The second part of the last month I worked hard into getting at the rink 3 times per week. It is hard to make time for it, but it seems the biggest problem is that my muscle hurt and I feel pretty tired for the first two weeks when I skate 3 times per week. The thing that I discovered during the last skating "come back" is that I build strength faster if I take it easier and stop skating when I feel tired. Then, I'm not hurting so badly and I can come back and skate in 2 days.
So I took it easy and slowly built while working on the easier and by now more boring exercises. And then I worked on the newer things that I had instruction on the last lesson (basically the European 3turns and the Foxtrot).
I think that having some shinny new things to work on, helps my motivation. I used to take weekly lessons and now I don't have the time for it (my coach is an hour driving distance, worse with traffic). I plan on another lesson, it looks it is a full month from the previous one, and I think that while I cannot really build new elements, I get some corrections so I don't build or continue training with bad form.
I also feel that the lessons help me mentally by having a commitment. It is forcing me to train more consistently, the boring stuff. And I also get excited for the lesson to maybe ask for some little new thing.
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