Saturday, June 30, 2018

Summer skating schedule

On the third week of June my rink transitioned to the summer schedule. The rink offers figure skating and hockey summer camps for kids, so my regular early afternoon skating time is gone. The practice ice for figure skating is very little and inconsistently distributed along the week. My skating schedule is now:
- Monday: adult public skate, where I cannot do much work
- Tuesday: I drive further away to another rink to take my weekly private lesson and I get to practice half an hour
- Wednesday: no skating
- Thursday: I registered for an edge/power group class in the afternoon and to my old Freestyle group class offered in the morning because there is practice ice immediately after. But it just happens that that practice ice is very crowded plus it has bad ice, as they don't refinish the ice after 3 hours of classes from before. Still I skated the 2 hours in the morning and the one in the afternoon, and I was dead tired.
- Friday: practice ice that is not crowded and... yoga. I barely survived the practice ice. I told the yoga instructor that I cannot feel my quads and she incorporated some nice stretches for them. Also she set us near the barre, and she demonstrated proper alignment for few poses, then she told me to use it as support for posses that uses the quads more, like the warrior 2, the triangle...
- Saturday: practice ice not crowded again.
- Sunday: no skating

I don't feel I get a weekly rhythm, and I don't like that I cannot practice next day after my private lesson. Then, on Thursday, I still don't practice the instruction from the private coach and Friday I'm too tired to practice efficiently. Saturday saves the week. But that is just one efficient session per week.

 I used to get very, very frustrated with everything affecting my skating, and the lack of ice time was one big frustration. Another one was how crowded were the sessions. But it is what it is, and feeling frustrated didn't help my skating.  I'm trying to focus on what I can do not what I can't... The same goes for skating while injured, because I still have a little pain...

From next week I won't take the practice ice on Thursday morning for sure, and I'm considering to abandon the afternoon edge class so I can have a good Friday skate Next week the group classes are canceled being so close to the 4th of July. I soo wait to see if  I'll feel better and all efficient on Friday.

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