I normally skate 6 hours a week: I skate a 1-hr early morning freestyle session 3 days a week before work, I skate an evening freestyle once a week, and I skate one weekend freestyle and one weekend public session. The total weekly cost for ice time is $42. I take two 30-minute lessons per week, at a cost of $40 each, so lessons cost $80 per week. So that's a total of $122 per week on skating.

I skate once a week, for a one on one coaching session, and practise on my own. Unfortunately the rink and the schedules only allow me to do this once a week. In the past, in another city, I used to skate 3 or 4 times a week.

I skate 5 days a week, 2-3 one hour sessions a day, with a lesson every day but on Fridays I have two lessons because I have two coaches.

Hey guys I'm from Perth Australia my iceskating times would be from

Sunday 6am-12:30pm
Monday 6am-9am
Wed 4pm - 6pm
Thur 12:30pm - 3pm
Fri 10am - 3 pm
Sat 8:15 - 10:15 and 1:30pm - 3:30pm

:-)

So about 23 hours a week for a full time student

Wow, wow, wow - I wish I could skate as often as most of the rest of you do. I used to live closer to rinks and skated about 11 hours a week with one 1/2 hour lesson a week (I'd add on extra when I had the time and the money and my coach was able to do it).

Then, I moved and dropped down to about 5-6 hours a week still with my 1/2 hour lesson.

Now, hardly ever. It takes me an hour to get to all the rinks. But, that doesn't stop me sometimes. I'm probably not going to be able to skate hardly ever this summer, though I want to very badly, but my career goals are going to preven that. Maybe after the last week of July I can get going again! But, until then, other things take priority.

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When my rink is open, my schedule looks like this:

Sunday: 2 hours club time, plus 2 hours at adult-only skate
Monday: 1 hour synchro
Thursday: 2 hours public (which is pretty empty except for the regulars)
Friday: 1 hour (lesson night)

Now it is closed until September, so now my schedule looks like this:

Sunday - Saturday: 0 hours


I have to drive up to the Pond or further if I want to do anything (unless I want to roller skate ) which is at least 1 hour away.

I might skate at The Pond on one or two Sunday public sessions a month (and drag the family along-hence the public session) and add an occasional mid-week drop-in session for myself. I didn't do any ice time over the summer last year and it took all of September just to get my crossovers back to a reasonable level of recognition.

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