Today was one of those days where I skated in the morning for practice, went home to have coffee and change, then off to Pilates, then home to change for my lesson. I'm pooped!
Morning Practice - Mostly I worked on individual elements for my program and then ran the Compulsory Moves routine until I died. Compulsory Moves is looking really nice, though. I took a video of the whole thing and it is under the time limit. Also, I caught my best camel spin to date on video (I don't feel like posting it so you'll just have to believe me). Four revs in camel position and then 10 revs in a scratch spin. That's 14 freaking revs total! My spins are getting so much better! If I do that at the competition that will be HUGE.
The 12 Program Challenge (14/12) - I ran my program twice this morning and then one time during my lesson for Christopher so I have not only met the challenge, I exceeded it! And I have more runs to do this week! *confetti cannons*
Lesson - We spent half of the lesson looking at the Compulsory Moves routine. He seems pleased with it. He would like for me to skate the transitions quicker so that the whole thing flows more. Also, spend more time on the landings! I'm still under time so there is no need to cheapen it by cutting the landings short. My camel spins were okay but they weren't as good as they were this morning. He then proceeded to dig up a video of me from a year and a half ago when I was only able to do 1.5 revs just to show me how much progress I've made. First of all, I was hella surprised that he has a whole library of videos of his skaters to pull from in moments like this and second of all, I have come a long way! Neat! It was refreshing to see that because we sometimes forget about long term progress that has been made and only think about the day-to-day progress which is sometimes negligible. Cool. He then asked to see my Free Skate program and it was okay. He reminded me to look up more on the choreographic step sequence and he wants to add a backspin to my camel to make it a combo. So I ran the second half of the program with these new adjustments and it wasn't a disaster. So I'll work on adding the backspin. I have a few days to get it right. No pressure.
FitBit - So my 2 year old Inspire HR FitBit is dying. RIP faithful friend. BUT! Now is a great time to get a new one! My workplace is giving us $100 towards a fitness thing (gym membership, exercise equipment, trackers, etc) and on top of that, FitBit is having a big sale! So, I was able to get a FitBit Sense for a REALLY good price. It should be here on Wednesday and I'm so excited to have more ways to track my health and activity! Wahoo!
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