Q: Will I ever learn? A: No.

ORTHO GUY: don't do anything that will make your knee hurt.

PT GUY: Take the week off skates.

ME: Oh, I'll skate, I just won't do any contact stuff.  (skates 3 laps)  Ow.  Ow. Ow. Fuck.

so yeah, lesson learned. 

so things continue apace

Our first half-hour bout on Saturday did not start well - at one point we were behind 22-1.  But we kept chugging along and chugging along until we got to the last jam, less than a minute to go, and we were behind, 63-54. 

(I, of course, was watching from right outside of the box office, screaming at the top of my lungs.)

Our jammer got lead, and our blockers held their jammer back, and back, and back.  Scoring pass - 5 points.  Other jammer breaks the pack.  They're both exhausted, you can see it in their skating.  Other jammer is about 1/2 the track behind our jammer.  Second scoring pass - 4 points and she calls it.

It's a tie.  Everyone is freaking the hell out. 

Everyone lines up for the overtime jam.  Points are scored on the initial pass.  No lead jammer, it goes for two minutes.

And....go!

Our jammer scores points.  Their jammer scores points.  Our jammer scores points.  Their jammer scores points.  Two minutes pass.  The scoreboard reads 79-78, our team on top.

Finally, FINALLY the officials blow the whistle and the bout is over and WE WON YAAAAAAAAAAY.

(we won the second bout handily.) :)

In other news, I had my PT session today.  I went to a place that's right around the corner from my house that looked like it was last remodeled back in the early 80's, in a "Basement" style. The guy was really nice, though; he did ultrasound stuff on my knee and said it looked like it was healing nicely and I should just take one more week off and then I should be good to go.  Yay!

have I mentioned that getting old sucks?

my knee needs to make up its mind on if it's going to hurt or not.  Yesterday I walked around most of the day and around Maverick's school (it was Open House night) with no problems at all.  Today (in the same shoes I wore yesterday), it's step - ow - step - ow.

And then last night I was getting these weird random sharp super-painful pains in my left hip.  I consider myself pretty resistant to pain, but I was yelling (and woke up my husband) when it would happen.

So yeah, getting old sucks.  Turning forty in 16 days.  Whee?

laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa de daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

so I went to the ortho guy yesterday about my knee.  he thinks it's just a slight strain of the meniscus.  He said "take inflammatories, don't do anything that makes it hurt, here's a prescription for 4-6 weeks PT, you'll be fine."

So I think I'm going to take a few weeks off from parkour.  I think my setup is that I bought a specific number of classes, and can just take them later.  I MUST SKATE IN NOVEMBER'S BOUT. 

argh

my left knee is bugging me.  It started after parkour.  It only hurts when I walk.  Sitting, flexing, squatting, full weight is perfectly fine and dandy, but I walk and it's a pain on the inside of my leg.

Man, if I could cut my knees out and glue in cyberknees, I would BE FIRST IN LINE.  They crunch worse than Rice Krispies.

At any rate, I have an appointment with the ortho guy tomorrow (same guy I went to back in January 2012).  I really hope it's not a "you need to rest for six weeks" deal because I will be like HEY I JUST RESTED FOR SIX WEEKS GODDAMMIT I AM TIRED OF RESTING.

onward and upward continued

Last night was scrimmage, but I didn't skate.  The B team is getting together for one last-minute bout this weekend, and the first half of the night was exclusively for those who were gonna be going.  Since I'm not going, I didn't skate, and I can only go for half the practice time on Thursdays, so I wouldn't have skated anyway.  Plus, I had a little bit of twinging in my left knee that I didn't want to exacerbate.

But, I went anyway.  Our Safety Czar for the league was starting to do baseline testing for concussions and I wanted to get that done ASAP.  Basically, we had to read a bunch of numbers on a card in a certain order and whatnot, and there was a section where there was, say, the word "red" in blue ink and you had to say the color of the word rather than the word itself (the red ink on whatever printer had been used was running low, so I was like "blue....purple....streaky red....yellow....streaky orange") and then repeat lists of words and numbers given to us.

From where I was standing, I could see my times on the timekeeper's spreadsheet, as well as those of the people who took the test before me, and I actually got upset/annoyed that on the color/word test, I got a slow time.  Competitive much?  Sheesh.

I was elected as Lead WFTDA Rep, so this will be the my third (non-consecutive) term on the league's Board of Directors (this upcoming term will be the 6th term). 

In non-derby but still fitness-related news, I bought a pair of parkour shoes (these ones, which are the same kind my instructor has).  I thought they'd be insanely expensive, but $16 SIGN ME UP.  If they work well, I'll get a pair for Maverick.  I know he wants to go on with it after the lessons I bought are over.

I have to exercise today.  That whole 7 minute workout thing seems to work for me - it's long enough that I actually feel like I accomplished something, but it's only 7 minutes long. 

Completely non-derby related

I just wanted to show off my nails - for the first time in about 15-16 years they are relatively nice-looking -