Day Thirty: Effortless Skating

Let's make this short. It's 3am and tomorrow is going to be interesting.

Aikido/Fitness: Lots of awesome things today. Ankles / foot tendons starting to give out - they did not expect to be running backwards in tight, alternating circles for days on end. These things happen. We were taught Effortless Running today... (Why today? I've been running all damn week...)

Derby: I was working on my hockey stops until I just couldn't get the traction I needed anymore. So, as I idly skate along, gutted beyond belief, I think... "Could the principles of Effortless Running be applied to skating?" So, I started to skate "Effortlessly".... and yes. These principles can be applied. The only thing is I can assume it will take more than two minutes of practice as I was going extremely fast, but my muscles weren't engaged as they were completely relaxed. After doing seven laps at top speed I went from being shattered to rested because of the lack of strength I had to use to put down the power. I did unfortunately crash like a champion a couple of times when some of the inline hockey players cut me off and I'll need to think about how to apply the principles to stopping... unfortunately we had the same issue in the dojo while running and Peter did point out once you were running it wasn't easy to stop.

This amount of effort is required to travel at top speed

Diet: I can not believe how stressed I was today. Could barely eat breakfast (weetbix/banana) had a mammoth sandwich for lunch, some biscuits and tea, then mostly bread with cheese for dinner. Couldn't rustle up an appetite for much else, I hope I feel better tomorrow.

Sleep: Around six hours last night, not going to be enough tonight. I forgot about getting some gloves earlier for the boxing section of my workshop so I'll need to arrange that first thing, just a general mess of things. I was going to go to skate training on Sunday but I think it's going to have to be a pass to get back into my workshop. If I manage to teach them effortless skating on Tuesday, maybe all will be forgiven...?



Bad feeling that I'm going to still be stressed tomorrow. I wish I could shake it off like water off a dog, hopefully some boxing will help with that.