montanarose
07-28-2004, 11:57 PM
The good news is: for my birthday this year, my husband gave me the gift of the Aspen (CO) Adult Summer Skate Week, which is coming up the second week in August. The bad (well, at least, daunting) news is that I just received the schedule -- yikes!
Every day there are one or more freestyle classes, an edge class, a power stroking session, an off-ice session, an open dance session, a group class, and on some days dance/moves classes as well. Plus a two-hour off-ice session and a three-hour on-ice session with Ann Margreth Frei. If you do the math, this comes out to an average of five hours/day on-ice plus one hour/day off-ice. And in a weak moment I decided that I also needed a private lesson daily (what WAS I thinking 8O ?).
The catch is this: especially this summer, where the motto of most of our local rinks is either "all hockey, all the time" or "all kids, all the time," I'm lucky if I can log five to seven hours of on-ice time per week.
I'd be curious to hear from anyone out there who has done an intensive skating week/camp where you significantly ramp up the number of hours spent on-ice vs. your normal skating regimen. Besides packing my Skating Safe knee and butt pads and my big bottle of Aleve, any tips for surviving such an ordeal?
Every day there are one or more freestyle classes, an edge class, a power stroking session, an off-ice session, an open dance session, a group class, and on some days dance/moves classes as well. Plus a two-hour off-ice session and a three-hour on-ice session with Ann Margreth Frei. If you do the math, this comes out to an average of five hours/day on-ice plus one hour/day off-ice. And in a weak moment I decided that I also needed a private lesson daily (what WAS I thinking 8O ?).
The catch is this: especially this summer, where the motto of most of our local rinks is either "all hockey, all the time" or "all kids, all the time," I'm lucky if I can log five to seven hours of on-ice time per week.
I'd be curious to hear from anyone out there who has done an intensive skating week/camp where you significantly ramp up the number of hours spent on-ice vs. your normal skating regimen. Besides packing my Skating Safe knee and butt pads and my big bottle of Aleve, any tips for surviving such an ordeal?