Basel Report…
Posted on May 8, 2007
Long before leaving for Switzerland and skating the 2007 WIC, I estimated that my role on this team would be limited and for the most part defined. Skating on a team of established WIC skaters and strong athletes, as a rookie from Canada it was entirely possible that I would be the weakest link on the team, and likely to be the case. It seems as though this is becoming evident. While I feel good for the most part in training, the racing is a different story. I do feel that my fitness is good or at least adequate, but it is as if it isn’t translated into the races. The racing and skating here is so fast that my technique falls apart long before I am able to apply any said fitness. The frustrating thing is that before this happens, I feel as good as ever, and as good as anyone else in the pack. I feel good technically, and was even feeling good on the track during may last few practices (which was a bit of a nice surprise to me). For the first time since I can remember (before accident etc.) I was skating through a corner on a track flat-out, through the apex. While I do think that with some more confidence and control I can run them a little bit faster, I was pleased to feel fast on the track and keeping up just fine, though everything still needs some work, and I fatigue long before everyone else. I think the hardest part of the first part of this season will be managing my rest with training so that I can feel good for the races, but do all the work I need to in training, which, frankly is far more than the other skaters here since I have a large enough gap to close.
I won’t include details of the Basel race in this post, you will have to look under my reports section, as I am hoping to get some traffic there as well as my journal. I will write a full report and you can navigate through “articles”, as well as through “WIC Schedule”.
…I am hoping to type the report up tonight, as I just got back from training at the track. It’s pretty cool to show up to the track and to just have heaps of fast skaters. There are normally at least two packs to jump between if the top guys are ‘killing it’, and both are usually bigger than any pack at a training session in the history of Canadian inline skating. Cool cool cool. Anyway, I will write that report and post it up tout suite. Come back, and take a look through the site to find it!
-A.
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