Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate today. I had about a 5 minute warmup.

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- I don't think I'm as fast as I was a month ago :-(
• slalom -- she had me go into this right from stroking so I was already going pretty fast.  Ugh, kinda scary.  My quads were killing me by the end.
• pushing -- I pushed Holly down the rink (both ways) while she braked with her toepicks.  Not too bad.
• swizzle pumps -- half-swizzle pumps around the hockey circles, so both directions and forward and back.  Ugh, again my quads were killing me.
• FI3/twizzle thing -- we did these down the line again, about 4 times.  They got a little better.
• lunges -- lunges down each length of the rink, alternating feet while pushing Holly.  These were actually not too bad.  I couldn't even really do these on both sides when we started.  Finished with half a lap (that was all I could do).

All in all quite a workout, as usual.  I do think I lost some ground in the time we had off, I was pretty winded by the end.