Day Twenty Nine: Gotta Roll With It, Gotta Take My Time

Let's just gloss over some aspects of today. High points, weird points, some degree of perspective alteration. The choices I chose, so let's just roll with it.

Rollin', on Jukes
As soon as I get these they are being thrown in a bucket of dye.

Aikido/Fitness: Still as jumpy as a tigger. My body is in relentless top gear as a result of the long hours I'm putting in so even when I leave the dojo, I'm tired but restless. If I go out afterwards all I want to do is jump, spring and glide through rollbacks and pushes. Ridiculous. My feet ache something terrible (sigh, always the feet) as a result of the pressure from spending nearly all day in a squat, shifting weight and running backwards. Spending so much time running backwards. Aside from having busted a tendon (feels like the extensor hallucis brevis) I've developed callouses from the circles I've been running. 8.30am till 5.30pm tonight, had to attend some important social events.

Derby: Skills test for the PCR girls. I went along to support Starsong and Chinky Minx as I won't be skating with PCR. It's too much to get into as to why, but I've spent enough time considering what was on offer to regret my decision. See ya'll at Roller Con! (...and Blood & Thunder, Aotearumble, public sessions...)

Diet: Weetbix, tea, a bumper bar, mammoth sandwich, beer, chips, some sort of mince and vegetable mix, chocolate milk. I had a friends birthday drinks tonight before the skills test and I'm not the kind of prat to be socially annoying and not drink / eat at the bar because of some diet restrictions. My training is a priority, so these sorts of events are not every night. It also makes these occasions significantly more relaxed, enjoyable and fun. Still should have gotten something more substantial for dinner, but then I missed two hours in the dojo.

Sleep: Slept in a wee bit, but fortunately have found a quicker way to the dojo so was only three minutes late. It's hard with the long days of training - there's no opportunity to catch up but it's nine straight days of twelve hour training sessions.... I've had to sneak in social things in afterwards which makes the days longer but I didn't really want to leave some things for so long! The times, they are busy. Monday morning - I'm looking at you - it's gonna be bliss sleeping in till 8 or 9am.










I'm a ball of fluffies. Pheeeeeee.