Neil, Blake and I headed to Greeley for the grand opening of The Lookout. After checking out the shop there was a game of SKATE in front on the narrow sidewalk. I tried to warm up a little in the alley and man I was struggling. Then the ‘over 40’ game of SKATE started and it was Neil, Eric and I. I bailed pop shoves twice, rolled my ankle a little on an ollie north, didn’t get close to a front shove, but managed to land most no comply / boneless tricks I can do. It was fun. I don’t even know if we really kept track of letters, but Eric one and deserved it.

Then Neil, Blake and I headed to campus. The first spot we hit was the bench spot in the photo above. Neil and I struggled. Getting old is tough sometimes. That spot is setup so that you can do a ledge trick, flatground trick then another ledge trick. I technically landed a line of noseslide to fakie, halfcab flip then crooks (tiniest crook bonk to date). It took me all I had to front 50 the ledge Neil is 50’ing above. Neil was shooting for some lines too, but couldn’t get crooks. Blake front 50’d it no problem and also got noseslides and a sick front 180 nosegrind.

Next we went to that little gap in gap out sidewalk thing. It was somewhat banked up to it on both sides. Not much went down on it. You could skate it like a hip too. Then we moved on near the stadium where I wussed out ollie’ing down a 4 stair and a 5 stair. Blake did them. Blake and I also ollied onto a sidewalk and rolled down a narrow gutter which was pretty fun. Then ollied off a little ledge and slappied a curb.

We found this mini steep bank to curb next that Blake and I skated. I got back axle stall, crooks stall to fakie and front pivot. Blake got axle stall, back pivot, rock fakie (ha).

Then we went to another area that looked incredible for skating, but both Neil and I’s legs were not working. My shoes are partially to blame, the are too small and hurting my feet/legs. Blake had a cool run of manual a ledge, ollie a little wall then ollie a two stair. He also front 180’d the wall then halfcabbed the two stair. That was it on the skating. It felt great being out skating street as I’ve skated too many parks lately, but man my legs were not working. I ate two flour tortillas earlier in the week thinking maybe in the warmer weather I didn’t need to be so concerned about eating gluten free. Nope. Lesson learned.