Skate update.

Last Sunday (the 15th), we had our first official indoor training session at a private rink. We started off with warm-up laps and then followed with slaloms, figure eights, forward and backward scissors.

Then we were taken through some leg and abdominal exercises, with our skates on, to strengthen our core, followed by upper body work, ie. push-ups. I've always stuck with the one standard push-up. We did the standard, then the wide arm, and finally the narrow arm. I don't know if you've ever done a narrow arm push-up but it hurts. Lots.

After getting back on our feet (not as easy as it sounds after that workout), we did a few more laps then started a snake drill. I stuck with it for a couple of rounds but had to pull out once the speed really picked up. I really need to work on my stamina and breathing.

Our final drill was sprints and falling. This has to be my favourite drill. From one end of the rink, we'd sprint and either double knee slide/single knee slide/180-degree knee slide/baseball slide, scramble back up and sprint back and do it all over again. After about 10 of these, gravity is not your friend. What I also like about this drill is that it is one of the only drills where I forget that I have skates on.

Finally, we cast our sweaty, disgusting pads and skates aside and warmed down with some stretches and balance exercises. We were stuffed.

Monday was difficult. My hip flexors wanted nothing to do with me. I drank lots of water (sorry about the drought) so that I would be forced to get up every 45 minutes and stretch my legs.

I can't wait to do it all again this Sunday.

'Hell on Wheels' movie trailer (warning: coarse language)

Who would have thought...

Before I moved to Melbourne, I took a part time contract job as an Event Producer's Production Assistant (Prod. Ass. to some).

After I moved to Melbourne, I continued to work in Events and worked in various roles including Production Assistant, Volunteer Supervisor, Publicity Manager, Design Director's Assistant, Show Director's Assistant, Scissor lift operator and Bump Out Crew, to name a few.

When I finally realised that contract work, and more specifically, event management, wasn't for me, I walked away thinking, 'What a waste of 15 months.'

Five years later, all those 'skills' that I picked up in that 15 months have become very useful and there are times when I wish I had paid a little more attention.

Fortunately, being a hoarder, I think still have my notes from my first job. I just have to find the time to dig them out.

I'm just babbling because I've been reading over Sponsorship Packages and By-Laws for the past two hours and it's all becoming discombobulated.

All's quiet on the Melbourne front.

Not.

It's actually frantically busy here.

I'm involved in a very special project.

No, J1 and J2, it doesn't involve anything to do with India. Not yet, at least.

Apart from working, I have been skating, training, researching, documenting, reading and editing... it seems like I'm only ever home to eat and sleep. Sometimes I forego the eating because I need to sleep.

It's as exhausting as it is exhilirating.

But soon, hopefully, I will have some good news to tell and all these long days and trips to suburbs I've never even heard of will bear some results.

But get used to the following names because you're going to be hearing a lot about them in the very near future: Betty Bamalam, Cherry Rockette, Hidden Magenta, Denim Destructor and Baby James.

Peace, love and toestops...