Crashed & Burned!

I went to the 400m track near my home for a short training session today. I do not like that track too much because the surface is a bit wavy and I always feel horrible skating there for some reason. Lo and behold, I fell on the exact same spot as I did last season. On closer inspection, there was a slight dip in the track surface but it was filled with sand and dust. That was why I did not notice....my wheel got stuck and I went down. To make things worse, I landed in the exact same fashion as my last fall. Same road rash on the bum (and the last one just healed up a few days ago!) and same swollen knee. I soooo don't need this with a race this Sunday. Bummer.

I don't want to go back to that track again tomorrow. You just know that it's wrong when the pharmacist remembers you for your recent purchase of Tegaderm...and you're coming back for more.

On a more positive note, I was not the only one who train on that track! I ran into coach GW of Markham Speed Skating so it was rather nice to chat with him for a bit.

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Ouch. That sucks. Maybe that will result in you skating slower....at my level in Montreal. ;)

On a similar note, 6 of our skaters (a record) went down on Thursdays practice. Not pretty falls either.