We came we sold, we conquered!

And kicked ass!
Left to right: Blonde Sedition, Dolly Diablo, Shiza Revel, Cupid Stunt and Helen Fury



Sunday morning saw a collection of exceedingly dedicated rollergirls at Cheltenham racecourse by 7.30 am ready to flog vast amounts of accumulated 'treasure' to all and sundry. It was a tough day from my perspective, Sunday morning saw me up at 5am and out the house at 5.45, allowing an hour and a half for the journey which AA routefinder told me should take an hour. The extra half an hour being to cover my inevitably getting completely lost and needing to call people for directions after stubbornly driving around hoping for 20 minutes. Which is pretty much what I did.

I got there eventually and we had a fun morning raising a total of £140 for league funds which was awesome! Our own Ms Fury obviously missed her calling as a market trader and provided much amusement in luring innocent passers by with strident promises of bargains and girls in one.

Then it was straight onto practise which was a bit of a killer considering the length of the day. Unsurprisingly a bleep test endurance exercise demonstrated once again that I'm both unfit and stamina-less although I'm working on both. What surprised me was stability when being knocked - I did a contact exercise for the first time and was quite pleased at managing to stay largely upright. Unfortunately stability was somewhat less during the rest of the session - ironically the bits where people weren't trying to knock me over were the ones I was most likely to go flying on - I need more practise.

My couch to 5k program continues, I've just started week 2 today and am quite happy with it, although painfully (quite literally) aware that my lower leg muscles are very out of shape. They'll improve and I'm surprised and delighted that my chest is coping fine with running. Apparently stopping putting poisonous tar into your lungs helps you breathe. Who'da thought? Almost 6 weeks now since I quit and I'm stunned I've gone this long.

The weekend sees us off to Birmingham for the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames match against Middlesborough Milk Rollers. Its my first match as a visiting spectator team and I'm looking forward to it. Geoff is coming with - complete with his Derby Widow SRT t-shirt - and both the bout and the afterparty should be awesome. Photos will undoubtedly follow!

Take care, guys & girlies!

xx Rebel xx