Getting ready for ice season....

A lot of things are on my mind during this time, I got the ice season in Russia coming very soon, that is the biggest thing I been training for.
The ice season should be open at 5/9 and at 1/9 I will be back to Russia, for last trainings.
This 2 weeks in Israel were really hard for my training, here unlike Russia, I don't have a team to train with and this has a HUGE effect of the way you train, also the weather is really hot, it's very hard to go skate or do some dryland outside when it's 35+ degrees.
So if I want to cycle with good riders, I have to wake up at 5am in the morning, and if I want to skate with a normal weather I have to wait till the late evening hours, that kind of killed my days here.
I tried to meet with friends and people but this routine was a bit hard for me here, so I guess I'll leave a few people mad that we didn't had the chanse to meet.
The biggest news are, that this ice season will be a very big test for my skills and the cornerstone for my skating career, if I will bring results, Israel will support me with the help of federation, that is something I will need very much for my 2nd year, I belive in my self, and very soon it will be my show time.
I also got a lot of work to do so I can compete on the ice in October, and not to talk about this vication in Israel which I really try to keep a routine of training like in Russia, but it's really hard.
So I skated with 1000 road cyclers, on the protest event for 2 cyclers that died on the road by a car.

I'm trying to follow the Peleton of riders :)

1000 riders showed up to the protest cycling

I skated in the Tel-Aviv parks at early crazy hours like 6:00am trying to chase road cyclers on the morning inline training.

A cycling peleton in the park

The skating/cycling lane in Tel-Aviv park

 I even went to do some pre-season, ice skating in the north of israel.
Sadly my speedskating boots are in Russia, so I had to use figure skating once.

Ice rink at Metula,Israel (short track size)

 One of the better parts was to meet the Tel-Aviv social skating group, a great skating on the roads of Tel-Aviv with a 200+ skaters group.

And I got my new necklace ! :)

 Of course, since I'm on a visit, touring the city with a good friend was something had to be done, so me and Ilanit went to see the city from way up on the highest building in Tel-Aviv. (Azrieli mall)

The view from the roof

My friend Ilanit

So I got tons of photos, and tons of videos waiting to be edited.....All that will start in a few days when I'll be back in Russia for ice season.