I Won My First Medal

There Is No Age, Height, Or Weight Requirement To Skate. It Is Good Exercise No Matter What Your Age Is. If You Want To Be Competitive, Most Start Young. But, I Practice With Many Adult Competitors.

But After A Few Minutes Of Convincing Myself That I Really Wanted To Go - Telling Myself That I Love Skating And That My Coach Is There Waiting For Me - I Would Get Up And Go. And My Mother Would Always Get Up And Eat Breakfast With Me!

It Wasn't Always Easy Getting Up At 5 O'clock In The Morning To Go To The Rink. Sometimes I Wanted To Just Go Back To Sleep.

I Worked Also, Doing Things Such As Our Paper Route And, Later On, Waitressing.

But It Seems That The Judging Maybe They Shouldn't At Least See The Practices All Week Long. That Can Taint The Way They Go Into The Judging And The Outlook Of What's Going To Happen, Instead Of Just Watching Those Four Minutes And Judging On Those Minutes Alone.