{"id":16942,"date":"2023-03-12T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16942"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:19:21","slug":"daily_2955_-_i_realized_i_could_try_skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/03\/12\/daily_2955_-_i_realized_i_could_try_skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2955 &#8211; I realized I could try skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During yesterday&#8217;s walk I realized that there is enough snow in Stockholm for me to actually do a bit of skiing. I dug out my skis from the basement (and spent half an hour looking for my ski boots, because I was so sure they were in a black box but it was, in fact, brown) and drove to J\u00e4rvaf\u00e4ltet to wake up my skiing muscles.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I had covid just before my ski tour, and it really affected my performance. This time I&#8217;ve been hesitating whether I should go at all, because I was even sicker this year. But I&#8217;ve had more time to recover, and yesterday&#8217;s hike proved that I&#8217;m back in decent shape, so I won&#8217;t have to cancel last minute. Which would have been a real pity, because I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this trip since November. Or since last year&#8217;s trip, more like.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2955_skiing_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nPrepared tracks on perfectly flat ground are not very interesting or inspiring. But the snow was good, and the views were pretty nice. And it felt good to have a training day to re-discover my skiing technique before having to do it for real. Since I usually only get one chance a year, it takes a little while each time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2955_skiing_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During yesterday&#8217;s walk I realized that there is enough snow in Stockholm for me to actually do a bit of skiing. I dug out my skis from the basement (and spent half an hour looking for my ski boots, because I was so sure they were in a black box but it was, in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,768,782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-skiing_xc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions\/16948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}