I just wanted to take a poll to see how far everyone traveled to get to their ice rink. We have to travel 30 miles (45 min. without traffic and about 1.5 hr. with traffic) The rink is right off the interstate so there are always traffic jams in the early evenings. Right now we will only be going 2 times a week since my daughter is a beginner, but that will be very expensive on gas when if she stays in it and we have to travel 4-5 times a week! If someone drives further than me it will make me feel a lot better!
Thanks,
Julie

This will probably get more replies in this forum.

~flippet

Less than 1 mile right now, and when I move back to SF, it will be maybe 2-3 miles (about 10 minute drive due to regular traffic).

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I go to a few different rinks in a week. The closest is a 45 min. drive, the farthest is about and hour & 15 min. That's if there's no traffic.

Half hour drive to my home rink. 45-50 minutes to my weekend rink. Half hour to my alternate weekend rink. (I know. Why don't I just make my alternate weekend rink my permanent one? It's USUALLY TOO DARN CROWDED and not as big, that's why!!! )

Natalie? 10 minutes to YB!?!!? YOU LUCKY DOG!!!

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I'm pretty spoiled. My main rink is 3 miles from my house, and the rink I go to sometimes on weekends is 7 miles away.

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My home rink is 8 miles away-usually presents no problem unless the big honkin' combines hog the road (that is only briefly in the fall & spring).

My summer rink is 2 hours away, through beach traffic and a very boring drive.....with tolls.....

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To get to my main rink, it takes me about 20 minutes. However, to get to work from there, it takes me about 45 minutes if the traffic isn't too horrible.

The rink by my house is maybe a 15 minute walk. But I don't go there often, it's only open on weekends and is way too crowded, and full of hockey kids. The rink by my school which I usually go ot is about 20 minute drive. In the summer, I go to 2 rinks, one is about 45 minutes, the other is 1 and a half hour train and bus ride (parking at htis rink is horrible, they make you pay and it's way more than I'm willing to dish out, plus tolls, it's not worth it)

There are about 5 major rinks within a 15 mile radius in my area, and then another one about 45 minutes away either north or south. So 6 rinks within a 45 minute drive - but *MY* rink is only about a 15 minute drive.

One rink I go to is about 30 miles away, which can take anywhere from 35 minutes (no traffic) to 1 hour or more (afternoon rush hour). 2 other rinks where I also go are closer - 1 is about 15 minutes and the other is about 20-25, depending on how many red lights I hit.

I'm in a similar situation as skaternum. My home rink is only 12 miles from home and I can get there in twenty or thirty minutes. However, I work about 35 miles away from home. Driving from work to the rink takes me about 45 minutes as well.

Frank

December - first week of March: only 15 minutes

The rest of the time, I give myself an hour. I usually make it in 45 minutes, but on occasion have taken more than an hour.

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When I get back into skating...

My primary rinks are a 10-minute walk from work and a 20-minute walk from my home.

There's also another facility about 20 minutes down the interstate I will probably use.

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OK: Here's mine.

Home rink is 10 minutes from home three mornings a week before work, which is also within 10 minutes from my home (the joys of a small town)

Second rink - two evenings a week is about an hour and ten minutes from here in good traffic and between 1:20 and 1:45 if traffic is ugly. (about 20% of the time)

Saturday rink - with my Granddaughter in her small town two and a half hours away from my small town.

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Also a small town.

Rink 1 - 4 blocks from home
Rink 2 - 2 blocks from work

I skate at rink 2, it's closer!

This is in the winter season, summer is a different story, I drove 1.5 hours each way for 1 hour of ice all summer.

I don't post often, but...

We lost our ice "temporarily" I hope.

In town the rink is 21 miles from my house. It takes 30 minutes to an hour depending on the time of day. Early am I can get there in half an hour and then it's only 15 minutes to work.

Right now I'm commuting 117 miles each way once a week to skate. That takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes each way. Often I have a hard time getting myself out of the car once I arrive home.

Pedonskates - that sucks!

I am 9 miles (about 17 minutes) from my primary rink which is 3-4 miles from work (7 minutes at rush hour) and about 8 miles from there to home. My "other" rink is a good hour away but the only place to get night time ice once a week

The rink I skate at is about 65-70 miles away- about 1 hour and 15 mintutes most of the time since it is straight interstate driving. It's the closest and just reopened not to long ago, thankfully! I try to skate twice a week for now, but last week I came down with strep throat, so I didn't get to skate at all... oh well... I am looking forward to being back on the ice!

My main rink is 10 miles away -- takes about 20 minutes to get there in the mornings.

The rink where I take my dance lesson that has actual dance session is a five-minue drive from my house.

One rink is about a 40 minute drive and another is 15 minutes from my house in the opposite direction.

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My best time is 23 minutes, but that would be breaking a few speed limits. Overall, about 25.

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This should make you feel better jebnolte:

The closest rink to my house is 40 minutes and 30 miles away. The next closest is 23 miles and 45 minutes away. But they are both EAST of my house. The rink where I skate one day a week with my moves coach is 50 minutes WEST of my house, and a 20-minute drive from work (I go after work) but since someone has broken into my car there twice in the last 15-months, I now take public transit. (And I'm even more irked because the local cops told me "well maybe you shouldn't go to the rink any more".. as they took the crime report in the rink parking lot! -- I would put the "evil/devil" smiley here, but I can't get it to drag over.) So now it takes me an hour to get there (That includes taking a 1.5 mile walk each way.. at least I'm nicely warmed up by the time I get to the rink.. but on days I take a bad fall, that walk just PROVES how hard the fall was) and an hour to get back to work where I leave my car, and then 45-minutes to drive home... if there is no traffic. I used to go to that rink 3 days a week.. but the entire break-ins/public-transit-time-consuming hassles have soured me on that (for now).

The rink where my primary coach teaches (and I take 2 lessons a week from her) is 75 miles away; it takes me about an hour and 15-minutes to get there from work, if there's no traffic... but since I drive there right after work in the morning commute (I work a graveyard shift 11pm-7am) there is ALWAYS traffic and it usually takes at least 90-minutes. Of course, going home, it takes me more than two-hours.. without traffic.

Now do you feel better? (I still think SKATING itself is worth it... but my husband thinks I'm crazy.. especially with the cost of gasoline going up-up-up. He MAY be right.. but don't tell him I said that.)

Perspective from a different continent - I live in Sydney Australia, and when we train for synchro (at 5 am on a Sunday morning - where's that evil smiley when you need it!!), it's only 8-10 minutes away by car (there is no public transport to this rink at all from our area at any time. It's the car or nothing.)

This is my home rink and the one I go to 99% of the time. During more normal times: at peak hour (when I travel to the rink on a Monday and Wednesday morning), it can take from 30 min to 1.5 hours. Depends on the traffic. Then I have to find a park, but before 10 am on a weekday morning it's not usually too bad.

Out of peak hour, I normally allow about 20 min, plus 10 min to find a park. (Especially on a Thurs night, when it's late night shopping here, and the shopping centre where the rink is located is crowded.)

14 miles each way, about 15-20 minutes drive. No public transport available if I wanted to use it.

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Ten minutes in the car on a Sunday morning - can take over an hour on the bus on a Thursday night! It's about 3-4 miles (an hour's walk, although I never do walk more than half-way).

The rink we go to once a month is about an hour's drive across London, so probably 15 miles. And the rink we sometimes train at if the Husband is working on something with Other Woman takes about 2 hours to get to by public transport, and a good hour's drive. Probably 30-40 miles away.

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