OK, with AN officially starting tomorrow, here's a place for everyone to post their cheers and congrats....and for those competing to fill us in on the latest gossip...er...news.

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Terri C is a Bronze lady!
Gold Moves, here I come!

From the LOC side, everything is going really well. Everyone has been so great!

I'm kind of sad that I'm not competing, but also glad that I decided not to (with as busy as I've been, I would've skated AWFULLY). I will, however, be in the stands as much as I ca cheering everyone on and giving out throwies!

YAY, adult skating!!!

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I've got mad salchow disease!

The rinks are COLD!!! Yipes! I was able to warm up on practice ice yesterday but I can see how it wouldn't be fun to sit in the stands for any length of time. I am looking forward to cheering my friends on today. I wish I was competing today too so I can get it over with! I'll see if I can post some results from my iPod Touch today, I believe there is WiFi at the rink.

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"Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?"

That's why I looked like Nanuk of the North at Adult Easterns. I had blankets, a seat cushion, and five layers of clothing, including ski pants! Sitting is a cold, cold thing to do, but I enjoyed every minute of that competition.

I guess I could have gone up to the exercise machine room and staked out a treadmill, but I probably would have died after a few hours of walking...

Back on topic, Lexi Rohner's blogging AN for IceNetwork:
http://www.icenetworkincrowd.com/200.../59/72859.html

IceNetwork says the video will be "on demand." I don't know how delayed that will be, but it definitely doesn't mean "live."

an on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/lexisk8

Jazz got a nice shoutout. Suck it up, Joanna, and skate!

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Does anybody know where results will be posted?

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

From the USFSA Event Page:


The schedule is here:
http://web.icenetwork.com/documents/...t_Schedule.pdf

No results have been posted yet, but the competition only started about two hours ago.
The icenetwork event page is here: http://web.icenetwork.com/events/detail.jsp?id=58288

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Sk8Strong has posted a topic at www.sk8strong.blogspot.com specifically for off-ice training for adults, and wishes all adult competitors good luck this week! Wish I was there!

So icenetwork's event page says it will show "near real time results."
Am I just being an impatient NY'er or shouldn't there be SOME results out by 4pm?

I just sent their customer service an email asking when the results and video would be online.

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Lexi updated her blog with a few results:

http://www.icenetworkincrowd.com/200.../59/72859.html

Apparently, there's a facebook "Figure Skating Tossies" that lets you send a virtual tossie to your fav skater this week.

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Wishing my friend patatty good luck tonite. She had a stomach flu on Saturday and is still feeling pretty crappy.

And good luck too to my friend sexyskates!! She's probably skating today too.

Good Luck Guys!!! Miss you here!!

Bronze 1:

1. Breaha Montague-Bauer
2. Kimberly McNeil
3. Noreen Raza
4. Kimberly Walker
5. Stephanie DeCarlo
6. Audra Bandy
7. Rosalia Palumbo
8. Jessica Swindell
9. Alyson Lobert
10. Kristin Erne
11. Sarah Catherine Norris
12. Miyong Kim
13. Anne Sinko

Silver 1:

1. Danielle Konfall
1. Rochelle Revor
3. Kimberly Ellsworth
4. Brandy Lokken
5. Rachel Kuhn
6. Caroline Chao
7. Jennifer Paoni
8. Rachel Silverman
9. Jocelyn Delmar
10. Inna Tobin
11. Katie Van Ark

Bronze 2:

1. Kerri Tanner
2. Audrey Clapper
3. Jill Emerick
4. Kathleen Rusnak
5. Tracy Bryan
6. Stacie Berry-Kitchen
7. Norie Kasimura
8. Ann Tinkham
9. Robin Johnson
10. Dianne Miller

Silver 2:

1. Jennifer Dellinger
2. Maria Henwod
3. Maureen Carrigan
4. Dawn Miller
5. Erica Hartl
6. Elizabeth Richter
7. Jennifer Simon
8. Cynthia Rosenbaum
9. Amanda Holder
10. Sharidan Williams-Sotelo
11. Delsie McCoy
12. Lori Fussell
13. Cindy Flaherty
14. Sara Panzer
15. Kata Cengel
16. Erin Westphal

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I've got mad salchow disease!

Major congrats to the LOC for a great job! It's been wonderful to see everyone.

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Has anyone been able to link to the videos yet?!?!

Totally agree!!!

F~c: I forgot to tell you that I also HIGHLY appreciate the little butler kits in the locker rooms... The superglue came in VERY handy for me this afternoon for my skating dress since one of my stones came off my dress.

I don't have the placements on me other than the third place gal (Joan Bys, who I'm very proud of!!! ) and Terri C's (in the "last with dignity club" b/c she skated a clean program. Also proud of her too! )

And then there's me... Well, I expected to NOT make qualifying, but did NOT expect THIS -- there were 9 ladies in my QR group and top 6 goes to the finals. Guess what my placement was??? YUP!!! The dreaded 7th PLACE!!! Just SHY of making it to finals!!!

