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To San Frannie - love your answer below on aging sm

Posted: Feb 16, 2010

I am 42 and have been wondering if the good years are over. I love to rollerblade but have hardly done it in the last few years...you just motivated me, thanks :)

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Thanks! Glad you liked it! - sm - SanFrannie

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If you're 42, you're just a KID! (42 is the new 22, you know...)

Taking up inline skating was the best thing I ever did. Great exercise, low-impact, and best of all, CHEAP. All you need are your skates, and you can go just about anywhere. Met most of my current friends through skating. Inline skating led to also doing roller skating on "quad" skates, and then to roller disco. (Yes, RD can still be found here and there!) Once you're proficient, some of the larger towns or cities have group skates, often at night after most of the traffic is gone. San Francisco's Friday Night Skate is the original... first in the world. It started after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the Embarcadero freeway enough that it had to be torn down. While it sat empty for many months, someone got the idea that it would be fun to sneak up there and skate on it around midnight; thus, the "Midnight Rollers" were born. The current group skate goes through the city, up and down hills, thru tunnels, etc. There is also a very small one Tuesday nights in Tiburon in the north bay. Los Angeles has a Fri. nite skate, too. The largest is in Paris, with a police escort and something like 20,000 participants. Also London, and other cities of the world. The big thing now is "freestyle" (skating patterns around little cones). We even have a woman from England, Naomi Gregg, come to SF every year to give a clinic on it. San Francisco has great places to inline skate: The wide sidewalk along the Embarcadero on the waterfront, the Marina Green and Ft. Mason Park, and best of all, Golden Gate Park, which has several wide, smooth streets closed off to cars on Sundays and Holidays (Sat's. too, in the summer). Every Sun. afternoon we do outdoor roller disco at 6th Ave. SF also has a new program called "Sunday Streets" (patterned after a VERY successful model in Bogota, Colombia), where they close of several streets in different areas of the city on different weekends to cars from about 10 AM to 3 PM, and the street becomes "recreational asphalt", for skaters, bikers, joggers, walkers, etc. It's been so popular with citizens and merchants alike, that SF has expanded the program from 3 Sundays 2 years ago, to 6 last year, to 9 this year. There are also different activity "pods" within the closure: Salsa dancing lessons, hoola-hooping, skating lessons, yoga, Tai Chi, etc. Even kayaking on the Sundays when the event is held on the Embarcadero. Next time I go, I'm planning on doing the Salsa dancing.

Anyway, I'm glad you're thinking about taking up skating again. You're never too "old".... I have a friend in her 70s who's had heart surgery and a hip replacement, and she skates more now than ever. (Not as fast or as hard, but she still does it, and that's what counts.)

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