If you can show me a bar that uses sports bottles, I will frequent it for life!!

Hang on to those sports bottles! They are great travel martini shakers - complete with strainer!

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Sports bottles, with the correct ingredients, are for the rink AFTER you've competed that day.

However, you'll probably have some difficulty getting a bar tender to fill up your bottle at the party. And, the party, as far as I know, is not a BYOB. A portion of the bar bill of the competitors will help pay for the party.

BTW, did you know that if you mix V8 Fusion Pomegranate and Blueberry with a little (or a lot of) Vodka, not only are you getting fruit and veggie servings, you're also carb-loading and getting anti-oxidants!!! Talk about a balanced diet.

My partner told me the other day that she is so happy that we don't skate until the afternoon/evening both days. She doesn't have to start as early that way. Lightweight!

Rob

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how many hours do you skate a week?

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So, do you think this would be a good breakfast after I skate on Saturday?

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Saturday? It would be brunch.

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Using V8 Fusion instead of plain juice is a stroke of genius!!

Well, in a week it'll all be over for me and I can relax! I'm glad in a way to just be doing one event.

Don't forget guys, you're allowed to take your skates on planes now so if you're nervous like me about checking them, they ARE allowed. No WAY in heck am I checking them going to Grand Rapids. I have a layover in Cinncy, plus the time my synchro team went to GR, someone's skates were lost and she never got them back.

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Can you really take your skates on the plane? I remember reading a bunch of threads on this forum that seemed to imply that it was rarely allowed. I have layovers both ways (Cinncinnati and Detroit), so I'm nervous about them losing my skates too.

It all depends on the airport and the TSA agent at the x-ray machine. Some airports seem to allow it, and some don't.

If they don't, you will have to exit the security area and then go back and check them. So, if you plan on carrying them on, have something you can pack them in, and have them sufficiently padded, in the case that you have to check them.

Just my $0.02

Rob

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Rob is right. Living in Military Town USA, I know that checking skates is not a option. I plan to ask United to put a priority tag on my skate bag.

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Rob is right, it does really depend on the TSA in your airport, but they are on the list of allowed items. I always have a printout of the allowed list with me, but very rarely do they even ask to look at the skates and I've never ever had them denied as carry on. I've gotten my skates through Boston, Dallas, Midway, Newark, Atlanta, Raleigh, JFK, Providence, Buffalo and probably more I'm not thinking of. It is good to be prepared just in case you get some TSA person on a power trip, but it's defintiely worth a try. I don't even point out they're in the carry on, 99% of the time it just goes right through the x-ray machine and I'm on my way. I'm just too paranoid to check them, especially with a layover.

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Na, that's a hip-flask! WITH single malt.... (at least, for the Mountain Cup it's single malt - everywhere else it's bog-standard whisky!).

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Before I even check in, I go to the TSA gate I will eventually go through and ask to speak to the supervisor. I then explain the deal with the skates and ask if I can take them on board. Sad puppy-dog eyes help! LOL

If they say yes, I get their name and ask if they will still be there in 15 minutes, because then I have to actually go check in and come back.

If they say no, I don't have to worry about checking my skates separately from the baggage I was already intending to check.

Lessee, my list of where I've got them through includes Rochester NY, JFK, Dulles, Reagan, Balt/MD, Chicago, SFO, LAX, OAK, Portland OR, and who knows where else. The two times that I have been forced to go back and check my skates were both in Rochester NY - but I've gotten them through ROC plenty of times. It's entirely up to the specific TSA agent you get - I talked to the manager of one once who said that yes, if it had been her decision she would have let them through but she couldn't go "against" her staff member. (I sorta thought that's what managers were for - to correct staff members' errors but whatever).

Try, but leave yourself time to go and check them.

In the past few years, I've gotten mine through:

Cleveland
Rochester
LAX
Nashville
Providence
Boston

Sometimes they look at me like I'm strange for even wasting their time and asking if they are ok.

I've told this before, but on the way to synchro mids in 08 they let me through with skates, scissors, a screwdriver and an abundance of metal knitting needles, only to confiscate my toothpaste because it was 3.8 oz. It was hilarious.

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I called Northwest to ask about my hoop and skates. The skates had to be in checked luggage and the hoop was too big, so I UPSed it. I'm going through LaGuardia. Fairly laid back for a big airport, but too big to run around trying to get a favor (although in 2002 they let that big boxed hoop go around the X ray, after I pantomined a demonstration of what I could do with it, and they say my skates on x ray).

...or for your friends after they have competed and are reaching for a swig of water.

I hope everyone has a great time and wonderful fun skating at AN! Wish I could be there!

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I signed up to volunteer this year and I was assigned to be practice ice monitor Tuesday night. Whee can't wait to see everyone!

I signed up too, but haven't heard anything back.

I guess I'll check in at Registration to see if they need help then.

Rob

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You mean this:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/ph...6&id=715596056


Rob

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2010 Adult Nationals - earning a gold - "Priceless"
2009 Adult Nationals - competing with a cold is not much fun.
2008 Adult Nationals - Too little sleep, too much vodka!

I'm taking the "trust but verify" track when it comes to you at competitions!

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You only really have to worry when Becca and I team up!

Rob

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2010 Adult Nationals - earning a gold - "Priceless"
2009 Adult Nationals - competing with a cold is not much fun.
2008 Adult Nationals - Too little sleep, too much vodka!

So you think...ha ha ha

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PRICELESS!!!

Yes, NoVa Sk8r! Sounds like there will be plenty of vodka nips coming to you... just HOW you'll get it is the question...

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Thank you for the support, you guys!!!