Summer Skating

To those of you who have normal freestyle sessions, congradulations. You post on Instagram and Facebook (and I suppose TikTok but I don't view TikTok) and I salivate while watching sessions with normal amounts of skaters on the ice. Lately, my sessions look like this:

And that's on a good day. Ice rinks still aren't open for public sessions, so some of those people have found a way around that. Purchase your own skates and skate at the Coffee Club. Being able to skate is not a prerequisite, apparently, judging from the Coffee Club session I skated. Money, your own skates and a pulse were the prerequisites. Oy vey, what a mess! It's back to mornings and only mornings. Too bad, I rather liked sleeping in two days a week. However, it is better to wake up early, actually skate and go to work, than to throw money out the window, get frustrated and spend as much time traveling 13 miles as I did skating on the ice. Once again, thank you MTA. It's such a joy to wait 28 minutes for a train down on the platform in July. On a positive note, my three turns are improving. I wasn't able to skate my moves without interruption, but the pieces are slowly coming together. Also, I found a skating club that does virtual tests that I will probably try. Not now, because I'm no where near ready, but if they keep doing virtual, I'm thinking October/November. Speaking briefly about TikTok because I just looked at it. When you put "Adult Figure Skating" into the search, the results consist of figure skating, but not adults. And everything and everyone is Russian. That's odd. I must be doing something wrong, but I'm not that interested in TikTok, so it's okay. That, of course leads me to my issue with kids on an adult skating site. Come on people. Post little Suzie and little Fred doing quad jumps somewhere else. I have off-ice to do tonight at 9:00 before bed. Apologies to my downstairs neighbors.