Waking up at 5am every Saturday isn't how every student at CPS typically starts their weekend. However this is normal for me and Carley Hinson. As you may know traveling off Nantucket for a hobby, or sport is very common. Going off the island every week as became a regular routine for Carley and I. When traveling off the island where we go to train mostly varies from Hyannis all the way to Boston. Having to travel every weekend does come with a cost, Dr. Amy Hinson states “Its moderately expensive for boats, a car, and hotel every week, but is worth the coaching.” When Carley and I travel on the weekends we train around 3 hours with off ice training after. When there is a week of vacation we take advantage of it to get as much practice as possible. …show more content…
The lack of improvement with the coaching on ACK was also limited. Usually one of my parents, Amy, or Greg Hinson (Amy’s husband) will take us to train off Nantucket With traveling this often it does come with some great advantages, but with the good comes bad. The great things about going off island that I enjoy are that I get to see new places and get to know more about Boston as a city, and Cape Cod itself. “Quality coaching, and doing fun things such getting our nails done” is Dr. Hinson's favorite part about going off so often. Carley enjoys, “ Getting to know skating better as a sport, and having more knowledge about it.” My least favorite part about traveling off on the weekends, is that we have to wake up at 5am for practice! Both Dr.Hinson and Carley do not enjoy the traveling part, but state that it is worth the coaching, and improvement does occur. As we try to not miss a lot of school it still does occur, due to competitions and skating tests. Carley and I both agree that missing school due to skating, is stressful because we usually have to make up lost time in tests, or quizzes. The outcome of being able to venture out to other places and coaches has made me and Carley improve mentally, and physically about the sport of Figure