At the beginning I literally couldn't carry on a conversation while on my skates without falling over. Now you can hit me, bump skates with me, I can skate on one foot while turning to look behind me (well, one leg anyway), I can jump and turn in a circle, I can jump over three obstacles in a row (!) and almost almost almost do 25 laps in 5 minutes. I wouldn't call myself good by any stretch but when I saw the Hamilton team play on Saturday I thought maybe we were almost as good as them (OK, they got their asses kicked deservedly, but still...).
I do hurt myself fairly regularly. I don't know if everyone else does this. I think I'm just old and heal slowly.
- Week one I tore my medial cruciate ligament (MCL). That was bad. It still hurts but it's getting better.
- The week I had the flu I fell on my ass several times in the same place but didn't do any serious injury, however I did something to my rib cage which lasted several weeks. When I ran my ribs would go into spasm so I couldn't breathe. That was fun.
- The week we did whips I strained my tricept on the arm I broke since it apparently has no strength at all.
- The week we had Aston Martini and her gang my leg slipped while plow stopping and I did something somewhat major to the muscles at the back of my *other* knee, the right one. This hurts and cramps up when I run which is a total pain in the arse, but if I stop to stretch it it seems to go away. I thought this was minor but it's been a month or so and it's still bugging me.
- This week I strained something in my upper thigh - not my regular quad, but something higher up so I can't lift my leg higher than parallel to the floor. It doesn't hurt to run though.
I gotta tell you, none of these has caused me to miss a week of practice. Call me stupid, but I figure if it doesn't actually hurt, I can work through it. I don't want to miss a minute of track time.
Three weeks to go. The sun is shining. Time to master the stuff I can't do:
- Plow stops.
- Skating on one leg.
- Weaving through cones on one leg.
- Fast starts
Get on with it. There's lots of time to be in a wheelchair when you flunk out of derby.
1 comment:
agreed, or when you are dead.
mighty impressed you can jump an obstacle!!!!!
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