Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  I warmed up with some Bronze moves and tried a few spins also.

Today's lesson was really taxing:

• stroking -- pushing for speed. I think I am doing better.  The session was relatively crowded (11 skaters) and I wasn't convinced they would hear my coming since some of them are wearing earphones etc. so I was a little nervous.  I do think I'm going faster.  Holly challenged me to keep up with her and I couldn't.
• harness -- towing Holly in the harness.  Ugh.  After a lap of this she had me skate a lap of stroking and I was really flying, it felt so much easier without her behind me, lol :-).
• resistance -- pushing Holly while she rode her toepicks.  Somewhat different muscles than the harness.  Again a lap after.
• forward swizzle-tap -- swizzle then jump and tap the boots together.  Forward was a bit scary.  It got better though.
• backward swizzle-tap -- after forward these seemed relatively easy.  For the last half-lap Holly put some resistance on as I was towing her.  Yikes.

There was more on the menu but at this point I was rather dizzy and had to sit down for a bit.  This was about 17 minutes' worth so I almost made it the full 20.  I didn't get a chance to eat a good breakfast today due to a bunch of stuff at work and some other issues, so I'm sure that's part of it.  I'll try to be better prepared for next week.