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BY PASQUALE TEOLI - THIRD EPISODE - "The Long Summer'' towards the Olympics"
Monday 22 July 2013 6 minutes reading time
It seems like yesterday and yet it's been three months from the end of last season. I took some time to take a breath, doing nothing, thinking about something else and, after all, having fun is not just dedicate finally something different. That which was completed in late April has been a spectacular season and the one that promises just as well.
I have learned many lessons, I received the shots (very few this time) and lived emotions. Different emotions, lived under the sign of maturity, because the years pass and the perception of what you do, the results you get, no small change.
Two months in Italy I have regenerated and at the same time saturated, because, as usual when I get home I want to do what I can not months in Detroit: make compulsory medical examinations, request documents, see all your friends, liaise with the universities'' (Sochi approaches but also the degree ...), going to skate around a bit'' not lose the taste to breathe the atmosphere of the'' ice, go a bit 'of our beautiful Italy (even with my parents whom I never see). This time I have lived great moments in Rome. I was already in the heart, but the past few days with the young skaters in the capital and their families have been particularly pleasing.
And then it has resumed training. Giulia Staccioli (former Olympic gymnast) and Eva D love'' (also Olympic athlete and former coach of the legendary Butterflies) had key roles in the initial training sessions, the first steps towards the Olympics. Two months of work geared towards improving muscle elasticity, what gymnasts do every day and that I have dealt with very seriously, albeit with much more modest performance of those wonderful athletes who envied around the world .
Finally, another key step: the change of shoes. A classic routine of this period. You always hope to be able to "smollarli", that is, to soften them in a short time, because at the beginning it is already difficult to get back on the ice after work to dry and if you put a pair of new shoes, inevitably drives , things get complicated. Now that I've opened the fashion of tempestarli of shiny rhinestones and colorful, at least I have a form of entertainment that makes them love me more from the earliest times calzo them.
Now I came back to the base, ie in Detroit, a month abundant. Curious: when they are across the ocean I always have a great desire to go home, but once at home I have to admit that my teammates and the'' American atmosphere I miss a lot. The hard work has already begun and closer I have not given a real holiday, although during summer training I'm taking many small weekend that allow me to breathe and to live a week like a normal girl, the kind that allow some output, pizza, ice cream, study and many friends.
A Bloomfield Hills are a beautiful group, all beautiful tired in these times of load, but natural because the tension of the race is far from over.
After a week in which we have worked only pieces of the program, on Friday I tried to get to the end.'' C The first time is always a bit of fear, not to get to the end, to make a mess or "burst" in the middle of the program ... result: did not go all bad, some c'' is still much work to do but I have a feeling that this program will appeal to many, and I'll enjoy a lot '' this year to grow with him!
The weather in Michigan has not still got a lot of sun, so no tan. It does not matter, we'll work after Sochi. This summer is important for other reasons. I'm not alone and the path seems less difficult.
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