Simple

Today has been a long day.  I feel like this week before Nationals is crawling. I wrote a blog on Monday, and Tuesday was slightly better. Blame it on illness or nerves, but the last two days haven’t been too hot on the skating front…or any front for that matter.  However, I guess every roller coaster has to go down to come back up again…or that would be one boring ride.  Needless to say today got so much better.  First I would just like to say that Kyle is the most wonderful partner I could ever ask for. It’s ironic, because we’ve been great friends since I came to Delaware and we trained together for a year. We would always share frustrations of looking for partners.  We traveled to Spokane together to watch Nationals last year and sat in the stands.  At the point where we were both about to give up the search, our coach was like “Why don’t you two just like stroke together or something?”  We did and apparently something clicked.  No one ever thought it would work since we are close in height, but hey...it happens ;)  I’d say we’ve had about three “tiffs” since we’ve started skating together, and probably started laughing five minutes later.  Skating has never been so fun, but at the same time so productive.  He's one of my best friends.  It's weird to think we're going to nationals again together this year, but competing.  Often at the most random times we come to this realization and we'll be like..."We're skating together!"  Couldn’t ask for anything better, which goes for everyone at the rink.  So my reason for blogging was basically, because I had an amazing epiphany today.  I was at the hair salon and my hairdresser and I were talking about skating.  Right away, he was like “So, are you good?”.  First off, I think that is a terrible question.  What does he expect me to say…no?  Then I thought, well what do I really think?  Then I thought, why did I just ask myself that question?  When you’re on the ice and you’re program is going amazing and people start cheering, you know you look good and then you push it out more, and pour on the drama.  When you’re on the ice and you skate decent, but the crickets are chirping….maybe it wasn’t so great?  Does just saying that you are good make you good, or does someone have to assure you?  Sometimes we get so caught up in the details we forget to ask ourselves some of the simplest of questions. My response to myself for this worldly question of the day….You are as good as you think you are.

4 more days of training and then off to Nationals!