Keeps me off the streets? Not so much.
Jul. 7th, 2012 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sacredchaoI had skates on for nine hours today. I met up with a few people from Northside and a couple not from Northside at the museum today. We weren't there to actually go into the museum but because of the marvelously smooth paving they have out the front. We thumped about there for a while, a few of those there went home and the four of us who remained went down to Southbank for more skating and coffee. Somehow, three of the four of us were trans so it was a gloriously gender diverse derbygirl outing which was spectacularly good fun and very comfy indeed.
From there it was out to Eltham for a showing of Derby Baby at the Skaterz rink and they'd agreed to open up the rink afterwards. Having skated to the car and then going straight to a rink it seemed silly to change out of my skates and so I just kept them on until the rink closed at 11pm. That was an awful lot of skating goodness but I really don't feel skated out, even if the 88 duro (soft) wheels I'd put on for outside skating were waaaay too soft for a prepared rink surface and made me work extra hard, especially during the speed skating. Fortunately, this chest infection appears to be just about on its last legs so I should survive training tomorrow nicely.
So yet again I'm feeling the derby love and adoring the people I meet through it. It's an amazingly positive thing in my life and that doesn't seem to be unusual. More if this for me, I think. I'm just not seeing a downside to it.
From there it was out to Eltham for a showing of Derby Baby at the Skaterz rink and they'd agreed to open up the rink afterwards. Having skated to the car and then going straight to a rink it seemed silly to change out of my skates and so I just kept them on until the rink closed at 11pm. That was an awful lot of skating goodness but I really don't feel skated out, even if the 88 duro (soft) wheels I'd put on for outside skating were waaaay too soft for a prepared rink surface and made me work extra hard, especially during the speed skating. Fortunately, this chest infection appears to be just about on its last legs so I should survive training tomorrow nicely.
So yet again I'm feeling the derby love and adoring the people I meet through it. It's an amazingly positive thing in my life and that doesn't seem to be unusual. More if this for me, I think. I'm just not seeing a downside to it.
