The second week of May

The plan was to skate 3 times per week... My home rink has adults only sessions Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon. I like those as they feel safe, they are not very crowded, the skaters are familiar and I like how these sessions are spread evenly during the week.

Monday... no skating. The "reason" was that it was raining... (and I felt a little tired). I'm telling you, I have to get my skating groove back!

Wednesday... skating!!! But oh boy, it wasn't pleasant. The plan was to skate easy so I will find my balance and not get sore muscles, and that supported my priority of working on the blade alignment, as I have to get off ice to adjust the blade. 

At this point the right boot feels aligned, I can do all edges and turns without feeling pulled. My pronation makes makes the FO edge difficult to sustained but I don't feel it can be helped from the blade more than it is now. On the left boot I still feel a positive difference while playing with the blade, so it is just a matter of striking the right balance.

Based of what I felt last on ice, that my heel was collapsing towards inside, and I had no more space to move the blade, I added shims under the heel. On ice I did swizzles, slalom, edge presses and the heel felt better, the front felt that collapsed towards inside. I moved the blade toward inside, but now the back inside edge was pulling me towards outside. So I moved the blade back a little towards outside and added shims to the front too. It felt better I did more edge presses 3 turns, brackets, crossovers, chasses, some spins. I felt I needed the front a little back again towards inside. I was tempted to keep skating and adjust after I get off ice but as I was skating "easy" anyway, I took the time to make this 3rd or was it 4th adjustment. These adjustments take at least 5 minutes, I would think towards 10 minutes... so after this last adjustment the skating session was close to ending so I didn't get to do much skating, but the first "feel" was positive.  

Friday... skating. I had a work meeting that I suspected  it will run long, but I told myself that I will go skating even for just half an hour. And it was only half hour... It didn't feel productive from skating or adjusting the blade point of view, but it is a victory in commitment.