First full two hour practice

I'm not in love with the team name...Mountain Derby Girls...? I wish I were there for the decision making process, but I didn't join until January 29th....it started at the beginning of January. Here's the advert.

I might have gone with a Motherlode-ish name...(if I had to choose between Mountain and Motherlode)...but it's done now..we're officially registered....

I skated for 16 minutes, at nearly my full-speed , before I felt it...this is what I will build from...this statistic...

When I bought my roller skates at age 18, for working at Corrozzi's Drive In as a car-hop, I screwed up curing the tongue and so it crinkles up on the toes of my left foot. I had to untie and adjust my skates about three times in the two hours...So I splurged and purchased some BRAND NEW SKATES....the Reidell Wicked model:

Then it was on to creating a personal skater name to be registered under...(even MORE fun!)....It had to be Alice...and it had to be not dark.....well...there was Alice in Anarchistland...plain Alice (not allowed by the official rules. Whatever I chose, it had to have Alice in it, and it had to be an open blogspot.com so I could blog this new chapter of getting back on my wheels.....(SWEET JESUS IT FELT SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD)....! Here is the offical list of registered skater names in the U.S.

http://www.twoevils.org/rollergirls

The official name of Sweet Alyce fit both my criteria....and as my adoption papers said....I "Henceforth shall be known as".... Sweet Alyce - (unofficially) in Anarchyland...and of the Mountain Derby Girls...

Tonight we practiced stopping with stoppers and with the T-stop...going through cones...figure eight crossovers...pushing our
legs out and in as we skate..the cannonball...(my old skates can't hang with the cannonball...they don't roll too well with no me propelling them...)....and hopping up and down on one foot (as if to jump over fallen players)....

Kicked ass....had a great time....loving this...hope I won't be too sore in the morning... I took an asperin and a hot shower when I got home....another team member told me that advice...and to take an EmergenC before I come to help my lungs....definite WILL DO...

Not to end this on a bummer..but a fact of roller derby is the falling...and here I will post a photo of my friend, "The Magic Elbow", (or Mag for short) and her first injury....two falls directly on her elbow...OUCH!