Rolling With The Cool Kids
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 09:26AM 
The new bladesAn Additive Adventure Entry In Conjunction With OutsideTV.com and Osprey Packs
It’s taken three months, but it’s happened. I was spotted. Rollerblading. It was just as awkward as it sounds. I was skating on 30th, or trying to skate amidst the gravel byproduct from recent construction. I rolled past a woman walking on the sidewalk and was just about to turn up my shuffle when her voice cut into my head.
“Majka?”
I’d like it to be known that I could I have run—skated—away. I have those skills. But I stopped and talked shop. Yes, I was rollerblading. Sarah was going to yoga. Did she ever blade? No. Want to? No. And so it went until we said goodbye and I took a hard left to hit the bike path. My new pink rollerblades are fast on the downhill and as I leaned back on my right brake I realized my opportunity. I could save the situation if I did something cool. But I didn’t know how to do anything cool on my skates, and so I just made sure not to fall....