Sunday, July 24, 2011

Swiming & Sunday morning inline

It's the early morning right now, only 8:10 in the morning, and I'm up.
I guess the question "why?" is going up....Since today it's sunday, the resting day.
Back at Israel, before I came to train as a pro skater, I used to train on Sat mornings....Early hours (5-7am), when there were few cars on the roads....It was very normal to train at those hours when you are working at the office the other days of the week.
Now in Russia, I train in the mornings at normal hours, just like a normal person who goes to work everyday, after all, this is my work now :)

The coach said I could use some swiming to improve endurance a bit more, but my swiming really sucks !
I did my homework on the YouTube and when I got to the pool, AHAH ! It was so hard to do what I seen...My pulse went so high, so quick....Just cause I breath very wrong underwater...Well here is a new goal...Learning to swim, I'm sure it will only do good.
The plan is going to the pool, 1-2 times a week for 30-60min.


The swiming pool inside the ice rink building
Today I said, I don't really care this is my resting day, I want to skate the roads in the early morning, when there are few cars, the weather is good and chilly and I can double push my miles with fun !
And so I DID ! I woke up at 6:30 today, had my coffee and little cake (Sugar) and at 07:00 I hit the roads to Moscow....It started really good, the wind was with me, the drivers have been really nice, and the skating went very good, as I watched my GPS tracker, I was already at avg speed of 33-34km/h.
The 1st uphill came and I burned it....The sign saying "82km to Moscow" was looking good....And than....
The road became a highway....Cars were driving on 100km/h + , and I said this is the time to turn around.
Unlucky me, I was only on 10km :(
I finished this training on 20km with 30km/h avg speed, which is quite nice for a solo training on the roads, next time I'll get up more early so I can even use the highway road....
Maybe with some luck I'll find someone to join me, but it will be a little problem, since the Russian guys think I'm crazy for even skating on the road with cars....Oh well, Ice skaters can't really understand me and where I came from....

Area map from my GPS

Training info

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