Be sure your athletic goals are in concert with your lifestyle. Working 60 hours per week would certainly interfere with achieving nationally competitive times, regardless of your physical attributes.
From Couch Potatoes to Mouse Potatoes Watching television isn't really compatible with an active lifestyle, unless you use it to watch sports and motivate yourself to get off the couch. For this television can be a valuable tool, if only it covered the IMPORTANT sports.
Get In Line Suzanne Nottingham and Frank J. Fedel offer useful advice and tips for getting started inline skating, including how to stand and stop. Also, some helpful tips on skating gear.