I’m not the Slowest! (except sometimes)
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...
Boy-child’s Draft Skate
The boy-child’s draft skate was tonight, so we got to see him in context with the other players in his league again and there was some improvement over the first draft – which I didn’t blog about because it was still close to the whole divorce-thing starting and I...
Monday Clinic
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
Last night’s clinic started much the same as my first one – that is to say, lots of end-to-end skating drills. This time, though, I seem to be in a little better shape – I’m still out of breath and dragging at the end, but at least I was able to continue with...
Skate & Shoot
Friday skate & shoot with the boy-child went well. I got some good skating in along with some practice handling the puck. Even practiced my tickle-shot a little … Okay, I’ll explain – some people have a slapshot – well, mine falls more toward the...
Monday Clinic
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...
New Skates, Old Legs
So after a break for the holidays I was able to get on the ice today with the new skates and the Super Feetinserts. Awesome result – the pain in the outside of the left skate is gone completely and most of the heel pain is gone. Still a little bit of discomfort after...
New Skates
Well, I didn’t make it to the lesson this week because I took the kids to dinner with my dad – holidays and all that – but I did make it to skate and shoot last Friday. I had a nice chat with a guy there – Derek, I think, being horrible at remembering names – he’s...
Months of Updates and My First Lesson
So … long time since my last post. Personal issues have kept me mostly off the ice and I won’t get into too many details except to say that if your marriage counselor ever recommends this book: Accept that life as you know it is over, then find yourself some...
Sunday Skate
The Summer Youth League starts July 10 and T will be done with his lessons by then and ready to join a team. I, on the other hand, will be nowhere near ready. :( So the little snot’ll be playing before me. If I could get on the ice more for practice then I might...