It was back in the days when I was line-up managing more often than I was doing anything else. The team I was managing for was in the Championship game…
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The first time I stepped into the rink to attend roller derby practice, it took me ages. I vividly remember sitting in my car thinking of all the reasons why this…
“Your mind needs to be like water,” he said. Okay. Fine. But I’m a very literal person and that literally means nothing to me. So he continued: “Imagine a clear pond…
I’m going to repeat that title for posterity: THERE IS NO PERFECT TRAINING PLAN. There’s not a perfect training plan for roller derby athletes. There’s not a perfect training plan…
Honestly? It was a question that I’d never been asked outright before, but it’s also one that I think about incessantly. You might say that it’s the question that helped…
Sometimes, people slide into my DMs. And, despite the connotations of that phrase, it’s not as unpleasant as you might imagine it would be. There was the skater that desperately…
At the beginning of last year, with the success of my business at the forefront of my brain, I made a commitment to myself to lose weight and gain muscle. The truth was…
Not long before I sat down to write this blog, I texted a friend of mine a picture of a pair of boots that he really wants to buy. And…
“I’m just busy,” she said to me. “And frustrated that I can’t stick with my training days because they take forever.” I was talking to a client of mine that…
Because Santa didn’t deliver on your left-footed plow stop this year… And you’re not holding out hope that Cupid, St. Paddy, or the Easter Bunny will come through either. From…