Good luck in your Adult Pairs debut this weekend! Can't wait to hear all about it.

Aw, thanks, skaternum!
And no matter what happens on the ice I'll be happy when I get to Chocolate World!

Good luck!!

Ok, so Skaternum beat me!
My coach is en route to Hershey today- there are skaters from my rink going!
Good luck Sunday and don't eat too much chocolate!

Have fun! Good luck!

Pat

Thanks, folks. Lots of *Hugs* and *Kisses* for all.

But none for me this week ... it's intensive training time.

(Time to start my "train" of thought: I think I can, I think I ... no, wait. I think WE can, I think WE can ...)

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No, no... it's "WE think WE can! WE think WE can..." (All together you two!!!)

Good luck to you and LoopLoop this weekend!!! And have some chocolate... AFTER the competition!!! After all, this IS Hershey!!!

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Haha. I guess you're right. But I wouldn't dare to speak for Loops. Who knows WHAT she's thinking. (I always assume it's, "Why did I get stuck with HIM?!")

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Hey, since when can you hear that voice in my head?
(You know I'm kidding.)

We just have to remember what John Z told us: the first word of pair skating is "we."

Good luck both of you! Adult pairs are very rare, so it's always good when a new one officially enters the fold. I wish the competition were local so I could watch, but Hershey's a bit far. It will be steamy on the ice, so be prepared.

Nova, have you been making it to lessons? I already missed two of my last three lessons... I blame it on the erratic sleeping schedule induced by my recent trip to Montreal. Hope you guys have worked out that warmup issue... it seems like they are really rushing to get the adult events out of the way, so hopefully you can find a way to get as much time on the ice as possible.

Yup, been making my lesson time on wed mornings at 6:45. It's been singles program like crazy. Plus, coach has been nudging me to do axels. Um, that's not gonna happen that early.

I think we've got our warmup down. We've been practicing a 3-minute spurts for the past few weeks. Since there are only 2 pair teams with 15 minutes for the entire scheduled ice time, I'm guessing (or hoping!) that they'll give us extra time.

We missed you last night at Mt.V.!

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Good luck you too! I didn't realize Hersey was this weekend...I'm sure you guys will do well:]

I skated in the fog there last summer; I think I may have actually disappeared from view at times because I was wearing a white dress.

And it's not just the adult events that have the extra-short warmup time, it's that way all week! Even the novices and up.

We are SO prepared that we don't even NEED a warmup. Ha!

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Can we please get a preview of the pair's elements you guys are planning to do? Good luck. Chocolate will taste great whether you win or lose

First of all, they can't lose. They can only MEDAL!

Secondly, the chocolate part is SO true. It must be part of adult pairs skating. After our first competition in pairs, right after we got off the ice, one of my friends presented us each with chocolate bars! She still does after every competition we do together. I have a really gross picture of us still high on adrenaline, shoving chocolate in our mouths.

I'm not much of a chocolate fan (only really like bitter or dark chocolate), so Loops can eat for 2!

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Me, too, I only really like dark chocolate. My husband really only likes milk chocolate, so we don't have problems with having to share our respective stashes!

(However, we did try the dark Toblerone bar recently--comes in a black triangular tube and has nuggets of honeyed nougat in it. He _did_ like that, so we do have to share that)

One time after skating edge class, one of the skaters shared her chocolate from her trip to London. It was gourmet chocolate from Harrods. Mmm, endorphin rush and chocolate!!!

Best chocolate in the world is on the Continent. I haven't bought any here in Poland, though - it's been too hot to want to eat any, except in ice-cream (I had the most delicious gianduja ice yesterday!).

Anyway, that's off-topic. Best of luck to you - and . Me and Robert are way too chicken to do anything more serious than Interpretive Pairs! Our coach would so love us to do Adult Pairs, but..... no way!

And you might be surprised - friends of ours very unexpectedly took first place at Bracknell as the two couples they were up against (a mother and daughter and their respective partners - now, there's brave!) had only been skating together a few weeks, and it showed. Nobody scored more than 1.9 in the whole competition - and that was good enough to win!

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Hey Nova,

If you need me to Tonya Harding anyone you know how to reach me

I don't think I've got any jobs yet this month;]

Sshhhhhh!!!! Not so loud!

But thanks for the offer, mskater, or should I call you m-Gillooly from now on?

Hmm, maybe I'll enlist you for Peach.

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Let's not start any rumors here by taking things out of context!

I prefer dark chocolate, but there's plenty of that in Hershey too.

Well, this post is bad on SO many levels! Where to start?? I'll just skip the first part. Speaking as one of NoVa Sk8r and LoopLoop's competitors at Peach, rest assured that my goons will be watching mskater like a HAWK!

LOL:]

-As if I could harm a mouse But just to be on the safe side I would avoid any desolate areas; just make sure your partner stays close at all times

And if we hear any cries of "Why! ... Why!! ... Why!!!" we'll all know what happened.

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