It always amazes me that that happens...if for kids who are in school, what about those parents who generally drive them? I don't envy those 6am sessions...

You're in the wrong section of this board. You'll have better luck with that question in NSD.

If you were staying with your inlaws, trust me they will find something for you to do. (Let's just say that DH and I have very different ideas on what we want to do while we're here in LI on top of us playing politics with DH's family..)
Dopey question but...can you move up your appt. time so you can go rightward? Or is it one of those doctors that are hard to schedule?

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Yep! Same here. I got sick of freestyle sessions being "too early" so I just switched time zones. Just go to bed at 8 or 9pm and get up at 4 or 5am. Not easy, but not impossible if your ice addiction is strong enough.

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Oh no, poor you! I do hope you feel better soon. Steam inhalations with a drop of peppermint oil, every hour on the hour should help - keep the mug of boiling water with the peppermint oil in it in your room between sessions, so you still get the benefit of the peppermint vapours.

And call your test chair at once to see if s/he can arrange for your test to be postponed.

And get well soon!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

9P bedtime has been my life for the last several years to accommodate my 4:15A alarm. Some nights, it's earlier. That includes weekends because why not a 5:30A session on a Sunday? I have been searching for a night time session for a while because my energy level isn't the same when I skate at night and for some reason they always seem to schedule my groups for nights when I compete.

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my last time on the ice for a few months and i was late my friend and i were going to the 7.30am freestyle. at 7.05 her phone rings. it was one of the younger skaters asking where we were. we hadn't even gotten out of bed yet! that phone call was our alarm. we managed to get on the ice by 7.45 tho, which was pretty good.

skated like total ****. timing was all off. i'm gonna blame it on the fact that i only got like an hour of sleep. everything was off tho. like, the 3-turn into the double sal wasn't even right!

leg and hip were really bothering me. i seem to have done something to the outside of my right shin. it started with a stabbing pain when i extended my leg, and turned into a swollen lump. i think i may have gotten stress fractures and just ignored them too long. but that made jumping hard too.

eventually, i said "screw this" and worked on spins.

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did a couple good, solid, outside edge scratch spins. also discovered i'm good at inside edge back scratch.

camel spins were nice. people always tell me how good my camel is, and they felt better than usual.

axels were really big.


no more skating for a few months

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Same here. The alarm goes at 3:45 a.m. everyday, out of the house by 5, at the rink by 6:15 and off to work around 8:30 to 9 a.m., back home at 4:30. (Just don't telephone after 9 p.m.!)

"Ice addiction"? What's that?

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Technically only 2 hours. I'm including "prep time" - aka start getting ready at 2, drive to rink, put on skates and on the ice 2:30-4:30, take skates off and put bag back together and drive home by 5.

Hard to schedule, unfortunately. Actually, I *can* skate 1-2:15 and then go right to the doctor's by 3:15, but stupid me made a car alignment appointment at 1pm. That one I am changing!!

Yeah, I think those early mornings would be easier if I were able to go to bed early and get up early on weekends, too, but I time shift to my husband's sleep schedule instead. He usually gets home from work around 8pm on weekdays and gets up a little later, so we don't have much time together on weedays.

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No skating today, spent the day with the family. One pretty gifts I love my new MaxiFlex from Christmas !

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Well for all you annoyed at the 6AM sessions, think of it this way. Most Dutch adult skaters would kill for those, because 90% of skating rinks in this country only have ice slots between 10 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon, and public ice in the weekends (where "snowplow" takes on its most literal meaning because of the sheer mass amount of skaters)

Attagirl!!!

Lump of Coal: Still sick with cold... no fun being sick while traveling. (If I wasn't sick, I would be out and about in Manhattan today (though NOT in Times Square, where I'd imagine is a mad house. )

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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!!!