Early Morning Practices & Rainbows
Today was our earliest day yet. First time we had to scrape Karen's car, because the sun hadn't melted the frost yet. It was also colder than it's been the last few days, back into negative double-digits. Tomorrow is supposed to go up into the 30s. Very weird to have a forty-degree jump in temps like that. I can only imagine the fog we may face.
The early hour also meant we had to deal with rush hour traffic. We were going very slowly at one part and looked up at the sky. A rainbow was arched overhead! We could see the bottom of both sides, but the top section was obscured because the blinding sun was right in our way (hence the rainbow, I guess). We took it as a sign that it is going to be a spectacular day.
The fact that Karen nearly amputated two fingers on my right hand? I don't know if that means the whole rainbow goodness hadn't quite kicked in yet. Too bad it's a late night tonight. No Chocolate Chip Guilt Cookies. I mean, it's not like I need my fingers to take photos or anything. I don't type during the day at all.
(OK, just kidding. The fingers aren't that bad. Just a little bruise. They probably won't fall off from gangrene or anything like that.)
Senior men's group B practice is going on right now. I haven't been completely watching, since I'm typing this. Lots of trouble with Jeremy Abbott's music. Freaky fall by Eliot Halverson going into a camel spin. Stephen Carriere is going sleeveless. Guess he's trying to bring sexy back to the men's practice.
Speaking of "SexyBack," I think I had Daphne going for a minute when I said Caroline Zhang is planning to skate to that at the exhibition gala.
Group C now taking the ice. Rohene is in this group so I see some local photographers and reporters buzzing around. Evan is also in this group. Guess what color he's wearing?
It seems so weird to have a new kiss and cry set up. I'm so used to looking over and seeing the ABC or ESPN backdrops. This new one is cool. Very Lalique/Bompard-y-ish. Without the balloons.
Evan just started skating his short program. Opened with a big quad toe-triple toe into a triple Axel. Follows that up with a perfect triple Lutz. Very impressive. Straightline footwork has excellent speed. Some spin I missed because I was typing. Now he's into his circular footwork, I think. It didn't look anything like a circle (I'm sitting in row 23) but more like a capital D. Speed was way down compared to the straight-line. Few of the guys run their programs all the way through and include all the elements. It really was a spectacular showing, especially this early in the day.
Maybe it's not early for Evan. Still pretty awesome to me.
Rohene's up now, running through is long program to "Dragon." He opened with a big quad toe (quick hand) double toe combo. He skated through his next two jumps (intentionally) and went into a fast spin. Now is the circular footwork that is so different from everyone else's. He uses the ice on so many levels in this very Bourne & Kraatz hydroblade-style. Katie just asked me a question, so I missed a bunch of elements. Now it's time for straight-line footwork. It's not as spazzy as Evan's, but I'm not sure if it's a level 4, either.
Time to move over into my photo nook. More later!
The early hour also meant we had to deal with rush hour traffic. We were going very slowly at one part and looked up at the sky. A rainbow was arched overhead! We could see the bottom of both sides, but the top section was obscured because the blinding sun was right in our way (hence the rainbow, I guess). We took it as a sign that it is going to be a spectacular day.
The fact that Karen nearly amputated two fingers on my right hand? I don't know if that means the whole rainbow goodness hadn't quite kicked in yet. Too bad it's a late night tonight. No Chocolate Chip Guilt Cookies. I mean, it's not like I need my fingers to take photos or anything. I don't type during the day at all.
(OK, just kidding. The fingers aren't that bad. Just a little bruise. They probably won't fall off from gangrene or anything like that.)
Senior men's group B practice is going on right now. I haven't been completely watching, since I'm typing this. Lots of trouble with Jeremy Abbott's music. Freaky fall by Eliot Halverson going into a camel spin. Stephen Carriere is going sleeveless. Guess he's trying to bring sexy back to the men's practice.
Speaking of "SexyBack," I think I had Daphne going for a minute when I said Caroline Zhang is planning to skate to that at the exhibition gala.
Group C now taking the ice. Rohene is in this group so I see some local photographers and reporters buzzing around. Evan is also in this group. Guess what color he's wearing?
It seems so weird to have a new kiss and cry set up. I'm so used to looking over and seeing the ABC or ESPN backdrops. This new one is cool. Very Lalique/Bompard-y-ish. Without the balloons.
Evan just started skating his short program. Opened with a big quad toe-triple toe into a triple Axel. Follows that up with a perfect triple Lutz. Very impressive. Straightline footwork has excellent speed. Some spin I missed because I was typing. Now he's into his circular footwork, I think. It didn't look anything like a circle (I'm sitting in row 23) but more like a capital D. Speed was way down compared to the straight-line. Few of the guys run their programs all the way through and include all the elements. It really was a spectacular showing, especially this early in the day.
Maybe it's not early for Evan. Still pretty awesome to me.
Rohene's up now, running through is long program to "Dragon." He opened with a big quad toe (quick hand) double toe combo. He skated through his next two jumps (intentionally) and went into a fast spin. Now is the circular footwork that is so different from everyone else's. He uses the ice on so many levels in this very Bourne & Kraatz hydroblade-style. Katie just asked me a question, so I missed a bunch of elements. Now it's time for straight-line footwork. It's not as spazzy as Evan's, but I'm not sure if it's a level 4, either.
Time to move over into my photo nook. More later!
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