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EDIT:i will not be attending the RSO tomorrow!
after almost to weeks of not skating due to a cold and now march break…where our practices are pushed aside…
RSO TOMORROW! EEEK i’m going to suck hard.
:S
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i dont have much to say about last night practice, just dear god the floor was SHIT!
unskateable.
better than i thought.
i just looked at some results from indoor rso’s…from prior years and have just seen that my shit times i thought i had..well are really not that bad at all. this is when looking at times from other females, i feel a little better i think. i also know that i could have done a lot better…
next time!:D
wow.
i have to say that after the crazy relay on sunday, my legs were a little sore but feeling ok for practice…so i thought! mondays practice was 2 hours long…more like 2 and a half with some sweet talking from aaron. it was a killer practice, starts, 10 lappers, and THAT relay…intense. we should figure out a name for that relay…it hurts so much that it really disserves and name, no… demands a name.
i left practice tired as hell and wondering how i was going to feel in the morning. the answer was that i felt pretty good considering what i had done the 2 days prior. it helped a little that i was unable to attend Short track practice last night because of the weather. i took time to rest, catch up on some much needed sleep, ready for tonights practice!
i hope we dont do THAT relay. lol
ups and downs of rso
as promised i am posting about the rso and practice.
i’ve been skating for a while..and done a crazy amount of races in the past. i still get nervous and stressed out when i have to race. i’m not really sure why, these are the same people i skate with every night and there is really no stress put on it. gah maybe its just my personality.
i raced my 300m alright…i came very close to falling in the last corner but was able to stay on my feet and keep skating as best i could. i also know that i didn’t skate the middle of the corner, entry and exit i had no problem. i’m not sure what my times were but i know that i was 2nd fasted in the second group, right behind sarah.
500m i had a good start and was able to skate up the outside of the pack to the front within the first half lap. i led for 2 laps and then was questionably passed by two skaters. by this i mean i entered the corner on the inside track and was pushed 3 people wide in the middle of the corner. this caused me to get squeezed into the wall and in 3rd or 4th place. i ended up finishing 3rd i think, i cant really remember b/c i was told that no once was going to be dq’d and was a little mad.
1000m i stayed in second the whole time, letting jacky lead and as this was happening i was not paying attention to how many laps had been done. when sarah passed up the inside i should have gone with her but did not…the next lap was followed with the bell. instead of staying clam and setting up my pass, i rushed it and ended up bumping with jacky and falling on my butt. lol bad pass…
i ended up 8th overall i think…with the fall and all that other jazz. second female…bah i guess its just one under the belt. better luck next time,
shans
Falling behind
i haven’t done a very good job in keeping up with my posts. skating has been going a lot better since my last post, or should i say my last rant.
i will post more later because i am currently leaving for inline and the rso indoor races.
Well…
THAT SUCKED!
first off sorry if this hurts anyones feelings, so if you had a good practice tonight you may way to stop reading.
why did practice suck? warm up…it all comes down to starting the practice off write. tonights warm up lasted 180 something laps and out of the 16 people who skated all but maybe 4 did not finish or even get past 30 laps. i ended up skating maybe 20 laps total of over 180…and those laps were maybe 4 at a time then stop and start etc. instead of warming up…i got to watch 4 people warm up. yay! this put me as well as others in a bad mood and it was only warm up… except i was not even close to warm.
there is a point to the drill and its important… aaron is giving us a lot of great feedback that is useful and easy to understand. the slower skaters have to move up from the back to the front and skate the track patterns, the problem comes when these skaters come to the front so fast that they break up the pack and the slower skater behind them that has just done their laps has to sprint to keep up. at some points tonight i saw skaters not even be able to get to the front of the pack because the skater before picked up the speed too much.i think this drill would work better with only one change, instead of skating up to the front on the outside of the pack.. we do dropbacks. that way there is a greater chance of finishing, it also makes it easier to jump back into the pack if you do get dropped. i felt tonight that if i were to come back in i would just get in the way.. i would have to jump into the front of the pack and who really wants me a slow skater who cant hang in the warm up to get infront of them and slow them down!? not many.
warm ups like these just make me feel like shit and i still have the whole practice to skate feeling like shit. other than the warm up skating was fine…it would have been fun if i was warm and in a better mood. i was even going to not skate the relay, which for me is the best part of any practice because i had just had enough, like i was wasting my time and everyone elses.
strangly..i was just starting to really really like indoors, i’m excited to go to practices. monday was amazing and tonight i couldn’t wait to get on the floor, funny how things work out. now i find myself saying its a good thing i have to go to ST this sunday and not indoors.
………………again sorry but i’m just being honest about how i felt.
one step forward…160 (laps) back 
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!
skating outside…in January…in CANADA!
YEAH..thats riight… we skated outside today after indoor practice! it was cold and windy…. the hamilton trail was full of crap but there is no snow to be seen! it was great to get back to skating outside concidering the last time i skated outdoors was a few weeks after i broke my toe in June! it felt great, i had fun but more importantly when aaron dropped me and i was all by myself i never once stopped skating or intensionally slow down. i could have waitted from andrew and jacky but i pushed myself and finished the trail by myself. i felt really good about that and really good about how i skated.
indoors was also good for me today…i’m feeling more comfortable again since coming back from all the LT. i finished warm up strong.. which i have not been able to do in the last two practice. for the 20 lap passing drill i was at the front the whole time, making passes, and having fun.
one problem right now is that i’m skating on skates that are a good 2 sizes too big, resulting into major and minor cuts. no problem.. it normal for me to skate with a lot of pain in my feet but now i have a rather large growth on the front of my ankle. i’m guessing this is a build up of scare tissue but i do know that its killing my foot. new skates are on the way soon…we will see how they stack up!
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.
