Getting recognized...

[Meli]

I'm famous?

Or maybe infamous?

Or  maybe notorious?

Or a big dork?

We'll go with big dork.

Tonight at the rink, one of the new adult skaters (still in skate school) asked if I was a member of the club... because she saw my picture on the website.  She wanted to talk about some of the club stuff and testing.

Because it's rare that our little posse of pre-bronze/bronze ladies are all competing at the same time (injuries and grownup responsibilities have been an issue) we did goofy group shots at the end of it all... which ended up on the club page... the less goofy shot got submitted by someone to the US Adult Skating Committee Facebook page. If I wasn't outed as an adult skater before, I am now!

[AgnesNitt]

When I was off ice for 3 months or so, when I walked into the rink the rink manager who I had never spoken to before called out to me across the lobby "Where've you been?"

[Bill_S]

Very cool, Meli!

I've had some of my own clowning-around skating shots get into some high visibility places. I hope yours were better than mine!

[lutefisk]

Last year I found my old ISI gamma test card from 1976. I blogged about that here:  http://agingskater.blogspot.com/2016/03/black-bird-singing-in-dead-of-night.html 

Just for fun (since most of the peeps I skate with weren't even born then) I posted a pix of the card on our ISI Team's FB page.  The following day the skating director of our rink emailed me to say that the home office down in Plano, Texas wanted to post my photo on their FB page and were tickled pink that somebody "my age" was still skating.  So I send an email down to Texas and told them to feel free.  Now while this made me momentarily and locally "famous" nobody has yet to offer me a big contract or to put my face on a Wheaties box.  That last part is probably just as well--I wouldn't want to scare small children before breakfast.

[dlbritton]

Today I went to a lunch time yoga class at work taught by the medical department. At the end of the class the instructor asked if I had any problems with any of the poses (due to my ankle surgery). When I said no and explained to someone in the class I tore ligaments figure skating, several people responded in unison "I heard about that. That was you?" One person I knew by face but the other person was a total stranger. Guess my infamy is widespread.

At water aerobics at the YMCA, mostly attended by the medicare Silver Sneakers crowd, a common response to my accident is "Were you skating with your grand children" followed by looks on incredulity and occasionally "Well good for you" when I explain that I have been taking lessons for 3 years.

[skategeek]

Right around the time I did my ISI Alpha-level competition, someone outed me to my dean... he said that his big claim to fame pre-academia was that a picture of him skating in the Poconos at age 5 got turned into a postcard.

[fsk8r]

I skated in our Christmas show a few years back. It's a big deal locally. But I'd never really considered "who" was going to watch it.
I'm sat in a meeting at work in January and this guy asked whether it was really me in the show as he'd recognised me. His family have nothing to do with skating, but went to the show one year, enjoyed it and now it's part of their Christmas tradition.
As my coach directs the show, I'm sent to get personal feedback each year.

[sk8lady]

Last year I found my old ISI gamma test card from 1976. I blogged about that here:  http://agingskater.blogspot.com/2016/03/black-bird-singing-in-dead-of-night.html 

I still have my ISI Alpha and Gamma badges from 1976! They were on the sleeve of my high school letter jacket for years.

[sk8lady]

A couple of us older female skaters were asked to help the local skate shop (primarily hockey gear) by letting them film us practicing for a commercial. It got much wider play than I would have expected, and last year when I walked into the conference room before court one of the caseworkers screamed, "I saw you in a commercial last night!!"

[lutefisk]

I still have my ISI Alpha and Gamma badges from 1976! They were on the sleeve of my high school letter jacket for years.

Nice!  '76 was a good year!