Extending the glide, volume III#

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:52:39 +0000

Between discussing it with Mike at the Long Slow on Saturday, and practising it on my own as often as I remember, I think this gliding business is starting to make sense. I'm still utterly failing to find a form of words that explains it any more clearly than my rambling [[back at Christmas time => happy christmas]] and it remains to be seen whether what I think I'm doing actually corresponds to what I am doing, but it feels faster at least. I certainly seem to be able to get a much slower cadence.

Last night I went woefully underprepared (next time take water and a towel: I think I lost about half a pint in sweat) to a spinning class. This morning, feeling unaccountably perky at 9am, I skated to work and found that the bus lane on Old St has been resurfaced and is now actually pretty lovely (not least because I met no buses anywhere along it). Door to door was about a ten-fifteen minute trip, I think, but the trouble is that so much of it is traffic-dependent: it's hard to get much of a stride going when filtering between lanes...