Derby Never Dies (but it gets real quiet)
YAWN. Nothing new under the sun. Started an Oval "regimen". Eventually I'll settle into Monday-Wednesday evenings, but probably just through June and July - got a decent practice schedule in August. This week there's a scrimmage on Friday so I only went once, next week is another scrimmage so I'll do the same. Then the Cincinnati bout, then derby gets even quieter than it is now!
The Oval is nice but it is hard to skate when it is so damn hot. I do a warm-up and stretch, then run through some pyramid 80-100s - building up in 30 second intervals to 2 minutes, then back down the same way. Takes 16 minutes so that's pretty good. Then I do a three-round four corners with two kinds of crunches, plank, and push-ups. Then it gets a little varied, maybe some skating around pretending to practice weaving (no cones), or ducking, squatting, stuff like that. Might try "10 Minutes of Hell" but I don't self-motivate very well (I need other people to push and measure myself against) and I actually hate skating in circles. I did skate 10 full minutes today but it certainly wasn't "hell" as it wasn't very fast. At least it wasn't too hot - last summer when I was doing that it was basically "stay alive for 10 minutes" because trying to skate that hard in that heat was ridiculous. If I can skate for at least 45 minutes, preferably an hour, it's a decent workout.
So, next weekend is Cinci, weekend after that is the league season end party and the team season end party! I just hope I remember the weekend.
The Oval is nice but it is hard to skate when it is so damn hot. I do a warm-up and stretch, then run through some pyramid 80-100s - building up in 30 second intervals to 2 minutes, then back down the same way. Takes 16 minutes so that's pretty good. Then I do a three-round four corners with two kinds of crunches, plank, and push-ups. Then it gets a little varied, maybe some skating around pretending to practice weaving (no cones), or ducking, squatting, stuff like that. Might try "10 Minutes of Hell" but I don't self-motivate very well (I need other people to push and measure myself against) and I actually hate skating in circles. I did skate 10 full minutes today but it certainly wasn't "hell" as it wasn't very fast. At least it wasn't too hot - last summer when I was doing that it was basically "stay alive for 10 minutes" because trying to skate that hard in that heat was ridiculous. If I can skate for at least 45 minutes, preferably an hour, it's a decent workout.
So, next weekend is Cinci, weekend after that is the league season end party and the team season end party! I just hope I remember the weekend.
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