Skating - painful pleasure

Is it pleasure anyways? I've been ice skating yesterday for a very first time. I didn't quite get the buzz of it, yet everyone else seemed to have a lot of laughs with it. I end up with freezed off butt, and knee injury reminded of itself painfully. I think I need to get in shape :( I've been promised [or rather threatened] that I will learn [and there's no way of saying no] to ski. So, I doubt I will be alive in 2 months from now. I'll die crashed on some tree.. But hell, I don't see why I wouldn't do it. Time to do work.. Till then, bye bye.