I skated for about 3 hours this morning, and it was really discouraging. I wasn’t particularly tired, and I wasn’t sore like I was from doing too many side lunges and squats in my at-home workout last week, but I just felt really sluggish and awkward on the ice today. My left knee isn’t holding up well to skating twice a week (for about 6 hours total). It is sore pretty much all the time now, and it gets very stiff very quickly if I take a short break from skating (e.g. for ice resurfacing). I’m still struggling with my forward outside and inside double 3-turns and with any maneuver that involves my left back outside edge (e.g. clockwise backward crossovers, backward swing rolls, chasses or progressives). I don’t know if it’s related to the pain my my left knee or not, but I am really having difficulty getting comfortable over my left side, especially when going backwards. And I just can’t get the kind of power that I need to fill out the patterns on the Bronze dances.

On the positive side, my backward power 3-turns felt better than usual today, and I’m definitely making progress on keeping my hips pulled up and in check in general.  I worked my forward inside 3-turns quite a bit today, as well as the 8-step mohawk sequence from the Juvenile moves, and those were feeling more secure by the end of the session today. Sigh. I hope that I’m feeling less sluggish and clumsy on Friday for my lesson with Leone.

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