Gears of Derby

I really hope that no one thinks that my decision to quit the team was easy. I cried and over thought the decision for months. Leaving your new best friends is never easy.
I didn’t leave for the other league! Actually, I’ve made no plans to join the new league in town, but I am going to meet them to keep my options open.
Even though I left I feel like I’ve been dumped.
Packing up my gear with watery eyes.

I have been back on the track for a few weeks and I am better. I am learning to take my misplaced aggression from work and use it on the track. Every time I leave practice I let out a big breath and realized how much it helped. I really wish I also felt this way about working out. I am more stable on my skates but there are some things that I am still lacking the confidence to complete. Since I am still in physical therapy for my knee, I have been skipping the practices that are heavy cardio. I always feel like I am pounding just a bit more than the Wed. and Thurs. practices. I have been making up this skate time with the Wreck Night skaters. It is an easier way for me to get some track time in with very little pressure. I love skating on Wednesday, I call it skills night. We usually spend an hour working on drill and scenarios that should improve our team work. Thursdays, there is a pace line and hitting drill then we scrimmage for about an hour and a half. To me its one of the best nights of the week. I will not be too excited to return to Mondays when I am the slowest on the track. I told myself that I was going to work on cardio at home but I still haven’t figured out an easy way to fit it in my schedule. 

I bought a workout game for the xBox kinect, I should be able to fit in twenty minutes here or there to get it all done. The end result will be me in shape. I am glad to be back on eight wheels. 

Being back is great! I am coming to accept that I am slower that some of my counterparts and that I may not bout until next year. Its just hard when co-workers and friends ask me when I will be skating and I have to explain that I am not ready yet and there are fifty other girls better than me. 

I currently in physical therapy. The staff members are understanding and seem very knowledgeable. I hope this helps with my various joint issues. 

My gear is in need of some TLC. I am talking about functionality and not beautification. 

• Wipe off wheels
• Re-lace
• Reapply tape
• Wash pads

I only managed to get one of the many things I needed to do off of my list. 

I have an issue with my current schedule and it is killing me, or could kill me. Here is my schedule….

• 5:30 Wakeup 
• 6:15 Leave for work
• 7:00 Work call
• 3:30 Quitting time
• 4:15 Get home, feed animals, and other domestic shit
• 7:00 Leave for practice
• 8:00 Practice 
• 10:10 Leave practice
• 10:30-:45 Get home, unpack smelly gear, and shower
• 11:15 In bed, move dog, stare at ceiling for about 30 mins, sleep, 
• Repeat 

This hectic schedule leaves me absolutely exhausted!! The sleep deprivation is causing me to fall asleep during my morning and afternoon commutes, in addition to putting me in a generally bitchy mood. I am not sure what to do, I need my job and I really enjoy skating. I used to read and occasionally watch television. I have had to give up most of my other hobbies or move them to the weekend. This is why I am having trouble keeping up with my three blogs. I am in need of a solution. 

Back from the doctor. I have been cleared to resume normal activity. Prescribed physical therapy for ITB syndrome and the other injury was cleared up with the cortisone shot. My knee is wobbly from wearing a brace for a month. So it should take me a month the get things sorted out. 

Now its time to play catch up!!! I am not going to practice tonight, giving myself the rest of the weekend.