10 signs that you're an adult figure skater

If you're one of those skaters who juggles real, adult, life with a hobby more often geared toward children, you'll no doubt recognise a few of these...

1) When friends invite you out and the main factor in whether to have a few drinks and risk a hangover is if you need want to skate the next day.



2) Your definition of success is: Finding that perfect outfit that can work both in the office and on the ice for those skating days when there's no time to change....





3) ...And when you go into a clothes shop, you judge any potential outfit on whether you could skate in it.


4) You can't listen to a song without analysing its potential as skating music.



5) If you're driving somewhere that's in the rough direction of where you skate, you often end up at the rink by mistake.

6) When someone talks about a mohawk, you realise you no longer immediately associate the word with a dodgy hairdo.

7) You worry whether wearing heels will shorten your hamstrings and ruin your hard-earned flexibility.

8) Speaking of your hard-earned flexibility: You work on it everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE. At home while cooking, while watching TV, at the photocopier during work, in the queue at Asda....there's no such thing as just standing anymore.


9) There's, at some point, (maybe more than once) been THAT ONE element that you felt was the work of the devil himself. You spent hours going around in circles (or standing on a circle) trying desperately to pluck up the courage to do it.

10) No matter how old you are, your coach is some kind of god to you, who has the ability to make you feel like a badly behaved schoolgirl/boy with one withering look. Then you try harder, because disappointing him/her feels worse than disappointing your parents ever did.