I woke up at 5:30am for some dumb reason and decided to take advantage of the situation and go skate.  I arrived shortly before metal rollerblader Brendan.  Warming up was a bit harder than I thought it would be.  Popping felt impossible.  I tried a warm up line for a bit of fakie flip on flat, halfcab noseslide, back 50 the mj ledge.  Never got the back 50.  I really struggled with pop.  Took way too long to do crooks the new bench then terrible front 50 the cinder block ledge.  Didn’t land treflip or heelflip.  The Carrol’s are working, but have such bad board feel.  Often I would just go by whatever I was trying to hit rather than even pose ollies.  I was able to do a nosegrind 180 for the first time in way too long.  I guess this is the advantage of skating by myself, as I allow myself to slowly work up when I would normally be too embarrassed.  I took like 20 tries to do it on the 3″ tall “ledge”.  Next I tried some “faster” 50s on the low ledge and kind of got back 180 out.  Then I got tired and called it a day and went to work.

(setup 8.38 null smoke valley, jessup ultragrip, 5.8 ventures titanium axle, venom 91a bushings with both washers, spitfire 51mm green slag radial 99a f4, lakai carrol xlk grey size 12 no insoles)
(pain 4/10)

Met Saul across the street for some slappies.  He was trying feebles on the upper deck.  Then we did some regular ones on the main curb before heading down to the hook.  Saul did several.  I took a bit.  That curve is incredibly fun, it keeps you locked in.

(setup 8.38 null smoke valley, jessup ultragrip, 5.8 ventures titanium axle, venom 91a bushings with both washers, spitfire 51mm green slag radial 99a f4, lakai carrol xlk grey size 12 no insoles)
(pain 3/10 but i didn’t really try to ollie)