What is it about obligatory blogs that makes me lame at updating when I promise to? I'm exactly the same on my professional blog, yet I manage to write reams and reams of angsty stuff on my personal blog on a pretty much daily basis.
Either way, 3rd week of the new year and second post - in my defense, I didn't actually make the second week's practise however that's not really an excuse not to post.
So apology done, I'll turn to this week's roller derby session which was somewhat away from the norm in that we had a guest skater running it for the first hour, due to car trouble with our regular trainers. Justine Credible happened to be along to make up for missing her own Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames practise on Saturday and with 10 minutes notice managed to run what was an excellent first hour. I was also rather happy in that in the real, non-derby world, she's known as my friend Charlotte (more accurately, my husband's friend Charlotte but I've adopted her for my own!) and we don't see her enough.
I was ecstatic that the weird photographic memory I have for text kicked in for the rules test in that the first time I'd even looked at the rules was in the first 10 minutes of our car journey there. I knew the answers to almost all questions asked of people, and apart from being thrown briefly by the on-the-spotness of my own first question, held up fine. I'm not a swot - I'm just fast at memorising things!
We did get our regular trainers, Helen Fury and Cupid Stunt when they arrived late due to car trouble and practise was fun and exhausting. I did manage to fall badly, felt me ankle twinge at the time and now, several hours later its quite painful. Usable but I don't think I'll be running anywhere for a couple of days. Knocks, bumps and twinges all part of the fun though, and it was entirely my own fault for going faster than I am stable with around a corner.
It also turns out that almost no-one on the team can skate backwards, myself included which made for an interesting snail's-pace relay exercise. I suspect its one of those things where once the technique 'clicks' in your brain, its fine but until that happens its completely counter-intuitive - your entire body is geared up to making the motions to go forward and can't handle reversing them.
Finally there was drinks at the pub and this week I was able to actually have a beer (as I'd made Geoff drive me there - in my defence he wouldn't have wanted to miss seeing Charlotte anyway). Drink good, I'm a lot more sociable with alcohol in my system and it was a lot of fun.
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