Indoors = awesome Ice = not so much
indoors last night was for the most part a great practice, the best one for me personally so far. if anyone really knows me that reads this….me saying indoors was awesome is a huge shock! well more than that… the fact that i’m even doing indoors is something else. i have always hated indoors..for many reason but since i was off skates for 5 months i figure that any time on skates, weather ST, LT, or indoors cant be a bad thing. I was right…its not and its turning into a really good thing for me.
i’m never really good in any warm up because it takes my body a while to feel good, so i normally stay with the slower group and work my legs in and last night was a little more than i could handle. lol the warm up was something like 160 laps!! i stayed in up to and including my turn to take the lead and skate my track patterns…then just hung on the back until i could not anymore. i find that i have to be skating behind certain people because i tend to adapt my technique to the person in front of me and if that skate is all over the place…or only skating the exit of the corners it makes me really tired. i end up leaving a gap and skating my own track pattern which means i’m not in the draft, i just have to make sure i pick better people to follow.lol.
i think i did really well in the 4 x 10 lap passing/race drill. i made sure i was in the front for most the laps…passing as much as i could. Aaron was able to give some pointers with the exit of my comers to help me from scrubbing speed by keeping too tight to the blocks. i ended up winning 2 of the 3 i skated… of course by the help of my team but the last one i won all by myself! missy and i worked together for a while but when it came down to the finish i was able to hold my track pattern and win! yay..lol go me! i’m really starting to feel like i’m getting a little better every skate! 
of course we did relays.. always a lot of fun and at times a huge mess but last night there were some great passes and racing. at one point missy, jacky, and i were three wide shoulder to shoulder in the corner right before our exchanges! intense and sooo much fun!
ice on the other hand… is just stupid..lol to put in bluntly! i dont like or agree with the drills that we are skating and have not really enjoyed practice at all since i went to lack placid! i feel stronger…i’m skating faster but i’m not getting anything from being there. 
oh and the highlight of my life tonight…my boots broke! yes the boot curse has found me yet again! nothing that major that the buckle cant be fixed but i really use the buckles on those skates. hmmm it would be nice to skates to stay together..not break.. feel good for once, considering how much they cost!
