Oooo... now I'm thinking "maybe"....
Yes, my nemisis really did say that. We were competing against one another and she wanted her cd back. She asked me to get it for her. I said I wanted to see the results and would be over there afterwards to get my own cd. She said, "You came in last. You always come in last because you're a lousy skater. Now, can you go get my cd?" Because she was my ride home, I got her cd. And she was right; I came in last. I should also mention that I had buried my mother just six weeks earlier.
She always made finals at AN and last year, for the first time ever, someone gave her last place. I watched her skate on Icenetwork and I didn't see where it was so bad. However, the other ladies in the group were pretty darn good.
As for my "on-the-fence" coach, I think she recognized my lack of motivation over my MIF test (two weak three turns and one weak mohawk is preventing me from testing this thing) and thought this would pick me up. However, she did say that I'd have a whole lot of work ahead of me and would have to skate daily. Daily skating just isn't going to happen (not with this stupid arctic blast keeping my car parked down a ramp) and she mentioned how I'm never trained enough for any competition.
Why I keep her is simple: not a lot of coaches in NY will take on adults; she does. Our schedules mesh, more or less, until the summer when everything gets tossed out the window...
However, I am still going to go watch.