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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 154971" data-attributes="member: 337">Short story:* last few years my friends had showed me hunting pheasants with dogs was really fun*get dumb lucky and Royce the poodle gets good enough at it for he/I to enjoy slough hunting together late season*end of last winter pheasant closes - I had gotten to best shape in a loooong time tromping sloughs*thought to myself "how to keep this new physical condition intact? HATE treadmills etc... how?!!!*recalled loving skateboarding in the 70s, did 360s, handstands, etc. back in 70s but never mastered "transition" (ramps, pipes, etc.)*decided that was how I would do it - skate the skatepark in Fargo almost every morning all last spring/summer/fall*late fall the cold weather came - skating in 30 degree weather sucked - decided I needed to start working on a mini-ramp*spent about a month building one (October/November?) in modules in my garage - hauled modules to my small biz - finished it up there*have skated almost every morning since, lost 15 lbs, blood pressure fell, feel great, having an absolute ball*it never gets old because there's always the next level of trick to work toward*this should keep up for years barring unforeseen health BS and/or crippling injury (I wear every pad/safety stuff imaginable)- - - Updated - - -speaking of which - is there still an over-fifty softball league going in Fargo?</blockquote>