By Hayley.
Photo by Hayley.
Hey everyone!
Time seems to be going by so fast and I can’t believe that we are almost at the end of Feb! I think training has changed a lot for me since I got here. At the moment I am finding that solo training really is what I need right now. I do enjoy training in a group sometimes and I have enjoyed it in the past, however for some reason I am finding it hard to train in such large groups right now (which seems stupid because you spend all your time wanting a big group to train with and when you finally get it, it doesn’t live up to expections) although I can’t say that because I have no idea what I was expecting the training is very structured which I guess I am not used to.I plan to go under the radar for a while and focus on my own training, building strength, fitness and basics (this crazy winter seems like a good time for this).
I feel like my internal motivation is at an all time high, despite the snow and the snow under the snow, even though I cannot wall climb the same height as when I left or do rail precisions right now, but I feel like my parkour is improving anyway. Not because I am practicing parkour, but because I am getting fitter, and somehow the snow and darkness is giving me a new strength and confidence.
Had a great week for training last week, 4 days training (a little stupid because I trained wens, thurs, fri, sat, sun) motivation increases towards the end of the week aparently! So Wednesday I had a solo jump at my fave scaffolding and basically just ran around finding stuff to practice precisions on. Thursday was the ‘big group training’ which was ok, but made me realise even more that it just isn’t working for me. Friday, I had a solo ‘hell night’ which lead to the domination of some snow covered stairs, which became more difficult to negotiate when you got under the lights (one would think it would work the other way around).
Saturday I went to the pool, I swam my first ever 2km, and after swimming solidly for around an hour (not too bad I think for a 2k, I was impressed) I had forgotten I was in the middle of a Swedish winter, and was a little shocked on completion that I was in fact in Sweden! The best thing about that swim was that I wasn’t any more tired after the 2000m than when I entered the pool, and still managed to complete another hrs worth of swimming (mostly 50′s and 100′s). Which eased my concerns about getting unfit during this intense winter. On sunday I did some slacklining in -14 snowy weather and then some lite parkour with a couple of Traceurs, did a bit of home conditioning also.
I am hearing great things about what’s going on back home, so I am trying to kick off a ‘hell night’ here in Stockholm. Not sure how keen people will be to do this in the snow, but we’ll see. I think there is even more snow here now than when I arrived which is mental! You have to spend a few minutes just uncovering things before training on them which is interesting… but at least the snow is dry, so you don’t get wet. (you can’t even make snow balls).
It sounds like the NZPK community is getting stronger which is awesome, NZ may not have many people, but it has great people.
I miss training with all you guys in Chch, Dunedin, Southland. (Oh and you probably shouldn’t txt me when you are going to meet up in the octagon, because I’m not going to be there, but I still love you!)
Keep it green peace
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