So, Tuesday's practice was a pretty mellow one as Mouth wasn't there and Mel and I (Karen was a no show) were pretty much left to our own devices.
We did get some good technical advice on a few things from both Split and Frank...and hopefully Split will be lending me out some grippy wheels until I can save up enough to purchase some of my own (I have been skating on very hard indoor wheels when I need a much grippier outdoor wheel for our polished concrete outdoor track). And Cruise, who is skating with the pack but not yet bouting, came over to skate with us some and we got some ideas of what the minimum skills we should be working on are.
Mostly Mel and I did some weaving, scooter pushes, lateral movement, and crossover work. We definitely didn't bust our asses without Mouth, but I know that I for one needed a more mellow practice that night as one of my ass muscles was a little tweaked. (Really? My ASS muscle? Only me, seriously.)
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The next day I went out to the track with my daughter in tow to work on my endurance some. I started out by doing 25 laps and trying to improve my crossovers some. I think once I get a grippier wheel I will improve on those, as it stands now my wheels slide too much on the motion for me to comfortably extend my legs enough to really propel myself. And let me just say, I consider it an overall improvement to my skating that I can tell it's my wheels slipping and not just my suckiness that is holding me back!
I didn't time myself, but I was very pleased with the fact that I got all 25 in without needing to stop. Now, I was beat by the end and my feet, as usual, were killing me after that. But I did them!
I worked a little on one foot glides and weaves...I can go around half the track on my right alone (yay) but I still need to build up my balance and strength on my left leg as I can go straight but I lose it when I try to turn and weave on it.
I also worked on improving my T and plow stops and my baseball slides. I am still working on popping back up onto my skates without placing my hands on the ground. I can do it when using my right leg, but again it's my left leg that seems weaker so I can't do it on lefty just yet. I need to get faster for sure but at least I look less like a retard now that I can at least do it.
And I made sure to end my 40 minute practice (about all my 2 year old's attention span can take before she turns into a raging lunatic begging to go to the playground, lol) by doing another 25 laps as fast as I could. Now, by the last 10 laps it was pretty ugly and sloppy...but I did them without stopping. Slowly but surely improving. =-)
Of course, don't you know that once my right quad finally feels like a million bucks...even after sliding all over the place on that knee...I moved funny and pulled my left one. *sigh* At least I know that it will get better soon enough and until then I can skate through it.
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Looking forward to tonight's practice. I hope it's warm enough to don my new booty shorts, lol!
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