T-Minus Two Weeks

Last night I went to the roller derby bout and watched my soon-to-be teammates absolutely spank the Wisconsin girls who came out (no kidding, they beat them by something like 200 points), then, went to the after party where some of the team told me about what to expect from practice. Have you seen the movie Whip It? The jumping over people, the speeding up just to stop on a dime and skate in the opposite direction, the endless core work just in case a Howitzer happens to go off six-inches from your gut. Holy crap! But they were intimidating as all squalling hell during their warm ups, and I was completely riveted to my chair; where has this been all my life??

Anyway, Tuesday is the first "assessment" where they sort out...well, whatever they sort out about you, and practices start two weeks later. I already know I need to do some serious cobweb clearing before those start, though, unless I want to ring in the new year in traction, which I'm actually pretty sure I'll do anyway judging by how hard some of those blockers were hitting last night. Groan, with my schedule, it looks like I'm back on the 4:00 a.m. bus for running and core work; or maybe I should just throw myself into the wall and see how many times I can get up and do it again in under a minute? Either way, SO excited about the workouts, not excited about getting out of bed at WTF o'clock again. Ugh. Hello, pain; it's been a while. How's it going? I know, I know... it's been too long.

Thank God for Ironman.

The lead jammer on the team is wicked, supernatural fast. I think I love her.