New Skating RInk: Awesome!
Feb. 13th, 2019 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeMy right hip: less awesome!
So I went to this place because it's the only rink I could find with weekday evening public skate and it turns out that it's an outdoor rink with a roof! I've never been to one before! It was colder than a normal rink because there was a bit of a breeze but not bad at all.
And it was not busy at all.
The busiest the rink got was like 7 people and that was including the staff of teenage hockey boys on the ice. At more than one point, I was the only person on the ice.
It was awesome.
I did better at my left crossovers and after I'd been alone on the ice a little bit, I decided to change direction (sidenote, why do rinks only go counter clockwise????) and after about five minutes my right hip cramped up, which I wasn't expecting at all. I'd been having issues with my right skate skidding and couldn't figure out if it was the skate or if it was how I was skating, my right hip wasn't doing that at all. I suspect it's my hip, not doing the pushoff correctly because of a lack of developed muscle. Crossovers were done but not great because I had no flexibility in that hip.
I skated with long johns on and I don't think it made a difference. I also need to pick up some thin gloves because I don't have any.
I'm definitely going to go back, with so few people, I can work in the other direction to build those muscles up.
Two weeks until lessons!
So I went to this place because it's the only rink I could find with weekday evening public skate and it turns out that it's an outdoor rink with a roof! I've never been to one before! It was colder than a normal rink because there was a bit of a breeze but not bad at all.
And it was not busy at all.
The busiest the rink got was like 7 people and that was including the staff of teenage hockey boys on the ice. At more than one point, I was the only person on the ice.
It was awesome.
I did better at my left crossovers and after I'd been alone on the ice a little bit, I decided to change direction (sidenote, why do rinks only go counter clockwise????) and after about five minutes my right hip cramped up, which I wasn't expecting at all. I'd been having issues with my right skate skidding and couldn't figure out if it was the skate or if it was how I was skating, my right hip wasn't doing that at all. I suspect it's my hip, not doing the pushoff correctly because of a lack of developed muscle. Crossovers were done but not great because I had no flexibility in that hip.
I skated with long johns on and I don't think it made a difference. I also need to pick up some thin gloves because I don't have any.
I'm definitely going to go back, with so few people, I can work in the other direction to build those muscles up.
Two weeks until lessons!
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Date: 2019-02-14 02:31 am (UTC)Rinks only go counter-clockwise because most people are right-side dominant and want their right leg on the outside of turns. It takes active determination to get lots of people to go the other way.
Staying warm after you skate is often trickier than staying warm enough while skating; the "I'm cold now, aiee" muscle consequences are no fun. (Same with electrolyte crashes; just because you're doing it in the cold doesn't mean you can't get a potassium crash.)
Warm thin gloves are lamentably pricy, even now.
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Date: 2019-02-14 12:06 pm (UTC)I do turn up the heat when I get back in the truck but I also need to remember to bring a blanket for my lap.
I actually skated with my coat on while I warmed up and then I started getting too warm so I ditched it for my normal long sleeve compression shirt- t-shirt- hoodie combo, which was surprisingly good despite the breeze in the rink.
I would even take non warm thin gloves because I've been wearing nothing on my hands. I don't like wearing my thick winter gloves so I need to pick some up. My hands actually stay pretty warm if I pull my hoodie sleeves down a little.