Running-with-wheels-on-your-shoes.
Today, I had a rather an odd experience. My friends have been telling me I need to embrace more of what they call a “modern life”. I tend to find that the Viking way works best, but for once I decided to embrace what they were offering and try something. I must impress upon you that these things only tend to happen after we’ve sunk a few flagons of mead apiece, but for some reason this discussion/debate/drunken bet stuck with me and today I found myself being instructed by my good friend in the art of what he calls roller-skating. I have decided to call it running-with-wheels-on-your-shoes. Roller skating sounds rather modern, and I find my name for it more descriptive.
Enough of an introduction. It’s time to start really running-with-wheels-on-our-shoes.
Needless to say this was not the most straightforward of exercises. I had to put on the special shoes (with the wheels on) and then try and stand up and run. It’s not really like running at all, it turns out, but the end result is the same - you get somewhere faster than walking, and a bit out of breath.
That said, there are many shortfalls (and some quite painful ones, too, but we’ll skip over those. Let’s just say I was lucky I had my helmet on.) Number one - you can’t stop. Number 2 - it’s dreadful on anything but the smoothest surfaces. Number 2b - it’s USELESS on grass Number 3 - you have to carry your shoes with you in case you need to do anything when you get where you’re going.
My verdict? A waste of time. Seriously. Just run. Ever tried carrying a 6ft sword while using shoes-with-wheels-on? Not worth it. Especially when you have to carry your saucony running shoes too.
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