At last...

I got up this morning at 5:30 to get out to Venice. It's been about a week since the last time I skated, and I was quite excited to be able to get out on my board again. Unfortunately, Venice was a little like an obstacle course this morning. There was trash everywhere, trash trucks coming around, pigeons feasting on the trash and a small street sweeper. Not exactly ideal conditions.

I also found that I was making a lot of mistakes that I wasn't making before I left. It's as if I'd forgotten, some of the basics, like the feel of where my back foot should go on the board. There were a few times I nearly fell because my feet were right next to each other.

I didn't even work on kick turns today because I figured that was just asking for trouble. I already feel once today, when I was trying to dodge the sweeper and a man with a hose who was watering rather indiscriminately. I sloshed through the water, put my foot down on the board and had it slip out from under me. My board went sailing into a doorway. I wonder if it's possible to break my board. I'm a little worried that it's taking a lot of damage.