Had a lot of trouble sleeping and some alarm off in the distance of a neighbors house was waking me up.  So I went to Golden.  I was the first one there, but only by a matter of minutes.  A few people showed up after that, but it didn’t get crowded at all.  I was really struggling to wake up and kind of just rolled around the park for awhile trying to get warmed up.  I did 10 tricks on the micro quarterpipe.  Nothing of note.  Then wandered around for a while again.  Did a couple little noseslides, crooks, ollies on hips, etc.  Tried nose manuals on the little pad for a bit and failed.  Also struggled to front 50 one of the smaller benches over there.  Did some noseslides and crooks on the taller ledge.  Had a couple kickflips and a first try fakie bigflip.  Tyler randomly showed up.  That was awesome seeing him.  He looked good and after a quick catch up I got to see him warm up with some solid ripping.  I came close to a line of crooks the tall bench, wallie the corner of the wallie thing, kickflip the a frame.  Also almost kickflip on flat, noseslide down the hubba, kickturn then 360 flip out of the little bump.  Tyler tried to get my back with front shove back 50 down the hubba, but his bail was probably cooler than a make any way.  Seriously ruled seeing Tyler.  I wasn’t even too late for work.

Then early in the evening I was all caught up with work so I went to the garage for the last hour.  It was hot in there, but oh well.  I went right into switch flips because warming up hucking is less disappointing.  There were a few that were so close.  I committed, but when I commit it just doesn’t flip as fast.  Still, it felt like progress.  Then i took a bit to get a kickflip, a bit to get a backside flip, then a second try heelflip.  Followed by a fakie heel battle for a bit.   I ended up getting a few of them.   Hucked fakie hardflip reverts for a bit which somehow felt doable, but I was never close.  Took a bit to get a halfcab heel then gave myself the last 5 minutes to get a treflip (I was happy to get one somewhat quick for me). 

(setup 8.25 null archway deck, jessup ultragrip, venture 5.2 custom hollow AWAKE lows, bones hard bushings, 51mm spitfire 101a F4 classic shape, 3 washers inside each axle, new balance numeric 212 b/w/yellow size 12, nike sb zoom air insoles)
(pain level 3/10 with the nike insoles i had less knee pain)  

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