No skating today

Got a text from my coach at 5:35 AM this morning (25 minutes before I was to wake up for my weekly lesson). She was up all night coughing and this morning came down with a a terrible sore throat. Needless to say, she wasn't going to come in because she didn't want me to get sick. Also because it would be no fun to stand on the ice for an hour in such a condition. I told her it was ok and I'll go see her next week. I COULD still have gone up as usual and did a practice without her, but I opted to sleep in :T BADDDDD I know. But I really do like having her around because we just started working on Bronze Moves last week, and I am still getting the hang of the alternating backward crossovers pattern.

I was gonna go to public skate tomorrow afternoon to make up for my lack of ice time. However when I checked my rink's website to confirm times, I saw that there was open freestyle tomorrow from noon - 1:30, so I'll attend that instead.

Skating club/USFS membership dues due :P

In order to compete in USFS (United States Figure Skating) events (which I'm not interested in) and take tests for the different levels (which I am interested in), one must be part of a skating club and/or be a member of the USFSA. I belong to such a skating club which incidentally isn't based in my home rink. However, my two coaches belong to this club and they know the people that conduct the test sessions they have, so I figured I would join this one. Anyway, our yearly membership fees of $70 which includes USFS membership are due soon...umm I think actually the deadline has already passed because the membership year runs from 7/1 of the year. I already got the form in the mail but I haven't mailed it in.

Since I am not planning to test again until September (I recently didn't pass my very first test...pre-bronze Moves in the Field test---that will make for another post sometime), it doesn't make a difference whether I send in the check now or next month. However I'll be losing out on a few issues of SKATING magazine (official magazine of the USFSA) but I can live without that. There's no penalty for sending your renewal late neither.