. The snow conditions were great, make that awesome, for mid December but not "february conditions" as they'd have you believe. So I'm going along and my skiing instincts come back quicker than ever and all is mostly good. then we're going down the same trail my husband fell off the year I learned. I somehow get screwed up and I can feel I'm going to fall but I really believe I can recover so I don't just let myself fall - mistake and I do know better - so I try to recover and fail. I end up with my skis buried part under me in deep snow off the edge of the trail, semi upside down (thankfully I wear a helmet)... I can feel that I've actually pissed off my left knee...so finally get my feet/skis lose and straight up in the air above me and use the poles that I've somehow retained in my hands throughout the fall to pop my bindings. I then get myself back upright and toss my skis and poles back up onto the trail so I can pull/crawl my way out. That was a scarey fall... I ski timidly down the rest of the run to catch up to my husband who was skiing in front when I took my spill.
The bad part is my left knee still hurts when I do certain things, but only a very few certain things which disturbs me. My own (non-professional evaluation) tells me I probably sprained one of the tendons. It doesnt hurt at all to ski, only with really deep (I mean full squat) knee bends does it hurt both down and up at the bottom. But I don't have a loss of stability and no pain/weakness with most bending. Even with the painful time I don't seem to have any weakness, so I'm hoping it's the mild sprain I think it is and that given a week or so all will be fine.
However after my spill I got my mojo back and started charging down the hill (not the same one I fell on) and I was carving and flying - my husband who's current skis are a bit short (he was misadvised when he bought them) and in need of a wax but is bigger and used to be much faster than me - couldn't keep up with me, so even with the pain (and the skiing posture doesn't hurt me at all) I had a big grin on my face. I was so happy to be skiing. And I was excited that my skills came right back to where I left off last year (other than the fall).
So now if some other matters in my life will get settled I'm looking forward to skiing again in 2 weeks.
We went to Cranmore - the mountain I learned at - which was kinda neat. The snow conditions were great, make that awesome, for mid December but not "february conditions" as they'd have you believe. So I'm going along and my skiing instincts come back quicker than ever and all is mostly good. then we're going down the same trail my husband fell off the year I learned. I somehow get screwed up and I can feel I'm going to fall but I really believe I can recover so I don't just let myself fall - mistake and I do know better - so I try to recover and fail. I end up with my skis buried part under me in deep snow off the edge of the trail, semi upside down (thankfully I wear a helmet)... I can feel that I've actually pissed off my left knee...so finally get my feet/skis lose and straight up in the air above me and use the poles that I've somehow retained in my hands throughout the fall to pop my bindings. I then get myself back upright and toss my skis and poles back up onto the trail so I can pull/crawl my way out. That was a scarey fall... I ski timidly down the rest of the run to catch up to my husband who was skiing in front when I took my spill.
The bad part is my left knee still hurts when I do certain things, but only a very few certain things which disturbs me. My own (non-professional evaluation) tells me I probably sprained one of the tendons. It doesnt hurt at all to ski, only with really deep (I mean full squat) knee bends does it hurt both down and up at the bottom. But I don't have a loss of stability and no pain/weakness with most bending. Even with the painful time I don't seem to have any weakness, so I'm hoping it's the mild sprain I think it is and that given a week or so all will be fine.
However after my spill I got my mojo back and started charging down the hill (not the same one I fell on) and I was carving and flying - my husband who's current skis are a bit short (he was misadvised when he bought them) and in need of a wax but is bigger and used to be much faster than me - couldn't keep up with me, so even with the pain (and the skiing posture doesn't hurt me at all) I had a big grin on my face. I was so happy to be skiing. And I was excited that my skills came right back to where I left off last year (other than the fall).
So now if some other matters in my life will get settled I'm looking forward to skiing again in 2 weeks.
