Starting the season

Up till last night my hockey training has been about pre-season fitness. which has been great. But last night is what i call hockey Training. Skills sprints, sweating like a pig .. LOVE IT.

First the coach tested our fitness. Started with warm up then 30sec sprints 10 recovery. we did about 10 of these before going to a 5x 2km time trail. It was so hard and i loved every bit of it! the sweat the speed. I have never been the fast girl, or the super fit girl. But last night i stepped up and i was that girl.

I would just like to stop for a minute and give you some more information. On how great this event was for me .
1. This time last year I was 115kgs easy
2.  I am the oldest (by aleast  5-6 years) all of the girls are the standard Uni age, in my club.
3. I am trying out for Division 1 on the Field (which is huge as i have only ever played in goals for most of my life ) so my fitness has to be first rate.
4. I need to focus on my skills so i have to have the fitness before the season.

In the end coach was impressed with my fitness and my strength.  with all my riding  hills my legs have so much strength for sprints. that i was leaving all the other girls for dead.

But it will not take the girls long to get there fitness back. so i still have to get better and there is always room for improvement!

Oh and the weather is fine !!!! so i rode to work this morning. got yelled at from this woman, smoking and driving a bomb of a car. I just smiled and yelled Morning ! haha thought it was just so funny.

Not riding home tonight as OH is taking me out to the movies, and dinner :) yippee. But riding the rest of the week.

Still have the busy week with swimming, hockey training Thursday, starting a running club Friday morning at 5.30am then riding to work. Oh and then the weekend is another Mt warning climb on Saturday morning. Out to dinner and Dreamworld function on Saturday night. Sunday is my long bike ride, Breakfast with my mother-in-law, a 15km run. Plus drinks with a friend going to NZ for 2 months. and somewhere there is full time work, being a mum and washing .. always washing !

Ok back to work now.   One day i hope it starts doing it itself but for now i will have to do :) have a wonderful morning all.

ox
Trace