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Old July 22nd 03, 04:38 AM
Art
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Hoping that someone on this newsgroup can help me with rollerblading.

I've started rollerblading (acutally I'd rather cycle but my wife likes
rollerblading) and after I've gone about a mile or two my arch starts to
hurt. I've tried an arch support purchased from the local pharmacy. Anyone
been able to deal with this successfully?


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Old July 22nd 03, 03:43 PM
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Art wrote:
: Hoping that someone on this newsgroup can help me with rollerblading.

: I've started rollerblading (acutally I'd rather cycle but my wife likes
: rollerblading) and after I've gone about a mile or two my arch starts to
: hurt. I've tried an arch support purchased from the local pharmacy. Anyone
: been able to deal with this successfully?

The pain is caused by the constant bike path hogging you are doing. Going
from side to side at 8 miles per hours will strain the tendons in your
feet. The pain is amplified by the migrain you are suffering from. The
music you are listening to in your headphones is much to loud and you
cannot care the least that you have stacked up 20 bell ringing cylclists
behind you.



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Old July 22nd 03, 07:44 PM
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Art wrote:
: Hoping that someone on this newsgroup can help me with rollerblading.

: I've started rollerblading (acutally I'd rather cycle but my wife likes
: rollerblading) and after I've gone about a mile or two my arch starts to
: hurt. I've tried an arch support purchased from the local pharmacy.

Anyone
: been able to deal with this successfully?




The pain is caused by the constant bike path hogging you are doing. Going
from side to side at 8 miles per hours will strain the tendons in your
feet. The pain is amplified by the migrain you are suffering from. The
music you are listening to in your headphones is much to loud and you
cannot care the least that you have stacked up 20 bell ringing cylclists
behind you.



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Bob Masse'


This was funny, Bob. And, something I've seen a lot of! There they are,
swaying from one side of the "Bicycle Path" to the other with straight-out
arms---and I am trying to pass, but I can't get their attention because of
the headphones.

Pat in TX


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Old July 22nd 03, 10:40 PM
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Anyone
been able to deal with this successfully?


Quit rollerblading. You take up too much space
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Old July 22nd 03, 10:58 PM
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Jkpoulos7 wrote:

Anyone
been able to deal with this successfully?


Quit rollerblading. You take up too much space


Guess I lack the essential cyclist gene: as I approach a graceful lady
rollerblader from behind, I slow down without realizing it. Just roll
along, gazing at the poetry. G One particular gal is so powerful
that I don't have to slow down much, but I don't see her very often
because she's out early while I don't get going until 7:00 or so.
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Old July 23rd 03, 01:40 AM
Luigi de Guzman
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"Art" wrote in message . ..
Hoping that someone on this newsgroup can help me with rollerblading.

I've started rollerblading (acutally I'd rather cycle but my wife likes
rollerblading) and after I've gone about a mile or two my arch starts to
hurt. I've tried an arch support purchased from the local pharmacy. Anyone
been able to deal with this successfully?


Ride a bike.

problem solved.

-luigi
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Old July 23rd 03, 03:22 AM
S. Anderson
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"Art" wrote in message
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Hoping that someone on this newsgroup can help me with rollerblading.

I've started rollerblading (acutally I'd rather cycle but my wife likes
rollerblading) and after I've gone about a mile or two my arch starts to
hurt. I've tried an arch support purchased from the local pharmacy.

Anyone
been able to deal with this successfully?


I don't know which kind of inlines you have (hockey or rec style), but I can
tell you that in general, skates of any kind are a huge pain to break in. I
dread having to break in new hockey skates. The boot is necessarily stiff
to support your foot and ankle and until the boot moulds to your foot (which
can take months..), pain is inevitable. It took me 3 months to break a pair
of hockey skates in once..and I play 3 times a week. Once broken in though,
they lasted 5 years and were magic. More than any other footwear, I think
skates are critical as far as fit goes. If you have any funky things going
on with your feet, like narrow heels or low arch or high arch, they will be
quite obvious after 10 or 15 minutes in skates. It really pays to shop
around and try on many different pairs in different sizes and widths.

To break them in faster, you can try wearing thick-ish socks and putting
your inlines on in the house while watching television or whatever. Tighten
them up as much as you can bear and leave them on for 10 or 15 or 30 mins.
Eventually the boot will begin to form to your foot. When you go skating
wear much thinner socks and you'll have some clearance and the boot should
be starting to fit a little better.

Another thing to consider is that maybe you just can't skate that well. No
offense, but sometimes if you have balance problems, people will tense up
their feet quite a bit and they'll get cramps from being as rigid as a post.
I don't know how well you skate, but it might help to relax your feet a bit
as you skate.

Cheers,

Scott..


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Old July 23rd 03, 04:23 AM
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S. Anderson wrote:
I've gone about a mile or two my arch starts to hurt. I've tried an
arch support purchased from the local pharmacy.

Anyone
been able to deal with this successfully?



Inline skates are quite like hockey skates and shouldn't take much to
break in at all. Maybe the ones you got are not right for your feet.
Some places will let you take them back if they're giving you that
much trouble.



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Old July 23rd 03, 04:36 AM
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Zippy the Pinhead wrote:
Didn't we just get done (quite rightly) beating up on a Christian
Fundamentalist Conservative who wrote an op-ed piece saying
essentially the same things to a group bicycle ride?

Maybe I dreamt that...


Nope. It happened. It's just sad. Everyone has their own prejudices
and their own self interests. Screw everybody else. Sigh.

Tollerance is hard to find.

--Bill Davidson
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