And so a Derby girl was born

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

turning, pilons, whislte drills and more

FINALLY!! it was practice time.....derby time......woohooo!!

Got to the arena and put my gear on.....stopped short of putting my skates on in the dressing room...was feeling a little unsure of trying to wobble and whimper my way to the arena floor.....sooo i carried them into the arena and put them on in there.....no shame, i repeat....no shame.

i got all laced up and took off rolling...doing a pretty good job of it too if i do pat myself on the back...got myself all warmed up, talked and joked with a few of my derby girls and had a nice stretch.....and more skating....then the whistle blew!!!!!!!!!

and so began the whistle drills.......friends of mine had dropped in to check things out and were in the bleachers watching through this torture......cough....i mean drill.....later on the said they were fairly certain it was illegal in most provinces......i concur......but feel the burn!! falling and getting up (yes on purpose i say!) stopping and starting...oh yeah feel the burn......like fire on the muscles.....who knew i had them?? lol

THEN the dreaded pilons......my nemisis.......damn them pilons.......but i will succeed....i will....i will......oops, maybe not tonight...annnnd Pixel Ninja points out that he totally knows i can turn...LOL off to the pilons of hell i go..feet were cramping baaad tonight, like stomach sick.....stomp the shite outta your feet cramping......so im off the side of the floor, stomping and retying my laces, and ok, i admit it, swearing a little too......when Dii Mented rolls on by, she says....you coming on Friday? i say yeah......she says ok! get some waxed laces by then......if it will get rid of the fucking cramping, its on like donkey kong.

I made it longer than the practice before, hard, sweaty, sick to my stomach, aching, awesome practice!! at one point i rolled over to get a drink and Pixel Ninja asked me what i was doing...i said just getting a drink...he said good, cause your not leaving.....lol

Pixel Ninja separated us...newbies into the kiddie pool and vertrans on to harder training that was wayyyy over this newbies' head......while practicing on our own, i watched some of what the big girls were doing..pretty inpressive stuff....i aspire to be where they are someday.....thats my goal

Derby girl down!!! during an excersie Kitty Von Doom was hurt! she handled it like a pro, no tears were shed ( although i think i would have been sobbing..the rest of the girls take a knee to wait to see if she is ok or if she will need to go to the hospital....and the abrupt turn from being hurt and panic ridden to the pouting and pissed off Kitty Von Doom when she realized that she was gonna be missing the rest of practice! very cute....turns out Kitty has broken her ankle....in two places.

Shortly after she is taken from the arena for medical care i get called into work.....but the time i get my gear off and am in the car i get a message saying they don't need me.......and then i get home, lay on the couch and i get another call to come in.....off i go galivanting to pick up my client along some god forsaken road ......Tada!!

i stop here......keep watching the skys boys and girls.......you know why!

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