A blog about skating...from the view of an adult skater. Sometimes I'll write about my own skating journey or about my adventures on my Synchronized Skating team. Other times, I'll write about my own observations as the Ice Monitor at the Ice Rink where I skate. And still other times, I'll write about skating in general, Team USA, the Olympics, or other skating. For now, the names of the coaches and students at the Rink are pseudonymns, but if you know my rink, you'll quickly recognize who is who.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Working at the ice rink ice rink ice rink....

So, it's week one of the new life schedule...and um...yeah my body does not like being awake at 4:30. However, there was some way positve stuff this morning. First, my commute took less than 45 minutes-- woo hoo. Second, i got to see the sun rise. Third...i got to skate on a completely empty rink by myself. It was so wonderful to just be able to close my eyes and skate...just skate. When i'm alone on the ice, i'm not old and fat and out of shape and "that damn lefty"...when i'm by myself? I'm just me...skating. It feels so good. I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning when i can be alone again. Apparently, the kids don't really start arriving until 7 or 8...so the first hour or so of the session is nearly empty. This makes me very happy. So, basically, yeah I'm going to get paid to skate. I'm not sad about this.




I'm also amused by the number of kids who really believe they are going to be the next Michelle Kwan or Tara Lapinski or Evan Lysacheck. Seriously folks....out of the literal THOUSANDS (170,000 members of USFSA) of people who skate, 2 women and 2 men make it to that level every year. While many of these kids might have decent skating careers there might be 2-3 from our rink that even qualify on a national level at any point. I think the parents need a serious reality check and the kids need to either really focus on their skating or they need to acknowledge that they are a non-national level competitor. Some of these kids have zero work ethic and then wonder why their coaches get frustrated. Ah...oh well. It brings in money for the rink...the rink pays me...life is good.



I've got my fancy new employee id card for the park district now, so that means i can use all the facilities....which is awesome...so in my downtime between ice- monitor shifts, i'm going to try to use the gym facilities. In addition to skating, if i add some weights/resistance training, i think my weight loss will be accellerated and my skating will probably improve more quickcly which would be really nice. I just don't have the brute strength necessary to haul my ass off the ice for my jumps, so added strength would help.



I'm also going to be getting this fancy thing called a regular pay check. I've kind of forgotten what that is, but i'm kinda excited to be reminded.
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