So I tried to be a good girl and went out to the outdoor rink today with the intent of getting at least an hour of practice in. I took my little girl with me and put her on her trike on the far side where she was content to pedal around in circles while I did my thing.
The first thing I had to do was chase off some obnoxious kids. The rink was blissfully empty when I got there but by the time I finished lacing up a gaggle of kids that were about 8-12 ran up with a variety of toys ranging from razor scooters to pogo sticks.
*sigh*
I called out to them that I planned on doing laps on the oval and asked that they please stick to the surrounding areas so I would not risk ramming into any of them (none of which were wearing helmets, bad parents!). Oh...that lasted about 25 seconds before the first kid cut in front of me on a diagonal. Okay...I gotta learn to skate with a pack and all but generally speaking I am pretty sure in derby you go the same direction and stick to the track rather than cut in, out, and across it. Totally not going to work.
So now I jumped into Mommy mode and politely explained to the kids that they simply could not be on the track with me if they were going to behave so dangerously. I also ixnayed the pogo sticks completely. The last thing I need is a kid bouncing at me out of nowhere!
It took a few tries but I finally got through to the oldest one there that if they were going to share the rink with me they needed to be respectful of my safety and theirs and either go to the far end of the rink where my 2 year old was smart enough to stay, stick to the outside of the oval, or leave altogether. And off they went for the barren basketball court to play. Finally!
I got 25 warm up laps in (which I did not time) and even got a little more comfortable with the motion of crossovers. Then I worked on one leg glides. During so I managed to consistently cross the half-court on one leg on a straight path. I also laid out some of the general Mommy crap my purse manages to consume no matter how often I clean it out so I could work on weaving. That proved difficult simply because my daughter kept trying to help me by cleaning up said mommy crap and redepositing it into my purse. What a good little helper...too bad I can't get her to clean at home! However, the few times I did succeed in keeping my course on the ground I did good.
I tried a few touch and go lunges but my legs just aren't strong enough to do that just yet. We'll keep at them though until they are.
By this time my daughter was done on her trike and begging me to take her to the slides. As much as I wanted to go longer she is 2, after all, and had been really good for me so it was time to let her have some fun too. I wanted to end my time by trying my hand at 25 laps in 5 minutes but that ended up being a no-go. The stinking wind was blowing so hard that half the time it felt like I was skating through a muddy bog...it is so hard to skate against a huge wind like that! It was even making me stutter some on my skates o I gave up on that. If I can get in 45 minutes at least every other day outside of regular practices I think I'll be doing really good.
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