Recapture The Thrill of Being on Wheels
After a year spent largely indoors, adults are regaining a sense of balance on roller skates, bikes and skateboards.
De’Lorean Hall attends a recent Skaterobics class in Queens Village, New York.Credit...Victor Llorente for The New York Times
By Roxanne Fequiere
First came the walks — and then, seemingly all at once, the wheels.
Back at the beginning of the pandemic with interminable lockdowns on the horizon, people broke up the monotony of their homestays with short jaunts on foot around the neighborhood just to get some sunlight and fresh air; or, as the writer Ruby Keane put it, “a stupid little daily walk just to feel something.”