I had to miss practice this week because of a conference I had to attend in Toronto. Toronto is very clean and spacious, and my presentation went well. I did get some exercise--lots of walking. LOTS. MILES. The host hotel was quite far from the school where the sessions were being given, and though we had school buses for transportation some of the time, we were also given subway tokens for several of the trips--and the subway stations were not very close to either end. Also, we walked to dinner. Unfortunately, much of the walking (because I had to give a professional impression, and because I hadn't expected that much walking) was done in heels. Comfortable heels, mind you, but still I got a blister on the sole of my front foot and another on my toe. Fortunately, that was near the end of the conference and I could switch to sneakers for the Blue Jays game (which we walked to), and yesterday I took a bus tour and a harbor tour, which didn't involve any walking. My feet seem to have healed, mostly. The Blue Jays defeated the Cincinnati Reds 14-1.
My coach wanted me to give a talk to the camp about mental toughness and training to win. He didn't get it together to schedule me last week, and I'm not going to do it today or tomorrow even if he does ask.
06-26-2008 11:26 AM