Dance! - The Road to Heavies: lesson 24. Date unknown
With some left-over energy...
Concluded: I suck. I have the greatest trouble to remember what I need to practice, during practice there are few moments I remember what I need to do and during class, things aren't any better.
I still haven't got any heavy shoes. I did order them, but they didn't arrive yet.
That is the reason I quit practicing the basic steps at class. I now know that it's just very hard to do so on dance-sneakers. For a dancer who is used to dancing on a pair of heavies it's probably not that special to do the same on a pair of sneakers, simply because he or she has better control over the muscles, but I just can't pull this off.
Besides that, I'm also completely wrecked after the soft-shoe stuff. The teacher is surprised when I decide to head for home when he goes over the dances some students are doing in the next Feis.
Not in my right mind would I think about registering for a competition. Everything just takes so much strength and power and I really get the feeling that it shows in balance and steps.
I head for home and have to take up some very sore muscles for the next two days. I nearly roll out of bed the day after. I overdid it again. I'm wrecked. I can't take this any more. I start to doubt if this is right. I just can't imagine that my age is the problem after I started 2 years ago at age 23. It just can't be.
I also notice how I start to hate all the travelling. I always liked it, going somewhere by public transport, but the 2 hours that it takes me to get there and the 2 hours that it takes me to get back home, start to take it's toll.