The plan for last month was to skate more regularly and to pay attention to muscle conditioning while skating on my old boots but waiting for the new ones, or in preparation for when I'll get the new ones.
Well, it didn't go too well.
It made the skating feel like exercising so less enjoyable. I also felt pressured to have a schedule (needed in order to build muscles), and then guilty if I didn't respect the schedule. And there is also the pain. Firstly there is the ankle pain from still breaking in the old boots that were rebuilt and are now stiff. As I bend the knee more than when skating causally, I also bend the ankle more, plus I push harder... Then there is the muscle pain from working the muscles harder. I know I go through that pain while rebuilding the muscles, the problem is that if I don't skate on a regular schedule, I don't really gain much muscle strength anyway, so I go through this pain for nothing...
I was thinking of the potential problems for my skating "comeback" for when I'll have the new boots. I will have to build more muscle strength, readjust with the spinning dizziness and break in the boots. Now I see I will also have to readjust with the skating schedule. I'm hoping that the excitement of having new boots will help in approaching these problems.
For now, I'm reverting to casual skating for this month, go when I can, skate how I feel like... with some stroking and some spinning.
