Got off work early and The Mighty LZA had said she’d prefer if I skate right after work instead of after dinner.  Happy to oblige I was going to meet John at the 28th & Iris ledges, but he had to bail so I went to the ballparks knowing there is a decent chance Jason would meet up there.  He ended up having to work though.  There is a bunch of construction going on at the mall behind the ballparks so they had the sidewalk behind the ledges closed.  Ugh.  I really like doing flatground lines to the ledges.  I went with the Broomfield “10 ledge tricks to get warmed up” theme.  Only problem is this ledge is twice as tall, chunky and the runway has lots of cracks.  I basically sucked.  Bad.  Crooks came easy again surprisingly though.  Well, crooks for a few inches that is.  Not the real deal where you lock in and grind.  I ended up getting ten tricks.  They were all basics.  Front noseslide to fakie (little if no slide), back noseslide, back noseslide to fakie, back crooks, back boardslide, front 50, front 50 front 180 out, back 50, halfcab back noseslide and lastly the one that took the longest, front 50 front shove out.  I was having problems with some weird truck shifting that felt like what Indy trucks do everytime you squat down.  I did force myself to try front 50s faster.  Sometimes I would, most the time I’d bail out and sometimes I’d just ride past the ledge laughing at how much I suck.  When it got dark I waxed up the ledge out front real good thinking it’s possible to boardslide around the bike rack.  Oh yeah, and I ollied the low part of the bike rack which took way too long.  Stupid cracks.  Five more days til 300.  I hope I make it because I’d really like to start resting my body a bit more and having more drive when I skate.

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