The wheels on my feet go round and round
May. 6th, 2012 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sacredchaoYesterday was a good day. Up moderately early and away to thornbury to meet with lovely people for a trip up to St Andrew's market. There was chai and browsing and purchasing of jackets and coats. The just above knee-length black velvet coat with the double row of brass buttons down the front is a new favourite and many points of spendiferousness to Lisa for pointing it out to me. The other was a sort of heavy stretch denim jacket, about hip length. It's a fun cut. I not that it's also made by a company called Gasp. I have at least one other thing by them, possibly a couple and I've certainly noticed the name in the past. I think I like their work.
After that, a brief get together with the people of Genderqueer Aust before training. As usual, I really enjoyed training. I like the new toestops although they need to be screwed in 2-3 turns as they poke out a bit far. Backing off the trucks (half a turn) was win but I think taking another turn out of them is warranted as it really felt like I hadn't taken it far enough. At the end of training though we did another endurance run. They broke us up into three group which was nice because it gave us a relatively clear track. When I did the dummy run for white star testing I managed 29 laps. This time I managed 31 and Im feeling rather pleased with myself. This is over the course of five minutes so I managed to turn slightly better than one lap of a derby track every 10 seconds and maintain that pace for five minutes. My lungs were burning at the end of it (and were sore for a couple of hours afterwards) and it seems to have seriously accelerated the post smoking lung clearing process but I like the fact that I can push that hard for five minutes solid.
Post-training evening drinks were fun as usual. I suspect I caught the very last Sandringham traing home...I *could* have cycled home from Flinders St; it's not as if I don't so that ride regularly but I'm glad I didn't have to.
Today was a bit of a mess. There was a derby bout in Rosebud that I really wanted to go to. It turns out that if I want to get to Rosebud by 12:30 on a Sunday, I have to be on the 8:24 out of Ripponlea. I wasn't expecting that and so wasn't out of bed in time. Bother. Still, a quiet morning and then some relaxed op shop browing on Chapel (a couple of lovely finds that were just a bit too small, but nothing actually purchased) followed by meeting up with two of the three people I went ot St Andrews market with made for a lovely evening. Mind you, I think I don't like drag much. I have a couple of reasons for it but I still don't think I fully understand why. Glad of the company for the evening though, some people are always fun to be around.
After that, a brief get together with the people of Genderqueer Aust before training. As usual, I really enjoyed training. I like the new toestops although they need to be screwed in 2-3 turns as they poke out a bit far. Backing off the trucks (half a turn) was win but I think taking another turn out of them is warranted as it really felt like I hadn't taken it far enough. At the end of training though we did another endurance run. They broke us up into three group which was nice because it gave us a relatively clear track. When I did the dummy run for white star testing I managed 29 laps. This time I managed 31 and Im feeling rather pleased with myself. This is over the course of five minutes so I managed to turn slightly better than one lap of a derby track every 10 seconds and maintain that pace for five minutes. My lungs were burning at the end of it (and were sore for a couple of hours afterwards) and it seems to have seriously accelerated the post smoking lung clearing process but I like the fact that I can push that hard for five minutes solid.
Post-training evening drinks were fun as usual. I suspect I caught the very last Sandringham traing home...I *could* have cycled home from Flinders St; it's not as if I don't so that ride regularly but I'm glad I didn't have to.
Today was a bit of a mess. There was a derby bout in Rosebud that I really wanted to go to. It turns out that if I want to get to Rosebud by 12:30 on a Sunday, I have to be on the 8:24 out of Ripponlea. I wasn't expecting that and so wasn't out of bed in time. Bother. Still, a quiet morning and then some relaxed op shop browing on Chapel (a couple of lovely finds that were just a bit too small, but nothing actually purchased) followed by meeting up with two of the three people I went ot St Andrews market with made for a lovely evening. Mind you, I think I don't like drag much. I have a couple of reasons for it but I still don't think I fully understand why. Glad of the company for the evening though, some people are always fun to be around.
