You want to do what with a derby girl?

Last night I got my official uniform - complete with my name and number. How freaking cool. I love it all. The uniform of our team, "the c.andy sn.ipers", is red & white and consists of a red pleated cheerleader skirt, a red/white babydoll t-shirt depicting our logo (below) on the front & skater name (MurderRita) on the back and finished off with knee high red/white striped socks. We also wear our skates (old school roller skates) and a complete set of pads - elbow, wrist, knee - and a helmet.





We got everything in time for a fund raiser we are putting on tomorrow night. All the girls will be in complete skate gear/uniforms at a local pool hall. There, patrons can rent any one of us to shoot a game of pool. Yeah - roller derby girls, in uniform, playing pool, in skates. Perfect situation. To top it off, I haven't played pool consistently for oh, about 10 years.

As a side note: these skirts are not long enough to cover our asses standing up, much less bending over to shoot pool. We all know this and therefore wear novelty panties. Some are striped, some have words on them. I think I'll wear my ruffled butt panties. Maybe I'll raise a few more dollars by totally and completely exploiting my girlie parts. Hard core feminists probably hate girls like me, but the 'feminist' in ~me~ loves the fact we carry around so much power. And I only use my power for good - never for drinks, diamonds or a kiss. Quite a dichotomy - a feminist of sorts showing off a ruffled ass to make a few extra bucks for a good cause. At least no one can call me one-sided on anything, right? ~wink~

So if anyone out there is in Colorado Springs and wants to shoot a game of pool with me (or any other derby girl), come on out and rent me!

Roller Derby kicked my butt.

I've been out since Dec 17th, when I had my foot surgery. Actually, I had been out since the wednesday before that, Dec 12th, when I had last worn my skates.

Let's see, how long was that? 10 1/2 weeks.

During this time, I wasn't working out because well, I had a broken foot. Kinda of takes out most of my work out possibilities. Doc didn't want me to do anything more than brisk walking until the 8 week mark from surgery which was 2 weeks ago. I started out on my little mini stair climber i have here at home and did 30 minutes a day while watching tv at night.

Last night was obviously my first day back at roller derby and I started out the night like I hadn't been away.

First up was warm ups where we skate at regular pace and our coach blows a whistle every few seconds (that seems like forever) and we squat to the ground. Up and down, up and down.

Next is simple stretching which is taken very seriously.

Now comes actual practice. Sprinting drills are first. We skate at normal pace and then the whistle blows. Sprint! You skate as fast as you possible can. At this time you also work on your communication where you let people you are passing know where you are. There are about 40 girls so it can get to be quite a cluster. Push! Push! Push! I hear my couch yell at us. And I push it. I'm not the fastest by far, but fortunately, after 10 1/2 weeks out, I'm not the slowest. I skate my ass off and I want to shove that whistle up his ass.

Water break. And now I realize I am actually limping while skating. My surgically improved foot is shooting knife pain throughout the front. By the time the next drill starts (skating a skinny coned in course through many twists and turns for speed) I realize I can't push off my right foot. That means no turning. I try to just sprint and instead of going inside the course, I go on the outside and have to hold my right foot off the ground completely.

I'm done. I have to sit it out for the rest of practice with an ice bag on my foot. I'm pissed and I feel lame. I'm finally back on the team and I can't add anything of value.

I sit it out until strength training at the end where we do ab work and push ups. Then we all have to do squats up and down the rink which no one likes. Especially after a hard workout.

I'm sore today and I'm pondering my options. Of course I will quit as soon as I get pregnant. Of course I'll have to take some days off while I go through my bed rest surrounding IVF. But until then, I want to be a part of my team. I don't want to let them down - even if I'm there just to help them practice and become a better team. And I can't. And that sucks.

oh yeah - my official derby name is ...

MurderRita.

I made the team!

I passed my skills assessment last night! I'm officially a Pikes Peak Derby Dame!

The next step is for one of the teams to pick me up. I'll either be a Candy Sniper or a Danger Doll.

In ttc news ... well, i'm finally seeing those BFNs I needed to see to know trigger is completely out of my system. ;)

What am I? 70?

I'm only half way to 70! So why is it that I feel like I am already twice my age?

Last night we did falling drills. Skating and dropping to one knee (and getting up). Skating and dropping to both knees (and getting up). Then we had to do sprinting drills, but from laying down on our backs and then getting up. And on our bellies and then getting up.

THEN, to round out practice, we worked on hitting drills.

Fun. Fun. Fun.

I am SO sore. My god. I'm SORE. Knees ache. Back aches. Everything aches.

Derby tonight.

I just want to state for the record that I honestly don't know how I will be able to practice tonight. My thighs hurt ~so bad~ from derby practice on Monday - I can barely walk.

How in the world will I be able to get through tonight? I need to stop at the store and pick up some advil. Ibuprofen - the wonder drug.

If I can actually get myself moving tonight, I hope to have another good night. Monday night's practice was fucking awesome. The coach had us all (new recruits included) run drills for about 30 minutes. Then he separated all the new recruits from the rest of the team to work on basic skills. As soon as he split us up, he took 3 of the new recruits, myself included, and had us move to the regular team practice. It was scary, but I did a real workout WITH the team. It was super hard and you could definitely tell I was the new girl, but I held my own. I was able to hang out with a lot of the girls and really get to know some of them. I can't tell you how cool it was to be running drills and during my laps, hearing a shitload of girls screaming my name in support.

I still need to come up with a name. I thought of "Pippi Hard Sockings" but it was taken. I really love the over-the-knee socks I get to wear, so having "sock" in the name would of been cool. Back to the drawing board. Some of the ones we've been tossing around, but nothing really sticks yet:

~ Brazilian WaxHer (better if I was of darker complexion)
~ Circles of Equal Anger (funny, but it's because of an inside joke)
~ Kills-n-bury Doughgirl
~ Tale of Two Fisties (except a girl on the team is named "Fanny Fister" and I don't want to be the tale of her fisties.)
~ Knockin Noggins Nancy
~ ImPaleHer

That was fun. & I need some HELP!

I had so much fun last night just meeting all the girls. I want in. Definitely. Going to start going to practice.

So much fun that I didn't even flinch at my 10dpiui BFN. (okay, so it's a teeny early, but still.)

I need to come up with a name. The key to the name is it can't be taken nor even like any other names. Here is the ~master roster~. Did you take a look? See. It's an nearly impossible job.

I want my name to be a play on words. Even including my own name. I thought of "sick 'em Nancy" like Sid n Nancy, but "Skid'n Nancy" was already taken. I have an awesome version of Nancy Sinatra though, that it the forerunner of my own ideas.

I need your help. Any ideas out there? Any at all?