its been a long time February 3, 2007

i haven’t had much time for blogging or anything else for that matter. working 2 jobs, going to school full time, skating, and trying to have a life are pretty much taking up all my time.

last weekend was the brampton 2 day meet, which saw almost 300 skaters racing. i was the head track stewart for the weekend. the weekend went really well with pretty good ice conditions for the most part. however 10 ish hours on the ice a day kills the feet and body. its much easier racing.lol.

there were many inliners racing last weekend also. it was great to see them racing and doing well! watching the races always gives me the itch to be out there with them.

 overall my skating is going well, or as well as it can be with the little amount of time i have to be on the ice. i’m happy with how things are going and how my tech is looking as of late.

off to work now.

skate hard. turn left.

Decisions November 12, 2006

i had been trying to decide weather to race the brampton one day meet, i was going to do it but then i talked to my coach mike murray. his feeling about it is that he only wanted me to do it if i would have fun, not get stressed or mad. sooo since i’m not in good shape and well fell 2 times in 1 min on tuesday hurting my foot…i’m not going to race. Instead i’m going to do corner judging and track shit. i feel good about this decision..i mean i would have gotten mad..b/c i’m not in shape and would have gotten bad times. on tuesday we did a lot of corner work on second hour..in pairs with slower skaters. i think during this hour somehow i stripped my edges because on third hour when we were doing 3 laps x 8 i was on my butt more than skating. the first fall is the one that really hurt..80% speed..into the matts. ouch! the show must go on until i fell again so i took it easy for the rest of the night but it was kinda silly b/c i could have passed up to the lead..we were only doing low to mid 12’s. we finished up with a relay; my team was shawn, mike murray, some guy:P, and me but shawn fell so mike and i had to pick up the slack!

week off.. November 4, 2006

i haven’t skated in a week because brampton speed skating club doesn’t fun on halloween and i only skate on tuesdays right now! sucks..big time but there was a silver lining i guess. last wednesday i hurt my hip…walking, i think it was from the tuesday nights practice but i cant be sure. i was walking normally and all of a sudden i felt a pop and was in a lot of pain..the pain lasted a few days then went away but comes back evey now and then. so i guess the week off came at about th right time.

last weeks practice was pretty good..murray wasn;t there again, out of town or something of that sort. larry ran pactice which went well except for the part where he seems to pick no me and makes me lead all the drills. lol we got a lot of laps in third hour 5x 12 laps at speed. not bad but i got really tired by the third one so i had to lead 6 laps then hang in if i could. the 4th 12 lapper i picked the speed up a lot just to hurt them a little, since they were taking in easy drafting off of me!

 in about 13 days i’m racing the one day brampton meet! i am unsure of this because last yr it went about as bad as anyone could have made it. three falls, 2 DNF’s, really bad concussion and shitty times! all this at my own clubs meet, its the curse of the brampton skaters…we cant race at our own track. its pretty funny really! if this race goes well..then i will do more events later in the yr. fingers crossed.