What are men compared to rocks and mountains!
Lack Placid! man what a place…
i really enjoyed my trip to lack placid with larry and herb 2 weeks ago! we got a lot of great skating in and it was great to get out of canada to meet and see other skaters, or thats what i thought was going to happen! the truth of it was that i knew a great deal of people while at the track…mostly fellow canadians! it just so happend that a bunch of ottawa skaters and some from quebec had come to take part in a week long camp. others like larry, herb, and i had just come for some good skating.
every day there are two skating sessons, one in the morning from 9-10am and one from 4-6pm. this gave us lots of time between thursday at 4pm to sunday at 10am to log A LOT of miles. larry kept every practice fresh and hard but also understanding herb and my abilities. it felt great to have people make sure you were able to stay in a drill and finish it even though your legs and mind is telling you it cant be done. i know i need that as a skater and a person because without it the only person i would be letting down by stopping would be me… that doesn’t bother me but i hate when my stopping or for better words giving up lets others down, so i am less likely to stop if people are really pushing me.
at the end of our trip (sunday morning) larry, herb, and i all competed in a race or two. i however was only comfortable in doing a 500m, larry and herb both did a 500m and a 1000m. this was the first LT race i have done in maybe four years… i was nervouse but waiting for my pair #17 and the cold allowd me to talk myself out of it being a race and i was able to win my pair. i was happy and surprised…it felt good to win my pair even though my time was less than steller! lol
being back in ontario i have been able to skate gage park and well after lack placid its like skating on velcrow. hard to imagin how we are able to skate as well as we do on the only 5 sided oval in the world.
i have also been to indoors… that was hard! i felt as if it was my first time back again… my legs were on fire all warm up but i felt better durning practice. on wednesday the warm up was too fast for me and i could not finish it, i felt like crap. the rest of the night was filled with some killer relays, i had to work hard and not give up.. i did what i could do.. i hope it was enough for the team.
ST was a disaster on thursday and i ended up getting really mad and leaving practice..along with another skater. because we were not fast enough to skate with the top group, we were told to skate with the slowest people…doing garbage miles really. i dont think i should have to pay as much money as i do to skate alone! as a skater you start thinking “why am i here?” “why am i doing this and paying this much?” it was just a bad night all together so i felt it was best to leave then i get more upset.
tomorrow i am going to indoors instead of LT, then i will go with candy to do some outdoors! OUTDOORS….in JANUARY…in….CANADA! 
should be good…if i still have legs after indoors! ahahaha
lets hope i will keep with staying on my feet…it has been a while since i’ve fallen. eeek fingers crossed.
