by Elizabeth Ryan | Jul 23, 2020 | Adult Skaters, Parents, Skaters |
It’s been a long time and the waiting is nearly over – rinks will be starting to open up soon and that means all the hard work you’ve been doing off-ice will pay dividends when you step back on to that lovely smooth cold sheet of ice… or will it? Everyone’s been in...
by Rhiannon Parker-Nicholls | Aug 8, 2018 | Skaters |
(Rhiannon’s story was selected as runner-up in the 2017 competition to provide a short story for publication in the 2018 SkaterPlanner™) It’s been 213 days. That’s seven months, 5,112 hours. That’s a long time. As I pushed open the door, the familiar...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Apr 29, 2018 | Adult Skaters, Coaches, other sports, Parents, Skaters |
Are you a Positive Peter or a Negative Nellie? Are you a Pooh bear type of person, who sees wonder in every little thing or a Tigger, bouncing around spreading joy wherever you go? Or are you more of an Eeyore? Human beings tend to default towards an Eeyore-like...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Jan 16, 2018 | Adult Skaters, Coaches, other sports, Parents, Skaters |
How did Blue Monday go for you? Did you know there’s even a mathematical formula for it? Where W = Weather, D = Debt, d = monthly salary, T = time since Christmas, Q = time since failing New Year’s resolutions, M = low motivational levels and Na = the feeling of...
by Elizabeth Ryan | Dec 12, 2017 | Coaches, Parents, Skaters |
It’s always an amazing week at Ice Sheffield when the British Championships are on – and I look forward every year to chatting with mums, dads, coaches and skaters about their challenges and their achievements. I especially love to catch up with ‘my’ skaters – whose...
