Sunday Skate

by | Jan 2, 2012 | exercise, fall, pain

RDV had four hours of public skating today, so four 45-minute sessions.  I made it through three of them. I broke each session into two 10-minute skates with a 5-minute break and ending with a 15-minute skate. The first ten minutes were painful again – my upper...

Monday Clinic

by | Jan 25, 2011 | clinic, equipment, fall

So … yeah … not my most impressive showing at the clinic … On the plus-side, I have a new stick.  The old one was wood, no flex at all and cost $19.99.  New one’s composite, has some flex which may help my shot and was $69 – which is still on the cheap side,...

I’m not the Slowest! (except sometimes)

by | Jan 18, 2011 | clinic, fall

The skating drill at tonight’s clinic was an important milestone for me: I wasn’t the last one across the ice in one of the drills. Yay! So skating drill tonight was goal-line to blue-line forward, then return backward; then the same to the red-line; then the same to...

Monday Clinic

by | Jan 11, 2011 | clinic, fall

Tonight’s clinic started in what I’m going to start calling The Bad Way – that is, goal-line to goal-line skating drills that I’ve described in two of the last three clinic posts.  Not going to elaborate further again. However, they didn’t wear me out as much as...

Monday Clinic

by | Dec 29, 2010 | clinic, fall, injury

Made it to my second Monday clinic and it was a much better experience than the first one.  Coach started us off with laps because no one had stretched – four times around, but I was able to stay with the pack and had no foot pain, so I was pretty pleased about...