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flameravenUgh. So, we had our (now) weekly Sunday practice. And it was... painful.
It started with jogging. This was a bad sign. Normally, we just do stretches and the work on whatever dance. So first we had to climb over the fence to get out to the track (and I was lucky there was a bicycle parked next to it, or I'd never have gotten over; the fence is easily six feet high and I can't jump that), and then... yeah. We were jogging. Now, this track is next to the river, and runs in a circle basically from one bridge to the other. It is... probably two miles for the full circuit. I actually asked them if we were going to run the whole circuit-- surely not, right? I mean, that's a long jog for everybody. Techi said we'd probably only run half.
Anyway. I did try, but I think I got a few hundred yards in and gave up. I am not built for jogging. The last time I was forced to jog was years ago in high school, and I sucked at it then. Running almost two miles straight off? No. It wasn't happening. I don't have the endurance, and I was also wearing sandals, which work for dance practice but not for jogging. I walked. Techi stayed back and walked with me, which made me feel kinda bad, but I was not going to kill myself trying to do the impossible. We walked about half the circuit, and then raced each other across the middle as a shortcut. I was actually beating Techi, even in sandals, which seemed to surprise her, but... well. I can run fairly fast for short stretches, but jogging slowly just really doesn't do me any favors.
Afterwards, we did our stretches, and then finally headed back to school. It was already after two. We'd used almost an hour of practice time, and hadn't actually done anything.
So we started dancing, and ran through four of the songs one right after another before we finally took a break. Then we ran through three more of the songs. There was another short break, and then we went back to working on "Matcha." We got almost to the end of the song, but still didn't finish. ;_; I mean, I can't feel too bad, I was doing well, better than some of the other new students, and I even got better at the one part I keep missing, but damn. It's a hard song. Awesome and fun, but very hard. (For reference, it's the video that I linked a few weeks back.)
We finished around 4:30, and I left almost immediately to go eat-- I was starving. I'd already gulped down a liter of "sports water" (basically Pocari Sweat or Aquarius-- they're all the same flavor of Gatorade-esque sports drink). I went home and devoured the bento I'd bought at the konbini that morning in minutes, and then went back to the konbini and bought more food. The rest of the evening I sat and watched episodes of Bleach and played Zelda and tried not to move too much, because everything hurt.
Ow.
It started with jogging. This was a bad sign. Normally, we just do stretches and the work on whatever dance. So first we had to climb over the fence to get out to the track (and I was lucky there was a bicycle parked next to it, or I'd never have gotten over; the fence is easily six feet high and I can't jump that), and then... yeah. We were jogging. Now, this track is next to the river, and runs in a circle basically from one bridge to the other. It is... probably two miles for the full circuit. I actually asked them if we were going to run the whole circuit-- surely not, right? I mean, that's a long jog for everybody. Techi said we'd probably only run half.
Anyway. I did try, but I think I got a few hundred yards in and gave up. I am not built for jogging. The last time I was forced to jog was years ago in high school, and I sucked at it then. Running almost two miles straight off? No. It wasn't happening. I don't have the endurance, and I was also wearing sandals, which work for dance practice but not for jogging. I walked. Techi stayed back and walked with me, which made me feel kinda bad, but I was not going to kill myself trying to do the impossible. We walked about half the circuit, and then raced each other across the middle as a shortcut. I was actually beating Techi, even in sandals, which seemed to surprise her, but... well. I can run fairly fast for short stretches, but jogging slowly just really doesn't do me any favors.
Afterwards, we did our stretches, and then finally headed back to school. It was already after two. We'd used almost an hour of practice time, and hadn't actually done anything.
So we started dancing, and ran through four of the songs one right after another before we finally took a break. Then we ran through three more of the songs. There was another short break, and then we went back to working on "Matcha." We got almost to the end of the song, but still didn't finish. ;_; I mean, I can't feel too bad, I was doing well, better than some of the other new students, and I even got better at the one part I keep missing, but damn. It's a hard song. Awesome and fun, but very hard. (For reference, it's the video that I linked a few weeks back.)
We finished around 4:30, and I left almost immediately to go eat-- I was starving. I'd already gulped down a liter of "sports water" (basically Pocari Sweat or Aquarius-- they're all the same flavor of Gatorade-esque sports drink). I went home and devoured the bento I'd bought at the konbini that morning in minutes, and then went back to the konbini and bought more food. The rest of the evening I sat and watched episodes of Bleach and played Zelda and tried not to move too much, because everything hurt.
Ow.
