Last month I was hoping to get into a skating rhythm as the ice availability increased. While I've skated 3 times per week, one week 4 times, I don't feel I've gotten a rhythm. I like to skate Monday, Wednesday, Friday and I couldn't do that. I was also not able to make a skating session plan of what exercises to work on. The challenges from the skating side are the same, ice availability including quality and how crowded it is, boots not being ideal, loosing muscle conditioning as soon as I don't skate for a week, then muscle soreness, difficultly in getting enough plant protein. I feel all these are improving... some more than others. I think I'll get into details into separate posts, it is too much to write. One thing I will say, because I complained in the last post about the ice, the ice did get better!
The new challenge seems to be that my "life" schedule gets in the way of skating regularly both as which days in the week I can go skating and what kind of energy and mindset I have when I skate. And my schedule for the next few months is very uneven, this month for example I'm traveling for 3 weekends so no skating those 3 Fridays. I think the next step is to accept all these and find ways to skate "around" them. I used to try to find ways to be more "flexible" that was basically telling myself to adjust to whatever conditions I get, and it helped up to a point. I think instead of a skating rhythm that I don't seem to be able to get often, and flexibility that helps to keep skating doesn't help to move forward, I need now to look for some continuity in what I do when on ice.
Writing all these I'm realizing I'm actually looking again for progress, that means I feel it's possible!
The plan for this month is to keep going!
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