Day Fifty: Surprise Nap!

I'm having an egotistical moment. Whether it's justified or not will be reflected in the months to come. Limey said I looked different on Tuesday night, now that I'd played my first game, much like after someone has had sex for the first time. I didn't really agree right in that moment as I was in quite a determined mind frame about training at the time. But now, I can feel it settling around me, like my mind has been opened to the possibilities of what I could do. Was I holding back before? Not really. I was limited by what I could imagine due to a lack of experience. I felt the impact of it but was struggling to quantify it (frustration!). Now I know what it is, and it seems surmountable. Hard to put into words - I don't want to be better just for my own sake any longer. I want to be better for the team.  

I feel like an after school special having said that.
Doesn't make it any less true.

Somethings I felt good about, others were a bit more disconcerting. The tendon along the top of my left foot was playing up and really did not want to play "frontal blocking" at all. Other than that, fortunately the whiplash doesn't really impact on Derby, I was concerned some of the drills would be uncomfortable, but they weren't any more painful than if I'd just been standing there.



Fitness: Hour of Aikido, two hours of skating. We discussed the differences in training, (for the sake of training/weight loss etc) and training for a sport when you need those same muscles at full capacity for games and the like. I feel a research day coming on.

Aikido: We had a lot of close focus on improving forward rolls, which I loved, because one of my goals for Aikido is to get my rolling to the point I can do it on hard surfaces without issue. The only thing was I can't roll over my left shoulder at the moment so my right got all the attention! Then we did a lot of one particular technique for the rest of the session, which is unusual but freed me to really get some core aspects of it.

Derby: I arrived at the court with a bucket load of determination and identified several areas where my feet or weight don't move the way I want. It's cool. Reminder to self that if we were all perfect we wouldn't go to training. Being able to concisely identify what I want/need to work, aimed at becoming more of a team asset, is a step up from just randomly picking individual skills to hone. My hockey stops are coming along nicely, the right is progressing to almost functional and the left is still in the beginning stages my right went through, so I assume that means it just needs a little more time (and effort) to catch up. Not a surprise, just something to note. They still remain at the top of the list of new skill to have nailed by Day Ninety. It will happen.

Diet: Weetbix, banana, two muffins (Thank you, Ports of Auckland!) some tea and biscuits for breakfast. And then I had a mad hankering for butter chicken and cheese naan... I hardly ever get cravings for Indian food. Anyway so I went and got that for lunch, forgot to secure any training snacks so only had water until I got home for dinner, when I had chicken wrapped in bacon. I was hugely disappointed we didn't have any brie, but this is my fault. So I ate two pieces of processed cheese instead. Not particularly healthy but necessary fuel replacement. Ah. And two blackberries.

Lunch time. I thought, "I'll just watch an episode of ponies..."
and I was asleep before the hydra tried to kill them all.

Sleep: I got up at 7ish after six hours sleep then coma'ed at work during my lunch break. It was strange, normally I feel tired and nap as a result, but I wasn't tired.. I was sleepy. This has only ever happened to me three times before. Being sleepy is weird to me.




That being said it's just gone 11.30pm so it's totally time to go to bed right now. Clean, fed, blogged, DONE.