"But it's my week to be active," she says.
"Having your neural connections work this early in the morning" is extremely difficult, says Daniels.
And Meyer laughingly admits, "I've never seen 7:30."
Indeed, Hanna says a skater must be really committed to take a course--across the river--at 8 a.m. "The hours are a little daunting. [That] really trips up a lot of people," he says.
Brown says that for her, ice skating is a way to relax. "It's a pretty good way to start the day once I get down [to Bright]."
The solitude of the rink is one of the things she appreciates most, she says. "It's great to be skating there alone. It's almost like a spiritual experience because it's so dark and quiet. You can hear every step you take in the ice."
"It's definitely an escape," she says. "It doesn't feel like you're at Harvard."