AG - who is your skeleton friend??? I know most of the sliders. A first name is all I need to know them!
Has she gotten you up to the track to take a run yet? Now, they are truly looney tunes! Nothing like barreling down an icy track head first with your chin about an inch from the ice!!!
Kimber and Brad. They got me out on Friends and Family day last winter, which was really fun... well and scary as you're pinging off the walls... but I can see why they like it so much. I think I like skating more - that seems to suit my style!
And just as an update - I'm still skating. I've done 2 club races now. I finished the 3000m last time (just short of 8 laps), which was quite a challenge - I'd only ever completed half that many laps in practice, but we did age group races of the 1000m, 500m and 700m and then an open group of everyone who wants to racing the 3000m at the end so I gave it a shot with the goal of finishing and actually did much better than I expected. So now I've been working up to actually finishing it without having to stand up and let my back un-cramp in the middle of it. Today I did 6 laps, then 5 laps, then 4 laps and felt pretty good. Considering a couple months ago doing 2 consecutive laps was like torture, that's pretty good!