Synchro Practice :)

So last night was another synchro practice. It was rough, as we skated for an hour and a half solid with no break and the one break we thought we got we didn't get and the coach yelled at us for taking it even though she said "take a drink"...it was unclear at best. Anyway...practice went well. I again made it through the whole thing without dying, so that's a win,




Our program is kind of difficult and the person who happened to be to my left for most of it keeps breaking her grip on my hand. I hold on to her for dear life, but she gives up and lets go of me and I can't hold on anymore and the circle breaks and it seriously isn't all me. I'm trying to be uber patient because i know i'm not the best skater on the team either, but for cryin out loud i at least hold on to the person next to me.



Karen has me leading a couple of lines...this is a new thing for me as before she'd have moved me to make sure i wasn't in the lead. That means that she trusts my skating ability more than she used to. She still yells at me, but not as much and not for the same things. It feels pretty good that she'll let me be on the end of a line. That's kind of an earned position.



She put a backwards lunge in our program. This is not an easy move to do for anyone, but particularly not for someone who is old and a little less in shape. It's a hard move but i'm getting it. I worked on it during my practice time this morning and was able to do it well...well at least the getting down there part...,the getting up? yeah um...gotta work on that a bit more for sure. It was ummmm....yeah.



At the end of practice we did this circle thing a conditioning exercise...she made me do it twice. The second time my legs gave out, but i did manage to make it through most of it. It's frustrating to still have issues keeping up, but i do ok and i'm certainly not the slowest or the most akward, so that makes it better.



Anyway...just thinking about synchro...hoping my toe starts to play more nicely so i can practice again in the morning...tomorrow should be better...i'm giving it some time to breathe/heal a bit this afternoon. I might go upstairs and my skate punched some more, but we'll see how it is.