Plan for the first time on ice

I really really want to take it slow as I start skating after more then two months break. I told you in my last post that I've red that other adults skaters had a pretty hard time coming back. They complain mostly about feeling stiff and wobbly and that they've lost skills. I think my biggest fear is... muscle pain or re injuring my hip.

At first I thought I'll go out there with absolutely no plan and just enjoy. But, I'll skate in a Freestyle session with kids that will just fly around me. I bet that will  get me excited to follow some things they are doing.

So I think it is better have a plan, like a list of exercises easy enough for the first time on ice. Before the break I was skating sometime on a studio rink, half size, and I found I had to skate differently than on the big rink, slower, more methodical. This re starting to skate is somehow the same.

Here are some drills/ exercises I can do in a relaxed manner
- skate in a public skate style
- swizzles forward/backward
- swizzles with breathing lifting the upper body
- easy edges F/B outside and inside
- hopefully the rest of the skaters will still be busy warming up and I will be able to use the middle for some figures style circle eights

And then, a little more power
- slalom B/F
- edge presses
- light crossovers on circles F/B
- power pulls

Then
- light 3-turns forward and backward
- dance dropped 3-turns
- some spins
- some jumps

If there is time
- MITF crossovers pattern
- MITF 5 step mowhok pattern
- chasses, progressives, swing rolls F/B on lobes (no extension)

And also a list of what NOT to focus on...
- no high extension as those were hurting my hip
- no knee bending so I don't get my quads sore
- no speed