One Of Those Days

Some days it just doesn't pay, it just doesn't.

I intended to skate the 6 p.m. FS at Shiny Rink. This is a short session (45 min) anyway, but due to horrible traffic it took me 50 min to get to the rink, so that I wound up with only 35 minutes to skate.

I felt horribly off for the first 10 minutes or so, after which I got some okay work in on half flip, 3s and FXOs. Toward the end of the session, though, I was skating down the length of the rink and made a poor course choice and had a near collision with a) a boy whose name I don't know (who was on lesson) and b) a skater named Ciara. I attempted to do a snowplow stop, slowed down some and fell over. Sheesh. Ciara graciously helped me up, but it was embarrassing. I really need to work on my hockey stop, as I should have been easily able to stop at that speed with a hockey stop; I was really going too fast to have stopped in time with a snowplow stop anyway. Sheesh.