Will post more tomorrow since I just got done with taking out the hairdo that my coach pain-stakenly put on me... Well, more pain on MY part!!! (Me: "OW!!! My HAIR!!!")

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Results and starting orders are now posted here: http://www.usfigureskating.org/leade...8/results.html

They appear to be using the same "live results" mechanism they did for Nats. Although this is not linked on the event page at Ice Network, only the home page.

And they appear to only be posting Gold and Masters results. If IN isn't going to post results from the other levels and events, can the LOC post on their site? Please, pretty please?

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Terri C is a Bronze lady!
Gold Moves, here I come!

ITA DebbieS. Results for champ & gold are nice to see, but the vast majority of adult skaters are silver and below -- those are the results I'm most interested in. Come on icenetwork - give the majority what they want !! results from ALL events.

Shows you what they think is important, doesn't it? All USFS really cares about is returning skaters who can skate at the two highest levels or who are rapidly moving up. You can tell by the way they primarily spotlight championship and gold skaters on the "adult" page of Skating Magazine.

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You miss 100% of the shots you never take.--Wayne Gretzky

I was spotlighted just after getting out of basic skills. (Early enough that I didn't have a skating picture of me!!) They were looking for skaters with past injuries.

Lexi will put ANY adult skaters on that page- but it's easiest to reach the high level ones, because they are in the system and "known".

Do you want to be spotlighted? Or know of an awesome, but low level, adult who deserves it? EMAIL LEXI with a brief write up, or even the information she would need to make a more eloquent brief write up. Suggest a theme to her. How about "stuck on 3-turns, but still skating" and then help her find the adults. It doesn't have to be about championship skaters, but we have to help Lexi out!

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What I need is a montage...
Visit my skating journal or my Youtube videos (updated with 2 new videos Sept 26, 2009)

Hi all, got here this am & am having fun all bundled up here watching solo dance. There are some really great dancers here! I skated my initial round this morning & am thrilled to be in 6th!!!!! Final round tonite w/ Viennese waltz so I'll be glad when it's over!

The facility is really nice and you can see both rinks from the warm inner area.

I have to say I'm enjoying this AN more than my first one-- people have been very friendly.

I am sure that the only reason why they CAN show Gold and above results is because those events are IJS and the results are on computer. Silver and below events are just done on ordinals and probably hand written and/or have to be typed in and will take a few weeks to be posted.

For those of you complaining about the adult corner in skating magazine....I wrote to them a couple of years ago because the only thing they were writing up at the time were adults who had been skating for 10 years and who hoped to someday pass their pre-bronze moves. So you can blame me for that one....LOL I guess the pendulum has swung! Squeaky wheels get the grease!

Do I sound bitter? After a full year of injuries and having to withdraw from 2009 NATS I am finally becoming ok with the high probability of never competing again...

I have to be glad for those who can continue w/out getting hurt...this is just not in the cards for me

Enjoy

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Why are you skating so slowly? Get out of my way!

If you skate faster, it makes everything look better!

Due to a sciatic nerve in my back which shot excruciating pain all down my left leg. During the time I was supposed to skate my Interp., I trying to soak away the pain in my hotel's hot tub. When I was slated to skate Gold Ladies II, I'd made it home (back to Chicago) and was eating lunch.

I'm going to see a doctor on Monday.

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So sorry Black Sheep. I feel your pain - literally. I am currently dealing with the same crap. Pardon the language but that's the nicest word I can use to describe that kind of pain. Except mine is down my right leg, makes driving a lovely experience. It's getting better ..slowly. My docs think I've herniated a couple of discs.

Feel better....

Try some ice too, light stretching and possibly muscle relaxant?

(((BLack Sheep))) So sorry - hope you recover soon.

Even if the results are hand-written, it only takes a few minutes to scan them into a pdf. Getting them online could be an issue. I had planned to post the Easterns results, but the Club sent them electronically within a few hours and the USFSA put them online, so there was no need for me to crank up the laptop. (Although it did keep me warm, lol.)

When the Adult Committee had their Adult Skater Survey a few years back, I corresponded with Lexi via email. She asked me at that time if I wanted to be profiled but I declined. I think it's a matter of awareness and timing. I'm sure she'll make some new contacts at AN that we'll see in issues to come.

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I have no issue w/the profiles in the magazine. The spotlights seem to even out when you look back over time, and ANY publicity of adult skating is helpful. I do object to the way the results of the largest group of adult skaters, silver & below, are "ignored" by IN/USFS while the higher-level events are reported LIVE!! Thank you to the bloggers & posters to this forum for their coverage of all levels.

Thanks, Isk8NYC.

I once asked Lexi how I could be profiled in SKATING, and I filled out her survey in full. After waiting for a year or so after submitting it, I felt slighted and frustrated, and I asked Lexi why my profile hadn't made the magazine yet. I got the song-and-dance about how there are many, many other adults who want to be in SKATING magazine. Not long after that, Lexi became the head of the entire Adult Skating Committee. OOPS! Maybe this sciatic nerve that forced me out of my events this year is KARMA booting me in the rear!

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