The Best Thing About Winter...SNOWBOARDING!
Even though I am not a huge fan of cold weather, there's one thing about it that keeps me tolerant of the winter: snowboarding. I discovered my love of snowboarding during high school ski club. My friends and I used to rent skis each time, but one time we decided it would be fun to give snowboarding a try. It was difficult at first, and I fell on my face quite a few times, but I eventually got the hang of it and it became my new favorite sport. I asked for a snowboard as a Christmas gift one year and was fortunate enough to get one from my grandma. Since then, I have loved going to different ski resorts whenever I get the chance, but since college, it has become much more difficult to find time to go, as opposed to when we would go once a week in high school. Luckily, my friends and I finally found a weekend to go! We decided to go this past Friday and with the benefit of not having Friday classes, we didn't have to pay the weekend rate and got to go before it was too busy. The conditions were perfect. It was pretty chilly, yet abundantly sunny. And it wasn't crowded at all. We literally never had to wait in line for the chair-lift, which is always impressive. And you know it's the best workout when the next day you feel sore all over. Either I just wasn't in shape or I worked out so well that it still made me sore...I just hope it was the latter...
Feb 22, 2009 11:17 PM
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