Knackered#

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:01:39 +0000

This is not in any way an interesting post, but ...

As the LFNS was rained off last night I decided I should do some kind of exercise to compensate, and seeing as I have these new weights around, that was the obvious choice. I'm still evolving a routine, but figure that if sport-specificity is the way to go, (1) squats, (2) one-legged squats (occassions for skating on two legs are rare and occur mostly on downhills), and (3) a bit of armwaving and other stuff just to balance things out. But I am being very very careful about how much weight I squat, because my knee complains at the slightest little thing (more so if it's not thoroughly warmed up) and as a result I finished a couple of sets of various stuff feeling that I hadn't done much after all.

This morning I felt slightly sore (which suggests that maybe I had done something after all) but not so much so that it wouldnt stop me skating into town to do route check and some drills on the Beach. This evening, 33km later (plus drills) I'm significantly more sore. More so than I'd expect for what was mostly a fairly lazy day of drills (one-legged skating through cones, which I am better at now than I was this morning, but still can't actually do). I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm hoping for rain tomorrow, but I won't be giving the bike a lot of welly.

Oh, top "learn from my stupidity" tip: dumbbell "bench" press on a swiss ball that's too big is not a good idea if there's other furniture around, because you will hit it when you roll off the ball.