Cross-country skiing first time out!

This morning I went cross country skiing at the groomed trail area in town.  My main thought about this was "There ain't no edge!"  My new beginner-intermediate skis are the kind for going along in the track in the snow, not the skating kind.  Luckily there were perfect tracks in the snow.  I wonder if their groomer machine makes those somehow, after raking the wider trail overall.  Turns out these modern skis are slick.  I pictured laboring along the trail so my automatic sliding along at unstoppable speed was totally unexpected.  How do you stop?  I have no idea.  My gut instinct was to snow plow, where you point the tips of your skis like a triangle and angle the edges to slow down in the snow.  To do this I had to hop out of the groomed tracks.  But "there ain't no edge" on the skis, so snow plowing is nowhere near as effective as with downhill skis.  I'm not sure why.  I guess they don't want anything slowing them down.  Maybe the conditions of the day had something to do with it also.  If the snow was powder, the tracks would be slower (I think).  At least I did not fall, even on the bigger dips of the one or two intermediate trails I accidentally tried out.  Can't wait to go again!  What a great workout.