Power

My power lesson with Holly on the Gilbert adult skate.  I've decided I have a love/hate relationship with this.  I sometimes really dread this lesson, but when it's over I feel pretty proud of myself.  Oh well!

Today's lesson:

• stroking -- as fast as possible, as usual.
• slaloms -- ugh.  My quads! my quads!
• swizzles -- one side forward, the other backward.  I like these so that was kinda okay.
• lunges -- again, yuck.  The L side is pretty good, the R side not so much.  Still, doing them by myself (no handholding) is a win.
• twizzly things -- these actually are getting kind of better.  I need to practice them!  She had me doing them on two feet still.
• swizzle pumps -- on the circle.  Oh my quds!
• swizzle-hops -- one side forward (Holly held my hands) and then one side back.  Ugh.  At the end of the lesson it's so hard and I am so exhausted!  But, proud of myself.

And of course a final lap of stroking.  I timed myself on this lap and it was 42 seconds (from a standing start).  That's at least 20s of what I was doing a couple of years ago, so that's pretty impressive.  And this was at the end of the lesson when I was tired!  So that's encouraging.