We made the TV Monday.

I haven’t been skating much!  It seems like I’ve only had my skates on about once every two weeks, and it’s been awful.  My knee’s pretty  much better–good enough to skate on, as long as I don’t go flying from some big hit–so tonight I’m excited to go and get my butt kicked at Mojo’s endurance practices.  This day has been so busy, I hope I find time to eat before then.  Lately it seems like I can’t fit in everything I need to do, let alone everything I want to do.  But that somehow makes every chance I get to skate that much sweeter, you know?

They all passed!  So exciting!!

Okay, so I went back Wed. night to practice.  The next two days, I needed a nap.  I was so wiped out leaving the rink Wed. night, I probably shouldn’t have driven.

Sometimes I think the fall weather is making it harder to get out there and bust a move, sometimes I blame my recent birthday–it felt like I turned a whole year older in one day.  And most of the time, I don’t blame anything–I just feel inadequate because training for roller derby is not my full time job and I can’t keep up with everything that is expected of me physically.  There just is not time in the day.

And then I feel stupid for letting people make me feel that way.  I’m doing the best I can and that should be enough.  You can’t progress at an exponential level forever.  That should be common sense.  You get better, you plateau.  You get better, you plateau.  That’s just the human body.

Anyway, yeah.  So, instead of feeling really *good* for going back to practice, I feel like I got my ass kicked.  Not very much fun.

What was fun?  Circle City Socialites maiden bout:

Screama and Me.  I’m sorry I got so damned drunk!  Omg.

Dutch (selling newspapers, I think), Screama, and Regis Killbin.  <3<3<3

Screama, you and that smirk are too freakin’ cute.

Dutch assesses tomorrow!!!!!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately.  I hurt something in my leg (I was calling it my knee, but I know think it’s a ligament of some kind, sort of behind and beside the knee), and I’m not doing any skating until the thing doesn’t hurt anymore.  I just don’t want to do any permanent damage to it.

It sucks getting hurt semi-regularly, because it’s very hard to stay in shape, and so much harder to come back from an injury than it is to keep going w/ your training.

Regardless, I do have a couple of items to note:

1.) I found my dress for prom.  (Yay!  Purple!)

2.)  There’s a bout this Sunday at ROCK, in Lexington.  I’m going to try and go.  Squee!

That is all.

Taking my boys to the park tonight to try out the new (used) cruisers I picked up a few weeks ago…as soon as I find the pads to go with.

I’m tired as hell, but it’s too pretty today not to spend it outside.  So, skating it is!

Did I describe the hitting drill we did Wed. night?  Eeka taught it to us, we skated for at least 45 straight, and practiced hitting beyond laterally (swooping back as if to kill the jammer).  I have bruises on both my arms, even though I took most of my hits to the gut.

Which reminds me, apparently roller derby isn’t sport enough for some people.  I read on some guy’s blog about how he pissed off Gotham (word to Haulin’ Cass), and one of his reactions was that roller derby isn’t a real sport because it’s not broadcast on television.

I can’t wait until my kids start up Little League again in the spring, so I can yawn and look bored and say “Whatevs, babies–it don’t matter if you hit the ball or not unless thems TeeBees be rollin’, yo!”  Then I’ll take a big bite of my corn dog, a swig of my 40 oz., and fall asleep on the grass reading a porn mag before the game’s over.  Because THAT’S how you encourage athletes in this country, right?

Anyway, that just ticked me off.

For not being a “real” sport, roller derby sure does sell a lot of tickets, anyway.

Unlike my kids’ Little League.

Outie.

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Totally fun!

Every once in awhile, someone asks me if it’s such a good idea to take supplements.  I have found that when I don’t take the Food for Thought and the Winrgy, I just don’t feel like I have the energy to take care of all my responsibilities.  I have tried only taking it on days when I don’t practice, and I just feel tired and sore and lethargic, if it’s a day after training.

On the days I do train, I like to take the Sure to Endure, as well, and I will usually take the FFT and the Winrgy twice in a day.  I also take calcium, magnesium, and potassium for my legs.  And there are other things I take, like Omega 3s, but those are probably the main things–write me if you want a detailed account of what I’m taking, when.

Anyway, in answer to those who wonder if I’m taking too much–I’ve done the math, and looked at food sources as well as supplements, and in total, I don’t think I’m taking too much.  I think I’m taking just what I need to train like I do.

Last night we did a hitting drill where we skated for forty-five minutes straight.  Sure, it wasn’t hard skating the entire time, but…seriously, when was the last time you skated 45 min. without stopping?  Really?

I did have to stop for a minute when I twisted my knee, but I iced it and got back up and only missed about five min. of skating.  And the point is, I was able to do that.  All of that.

I don’t think I could do that if I weren’t taking the right stuff and eating right.  I mostly eat vegetarian, because that’s how I feel best–meat makes me sick and makes me feel slowed down.  I eat it, I just don’t usually want it or like it.  Anyway, because I am a veg, I think my nutritional needs are prob. always going to be dependent on supplements, at least until I retire from derby.

Anyway, the title of this post refers to my face right now.  I have broken out really, really badly.  My first thought, looking at my skin, was that it might have something to do with a new supplement I tried.  I don’t know if it is or not–it might just be stress and too much meat, too much coffee, too many other pollutants, I’m not sure.  I have rosacea, and it’s been under great control for the past eight years, but I went ahead and made an appt. w/ my dermatologist for this coming Monday.

I’m curious what he will say–will he blame my vitamin usage?

Since I’ve been taking them for more than 6 months, I doubt it’s only now causing problems, overall.  But I will let you know.

Training-wise, things continue to progress, although I feel perpetually fatter and slower than I want to be.

Well, back to work for me.  I am working on a roller derby novel, so I  had better push through and make that real, huh?

The WIN supplements have really helped me a lot.  If you are interested, visit feeling-healthy.net.  Joost has been kind enough to sponsor my use of the products, which has been terrific!  (Choose the English version from the drop-down menu in the upper-right hand corner.)

Skated outside in the park w/ Sailor Scary and Dutch.  It got so dark, we couldn’t even see the duck poop.

I swear, it didn’t feel like we were out that long, but this morning I am sore as hell.

So sore I couldn’t sleep.  What’s up with THAT?