The rink where I usually skate during my lunch breaks is closed up to Labor day to remake the ice. There is another rink close bye but it is focused heavily on hockey. I did try to go there once and the hockey players were late to get off ice for 15 minutes. Then it should have been 15 minutes zamboni time, so 30 minutes... well that's all the time I have to skate.
But desperate times... I found ice at 3pm Monday and Friday, and I actually was able to go both days.
I continued with the approach from last week to just skate and enjoy. While the boots break in, I need to figure out if I need to punch out my left boot and figure out where I want the blade moved. I was doing stroking, edges, edge presses, circles, chasses, swing rolls, cross rolls, crossovers, 3 turns, all forward and backward.
I had the exact same feel as last week. Before going back to the bootfitter to adjust the blade and to eventually punch out the left toe, I have first to figure out why I'm cramping... on both feet. The left boot I know it is slightly shorter, but the right boot fits. The bootfitter added half insoles in the front of the boot to compensate for the high toe box that is the new design of Riedell. I'm more and more sure I cramp because of those. I also feel my balance off, when going backward, and I feel my shins muscles working too hard when I skate forward. I tried to take them out but then the boots feel too large. I want to try full lenght insoles, but I couldn't find in stores, even on Amazon they have almost 2 weeks delivery time.
But, besides cramping and the blade not being perfectly aligned and of course the high to box, I feel I'm in the best boot scenario I was in the last two years.
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