The reason
why I started skating was a simple one, I have had an operation on my knee and that
took me out of sports for over six months. After that I had to recover and ice
speed skating was one of the sports I was allowed to do. The movement of
skating is a controlled, sliding one, running is with every step you make an
attack on your limbs and muscles. Skating however has the disadvantage of
falling, well that is what I do on a regular base.
This week I
was skating a new route to try out that I had drawn on Endomondo. The path I took
was surprisingly good, better than I hoped for. The start was part of a route
my son and I take often, the track was along a dike but now I took a detour.
It started
with tiles and a bridge, after that part it was concrete of a good quality.
While I was skating I was looking on my phone to check out the route I had to
take, and then there was a 1 cm rise of
the next plate which I missed.
In a glance
I remembered my falling of last year where I injured my shoulder and was taken
to the hospital for a checkup. This time I fell on the same shoulder and after
that on my head. As a result some road rash on my knee, a heavily bleeding
finger, damaged shoes and a little stone embed in my helmet.
This is the
main reason why I am wearing a helmet these days every time we go skating, I really
hope that all of you also wear one. I was used to skate without a helmet and
only wearing wrist pads. After we went to the first FNS of Almere we decided to
make an example of us to other skaters by wearing our helmets. Now I was happy
with that decision!
This week I
have skated almost 100 km, and I think I am getting better and are stronger
than a month ago. Today I skated 21.70 km alone and this evening another 19.43
km with my son. Normally I have to recover of skating, but this time I even had
enough power left to keep up with his ending sprint back home. Despite all of
my inline skating, my weight loss is still behind schedule I hope it will
change again soon.
For sure this
summer will be great!
Ed van
Harmelen
May 2012
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Achievements
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Goals 2012
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So far achieved
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2011
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Weight
goal
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87.0 kg
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100.6 kg
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107.0 kg
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Weight
loss
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20.0 kg
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6.4 kg
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5.0 kg
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Kcal
burned
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200,000 Kcal
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95,508 Kcal
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48,500 Kcal
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Distance
exercises
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3,600 km.
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1.755 km.
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1,600 km.
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Best time
half marathon (skeelers)
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50:00
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0:54:38
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1:04:04
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Best time
marathon (skeelers)
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1:50:00
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2:07:29
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2:37:36
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