Sunday at the Y

Wonderful practice today at the Y. There were about 8 skaters (half were adults, yay!) and the rest were higher level teens. So it was busy on the ice but everyone was respectful of space and giving each other room to run programs. I stayed for an hour and 15 minutes and worked the whole time so I guess that means my stamina is gradually improving. 

Free Dance - After my standard warm up and Moves practice, I got right to work with running programs. I started with the Free Dance because there's no jumping and I hadn't warmed up my jumps yet. It was nice! I'm ready to skate this in Casper. 

Silver Free Skate - After my Free Dance, while others were running their programs, I warmed up my jumps for the Silver FS. Jumps felt good today besides the same technique issues I always have with my Flips and Lutzs. Soon it was my turn to run my program so I got my music spooled up and got into position. It went well. In fact, I feel like I'll be proud of this program if I skate it this well in Casper. I know one of my competitors already and she's an absolutely beautiful skater! I'm not aiming for Gold in Casper because she's gonna kill it but I think if I skate like this, I could at least not be embarrassed to share the video. I've been thinking a bit about my spins, though. I'm doing two camels and they count as two spins of a different character because one is a combo and the other isn't but, to me, they really seem too similar. I thought about changing the first camel to a sit spin. So I practiced sit spins for a bit and they felt fast and low so I think I'll bring it up to Christopher tomorrow and see what he thinks. 

Bronze Free Skate - This will be my Nationals program so I need to run it too. By the time I run my third program, I have no gas left in the tank and I'm just all over the place. Maybe I should practice it earlier in my session. It's just not as high as a priority since I won't be competing with it until April so I don't want to waste what good energy I have early in the session on running a program I'm not competing with anytime soon. Ugh, I'll figure it out. 

So yeah, I'm exhausted but I got a lot of work done.