This week there is ice at the close by rink Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (the one negative is that it is at different time each day) and I could skate at my home rink Wednesday and Friday. So basically the whole week is covered! Analyzing the last 2 weeks it seems that I favor heavily the close by rink because I don't waste time driving, especially now that I added a weekly lesson that takes quite a lot of driving time. As the week started I've realized that while I didn't have to travel the work load was heavy.
Monday was Columbus day, I skated at the close by rink, my home rink was closed anyway. I expected to be crowded with kids and it was. To make it worse there was no ice monitor and the kids were playing catch and playing by throwing gloves on ice and using the beginners frames to play racing, and bump into each other. I skated around, used the center of the ice for some turns, edges an spins, and I left after half hour happy to be alive. At least I got my skating legs and balance back after the weekend.
Tuesday it was almost empty, but there were 2 brothers around 5 years old, very good skaters, going fast in hockey style and not looking around. The noise that they were making amplified my fear of them hitting me. I got frustrated thinking I had a lesson the next day and I couldn't practice. I decided to cancel my lesson and just skate for fun. I ended up reviewing some the double 3s pattern and the bracket patterns
Wednesday, no lesson. I could have skated to the farther away rink, but I realized I felt tired, I didn't go.
Thursday I skated again at the close bye rink and the same brothers were there. There were other people skating and that worked for me, it seamed to slow down and quiet down a bit the boys. I've ran through everything I could remember, but I felt frustrated.
Friday there was ice only at the further away rink and Fridays is usually more crowded and more traffic coming back. It was still the better skating day out of this week.
Few things I've noticed this week
- as soon as I want to "train", I get frustrated (from various reasons). I will have to think about ways to control that, or to lower my expectations of training.
- I'm also thinking that my hope to skate Monday through Friday (in the middle, on Wednesday having just a half hour lesson so not too physically challenging) might not work because my body gets too tired and my schedule too busy. I'll give it few more weeks... if I don't catch up I'll have to choose 3 days to skate and the lesson, or a lesson only every second.
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