Wow, this has been one of the quietest weekends for a long time and I almost coasted to a stop. This afternoon I was really feeling a bit run down though... rest is something we need just as much as Go.
Challenge update: Diet!
This is why this can't be TBT, because I bailed on the "clean diet"... but I can elaborate regardless. I have all sorts of other minor issues with food due to a particular illness I had when I was about eight, which is why I don't truck with restrictive diets. Any diet with the word "No" in front of anything I just glaze over, it's not for me. We all know we shouldn't pig out on junk food and crap, but I'm also insanely lazy. When I get hungry, it's never a very strong driving force, and I can (and used to) often ignore it because I couldn't be bothered preparing food or getting up out of bed (my bed doubles as a desk, so I spend an inordinate amount of time on it). Sometimes after training for four hours I'll think, "I shouldn't waste all that by eating maccas for dinner," and the damn roast place shuts at 8.30pm, so I'll come home around 10pm-ish and then be too tired to bother cooking anything most nights. Oh, also there's no snack food here despite the fact I do the shopping. It is always consumed by others before I even get to crack the box on anything. So getting home around 10pm, needing a shower, after 3 - 4 hours of whatevs, (gym/aikido/derby/funsies), haven't been home since 7am... yea. Cooking a healthy and consumable meal for one? Effort plus plus.
Anyway:
Fitness: Rest day from the gym again. Legs still hate me though. I don't think we're ever going to be good friends again. They cry a little inside whenever they see stairs. And there are stairs everywhere.
Aikido: No training, watching the jo suburi on youtube. I can physically do them, I'm actually very good with the jo but I need to remember the names and order for grading.
Derby: Inspired the title. I don't really look to the other freshies to judge my skill level, I only really compare myself to the league girls because that's how I'll excel. This gives me a strong driving force to improve because most of them have been skating at least a year longer than I have (and most of them for quite a bit longer). I find it mildly intimidating being the least skillful but at least I managed to put it into words what my major malfunction was today. I find it very difficult to drive with my left leg, hence I've been doing hockey stops on the right leg only while completely unable to even turn properly with the left. The moment I found out this was a problem nearly everyone had, it was like the fog had been lifted. If everyone faced this problem, and overcame it, well... maybe I could too. So you know what I did? Left hockey stops. I did left hockey stops. One or two of them were even vaguely passable! (More exciting than jumping backwards!) Plus I don't need to counter-swoop into them as much, although I'm still building up the speed at which I will throw them down. I'm actually really excited. Some techniques need to be built to a certain level before I feel confident practicing them ad nauseum to lock them in (otherwise you skate around in circles thinking, "I should do X technique...." and still thinking that ten laps later, just doing crossovers) and I feel I have hockey stops at that level. This was my number one priority "learn this technique" for Derby over these 90 days - Hockey Stop Right, Hockey Stop Left. On my way, baby! I'm gonna be able to throw on the brakes at full force to match my speed! Just so excited. Now all I need is a public session and some "me time" on the rink.
Diet: Yarr, weetbix and tea for breakfast. Some sort of bumperbar, chocolate milk and a sausage for lunch, more tea, then reward salmon and avocado for dinner, strawberry yoghurt and blueberries for desert. I'm aware it was another very poorly constructed day for food stuffs but I was only hungry after skating and I am really, really struggling to be driven enough to eat what I should ideally consume on rest days to help rebuild my system. C'mon body, snacks not naps!
Sleep: So, yes, I did end up playing Dune 2 last night until some stupid hour of the morning (it's always just one more level!) so I only got about 6 hours sleep last night. I was going to go to sleep sometime around 11 tonight though so that easily gives me 8 hours which is the maximum my body will put up with in a single go. it'll also recalibrate me back to 6am wake-up, awfully convenient. Here's hoping the trains are running approximately on time tomorrow.
Eep. I know it's only day eleven and this weekend I've been a bit lax - but I can't even remember the last time I had some proper downtime that I wasn't just cracking my teeth to get everything done. Plus it's mightily harder for me to maintain over the weekends because I do love a bit of structure to help support my goals and weekends severely lack that. Self Improvement kick or no, I think I needed the space. Back into it tomorrow with a vengeance.
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