Spin Progress

My spins lesson with Lynne on the 7:30 a.m. FS at Chandler.   I warmed up by running Bronze Moves (I can do the test in 8 minutes now), then ran some elements from my free skate that I have issues with.

Today's lesson:

• standing start -- these were really good today!  About the best they've ever been.  Several 3 rev spins.  I was doing a much better job of relaxing and not rushing things.  Some initial issues with getting a good hook on the spin but I managed to improve that.  I was really, really pleased with this.
• program entrance -- once again we worked on the entrance I'll use for the free skate.  Not nearly as good as the standing start... I'm really rushing things.  We did get some improvement toward the end of our time but the best one was only about 1.5 revs.  Bleah.

After our lesson I had 10 minutes so I worked some more on program elements, then ran the free skate with music.  I finished on time... but only because I left some things out.  Oh well.  The first part was pretty good but I feel like I'm a bit slow and I need to pick up the pace in the second half of the program.  Really, it goes by so fast!