Schedule adjustment (some rinks closed)

As I expected we've got new restrictions meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus. We are not in total quarantine mode but in the very next level of restrictions.The rinks fall in the category of gyms, and they are allowed to stay open and function at 25% capacity, though.. no group classes are allowed. Some rinks decided to stay open, but not my rink.... The rink where I was registered for the Christmas Nutcracker exhibition has closed too. 

The rink where I take private lessons will stay open, allowing 10 people on ice. The think is that that rink is farther away, so I really cannot make it there 4 times a week. Ideally I would like skate at least 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but that may also take too much time. Also my lesson is set on Tuesdays... I canceled the lessons for now, until I figure out my schedule, maybe somebody else wants that spot. And wait, next week is Thanksgiving, Thursday the rink is closed, and Wednesday is sold out. I am grateful I can still skate, but I'm so frustrated of how much time and effort it requires to get to skate. I've just bragged in the last post that I felt I've got a good pace and rhythm in my skating, now that rhythm will be gone as I cannot skate at uniformly distanced days. What is also taking away from my good rhythm is that my rink session are  an hour and a half and the rink that is open has one hour session. I have to organize differently.

The rink that my club uses for test sessions is also not closing, so the December 15 test session is still on. I would soo love to test the Pre-Juvenile MITF . Am I ready? I thinks so... but I haven't really worked on them with my coach in... forever.  December 15, so 3 weeks from now. Theoretically, I think I would have enough time to pull myself together. The 3-turns feel better now, after I resharpened the blades. The rest was OK already.

 If I wouldn't test in December I think  I will be tempted to take it easy, maybe skate just twice a week. Then, it would be the Christmas break, when the ice schedule is crazy different and in the past that always made me skate stiffer in January. What I'm getting at is that in January I may be even less prepared to test then now, in December. There is one more thing... if I wouldn't test I don't know on what I would use my private lessons on, I don't want dance for now as I cannot test partnered and I've got it in my head that the old boots are not holding my dance push into the ankle and the jumps'  landings... I'm not motivated to work on the moves for more than a month,  Also... I'm buying new boots and I would like to test on my old boots... or I'll have to wait few months until I'll break in the new ones.

I plan to skate today, Friday and Monday and work mostly on moves. If I feel confident I can have a lesson on Tuesday and decide together with my coach... to test or not to test... And that will determine the skating schedule.