Patience
I was thinking about how much patience it requires to become a skier. I was thinking this mostly as I was watching everyone else skate away from me and I was trying to decide whether to maintain x effort and get dropped (yes, still on the warm-up) or work harder and ski faster to keep up. I decided to ski at the pace I thought was appropriate for my workout. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the other APU skiers were skiing too fast-- It's me that's a slow rollerskier. Rollerskiing appears to take a certain skill that I haven't been able to master yet. I'm working on it and I'm better than I used to be, but I still rollerski with the slowest of 'em. So I have to wait all summer for the snow-skiing when I feel like I'm back in my element. And it's easier to wait if I'm patient, more frustrating if I'm impatient. (Although it would make me happiest if I could just figure out how to rollerski as fast as everyone else.)
At least now there's one thing I don't have to be patient about: training hours. I've always felt that I've had to restrict my training hours to a reasonable increase from the year before to build up a progression of yearly hours. Now that took patience. Especially when I wanted to be a much better skier than I'd been training to be in the past and a coach would say, "so you trained about 425 hrs last year, this year you can do 475" and I would think, no I have to train more than that if I want to be competitive. But I mostly managed to follow the general training progression and probably because I waited and increased my training each year per coaches' advice I avoided any serious overtraining or burnout. Now though, I've built the base and I get to train as much as I'd like (and as negotiated with Erik).
Enough gloating though, I don't want to make the many many people who aren't so fortunate to get to spend as much time training as they'd like to jealous. Now I have to solve the how-to-rollerski puzzle. I don't know that I'll ever be a rollerski master but it would be nice to be able to keep up with people. I'll have to figure out some tricks to make rollerskiing easier. hmmm.
At least now there's one thing I don't have to be patient about: training hours. I've always felt that I've had to restrict my training hours to a reasonable increase from the year before to build up a progression of yearly hours. Now that took patience. Especially when I wanted to be a much better skier than I'd been training to be in the past and a coach would say, "so you trained about 425 hrs last year, this year you can do 475" and I would think, no I have to train more than that if I want to be competitive. But I mostly managed to follow the general training progression and probably because I waited and increased my training each year per coaches' advice I avoided any serious overtraining or burnout. Now though, I've built the base and I get to train as much as I'd like (and as negotiated with Erik).
Enough gloating though, I don't want to make the many many people who aren't so fortunate to get to spend as much time training as they'd like to jealous. Now I have to solve the how-to-rollerski puzzle. I don't know that I'll ever be a rollerski master but it would be nice to be able to keep up with people. I'll have to figure out some tricks to make rollerskiing easier. hmmm.
posted by LAV at 18:38
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"It's me that's a slow rollerskier." I'll bet your slow is about three times faster than my fastest, but I've found that keeping the wheels down is helpful. You knew that, though, right?
Dumb jokes aside, and just out of obsessively-logging-my-hours curiosity: what is "slow" in min/mi or min/km, on average?
oh dear, I have no idea. I don't keep track of distances and don't even really know what the distances are around here yet. If I stay on a road with mile markers for at least two markers I will time it and let you know.
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