What an amazing Friday, I'm already looking forward to the next one! But it started in a messy, sleepy, stressy fashion. Now I was expecting a day off work when I woke up this morning as I am on an internship program, so get training every Friday from 10am till 3pm. Everyone knows that.
I woke up at 7am to have a nice leisurely start and do some chores etc.. when for some daft (not so daft) reason I checked my online shift rota (Dayforce) through sleep dazed eyes. To my horror it says 'Friday 20th 8am-9am' ... No! The next bus is at 7:06. I need to be dressed. Packed. Fed. And ready to run for the bus in 3 minutes to make it in time.
I throw on the nearest clothes, chuck some thermals and socks into my day bag and charge up stairs still putting on my t shirt. My housemate Michael was in the kitchen already talking to his family over breakfast, and I stumble in and yell 'grab me my loaf of bread!' He looks confused but obliges as I hurriedly stamp on my batman shoes, and rush back. Whilst snatching my bread from his fist I explain it's my breakfast, lunch and possibly dinner and I'm on set up (8am-9am in the yard.)
Good news, I made the bus. Completed my shift. And even found the time to grab a coffee and steal some peanut butter and jam for my sandwiches. Well done me.
From then it turned amazing - every week we get 4 hours tuition towards our level 2 snowboard instructor course at the end of the season and we started with a BANG! It's so fun to ride together with everyone once more and really challenge ourselves and have fun. Even in this one session I could feel the improvement working and I now have tips and tricks to take away, think over and test when I freeride. Enhancing our riding and developing the core competencies of snowboarding is the name of the game, coming at you with 3 main words:
Quicker (increased speed down the hill/quicker movements when changing edges in turns)
Lower (lower stance)
More (more moving in the lower joints and smaller overall stance)
But it's not all as serious as it sounds. Today we did work around these 3 things but we also learnt how to butter! This is when we shift our weight over our front/back foot, transition into a nose/tail press (balancing on one end of our board) and start to spin around!
Dizzy and tiring work, not to mention super fun! I've been wanting to do this for ages!
We rode all day and I felt so good afterwards, I could feel the burn in my legs for sure! I was working them so hard that they needed some R&R. A session in the hot pools and a stretch was just what the doctor ordered.
Feeling fresh as a daisy I went back to the locker room to polish off my 3rd and final p, b and j sandwich (to turn the frozen jam spreadable I heated it up in the staff microwave, which turned it into hot molten jam. Ouchie to touch (as me the idiot found out) but delicious in sandwich filler form.
In here I met my mates who would be joining me on the CADS course and we headed to the meeting together.
I had no idea what to expect, apart from I knew I had a wacky but sweet course teacher and a fun group to learn with. And it was fascinating. Learning about different physical and mental challenges and how we as 'problem solvers' can adapt and accommodate to these people and give them a new passion was so uplifting and exciting I couldn't keep still! - or maybe that was my 5:30pm cappuccino I thought was a good idea in order to keep me awake (early start and all) but really just made me talk at 100mph and is the reason I am still awake now writing this blog. Thank you caffeine, but maybe we should only have mornings together..!
I carry on with this course all weekend and will definitely update you when I have completed it and tell you all the cool stuff I learnt and did. Tomorrow I learn how to sit-ski!! I'm so excited! So I should go to sleep now and recharge for another early start tomorrow.
Love to all my familly xxx see you next time,
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