G'day, I'm Shan. I grew up roller skating as my uncle owned a rink, was a national speed skating champ and the captain of the Australian mens roller hockey team when I was growing up on the beautiful beaches of the Sunshine Coast. On moving from Queensland to northern Tasmania in 2009, I thought getting back into skating through roller derby would be a great way to meet like-minded folk, get fit & make friends. I completed two levels of fresh meat (bronze & silver) early last year with the Van Diemen Rollers. VDR is another league which split due to directional differences and I now skate with the recently formed Devil State Derby League. My goal is to develop not only my physical skills but the strategy development and execution required of a Pivot.

Outside of derby I love driving my classic car, educating myself (onto my third degree... post graduate law... hence the derby name MissDemeaner), listening to, playing and writing about music under the name queennahs, continuing my career in telecommunications contract management, working on losing weight and getting fit and generally enjoying the spoils of living in a beautiful wine region in a special waterfront home with my gorgeous man and our two Amstaffs. Yep, that about sums me up!

It's encouraging to be here doing this challenge with women of differing experience and fitness levels from near and far. I think it will keep me striving to do better and better.

hthowdy folks-

I have skated for the Tilted Thunder Rail Birds in Seattle WA and now skate with OneWorld Roller Derby in Seattle. I have 2 years skating derby with a several month break when I fractured my ankle just before my debut bout Dec 2011. Ive inline skated, roller skated, hiked, biked and more before derby. I am also a sprint triathlete before derby but got a little lonely. I love the community I have found in Derby and will be coaching a Jr league as this new year gets underway. I am a an avid fan of Frida Kahlo and a her husband Diego Rivera and Mexican art in general. I have started my Masters in Social Work and work as a program manager insocial and health services. I have 6 chickens in my back yard and grow a fairly decent garden. I love to cook, skate, laugh. I dont drink or smoke or .... sober 5 years. I have a 20 year old son who is at university who a wonderful friend and I grew up on a hippy commune with no indoor plumbing..

Im a little overweight right now and would like to slim down by about 20 lbs because it feels better to me and I can move faster stronger easier. Looking forward to this challenge now that I am not broken..

derby love..

Hi everyone!

I'm Admiral DeJenerate and I skate with the Undead Bettys in Antioch, CA. I joined the league in June 2011 and have gone through our Infected (fresh meat) and Dead (scrimmaging/non-bouting) programs. I passed to our bouting level in December and our practices start back up tonight. VERY excited! Our first bout is March 3rd and I'll be skating for our "B" team, The Damned Skaters.

Count me in among the RollerCon 2012 attendees - I've created so many challenge bouts it's almost like that's all I will be doing if they are all on the schedule. LOL. I'm also going to Yosemite Slam (Fast Girl U) at the end of this month and March RADness down in Los Angeles.

Outside of derby, I'm a long-distance runner, I work for the federal government, and I am attending school full-time to get my paralegal certificate (my 4th piece of parchment). Whew. I don't have much time for anything else. I've been married for two years (he works swing shift so thankfully I have free time in the evenings to get all these extracurriculars done) and we have two crazy boy cats.

I'm coming back to running from an injury - I fractured both sesamoid bones in my right foot from skates that were too big. I just started running again about a week and a half ago. I ran 10 half marathons in 2011, 9 in 2010, and 2 in 2009, just to give you an idea where I'm at with regards to running. I've also run one marathon and am a certified coach.

My goals are to lose 20 lbs, get more agile, and learn to be a kick-*kitten* jammer/blocker. Two of our "A" team jammers have decided not to continue with us this season, which means more opportunities for those of us coming up. I'm 6'1" but I can get really low, which I've used to my advantage more than once. It blows people's minds.

Derby love to all!

Hi everyone

I'm Gail... I just started skating as fresh meat for the Savannah Derby Devils... I haven't debuted yet, so my name is still up in the air... I grew up skating so derby was the only way to go for me...
and this workout will help me do that... My schedual is really screwy since I work third shift, but I'm hoping to stick with it...

Nice to see Savannah has a derby team! I grew up there and miss it so very much

Hi!
I'm Rabies, and I just finished my first season skating with GTA Rollergirls in Toronto. I started training about a year and a half ago, so I'm still fairly new. I'm was a jammer on our all-rookie team this season, and I really loved it. I'm five feet tall, and not very big (although I like to say that I'm bigger than I look , so I'm not really looking to lose weight so much as get in shape. I'm one of those "never played a sport before, always had my period in gym class" types. So with derby, I've pretty much been starting from scratch, fitness-wise. I work in a health food store, and I'm a cyclist, but the winter keeps me off my bike. Yay, winter exercise!

Hi everyone! I am Kryptonite with the OC Roller Girls in southern California. I'm still kinda new to this website, but I'm so glad that I found this group!
i'm using My Fitness Pal to keep track of my diet and log my workouts. I'm hoping this will lead me to a healthier lifestyle. I have been part of OCRG since 2005. Lately, I've been getting into the mentality that I can eat whatever I want because I will eventually "skate it off". Obviously, my metabolism doesn't work that way. I'm starting to cross train a little more by going to the gym more often. My ultimate goal is to skate faster and hit harder... and to *finally* be able to complete a pull-up!

I'm Bughouse Cuckoo and I skate with the Peninsula Roller Girls in Redwood City, CA (we are a year old now, yay!). I'm relatively new to this site but though it would be a good way for me to track how I'm doing on the Workout Challenge. I'm not looking to lose a lot of weight but I'd like to shed a little. I skated as a jammer for our travel team at the end of last year but our league is growing fast and more skaters are eligible for the travel time that I need to step it up if I want to keep my spot. There are so many girls in our league that that are "since I started Derby I've lost so much weight" and I have gained weight- no not all of it is muscle. I need to stop, like Kryptonite said, eating anything because I'll just burn the calories at practice. I want to work on my eating habits and gain strength, skate faster and be a lean, mean jamming machine.

Hi All!

I'm Chloe but my Derby name is Pinki K. Pow. I am fresh meat with WA roller Derby in Western Australia. I started skating in October last year to lose weight, control my anxiety (exercise and getting involved in things helps!) and to play Roller Derby. i'm going to go all metric on your *kitten* now - since then, I have lost a total of 40cm from my body - I think it all went into my Knee/Elbow/Wrist pads/Stripy socks as smelly sweat :P I have lost 5cm from my thigh, 5cm from my belly, 5cm from my boobs and my butt has got super perky!

I love what derby does to me and for me and I love that I get to meet amazing people that I never would have known - soon from all over the world! (bring on Rollercon 2012!)

I want to gain more confidence in my weak little knees and be able to feel like I can trust my body to handle everything I'm throwing at it

There we go, thats me

So many cool people! Looking forward to talking to you all as we go!

I'm Neysa, and I've just (as in yesterday!) started fresh meat with Geelong Roller Derby League in Victoria, Australia. Glad I'm not the only Aussie here! *waves* I learnt to skate when I was a kid, and spent most of my school breaks on skates at my dad's local rink. I stopped skating when we moved on to a cattle station when I was a teen, and had just started skating again when in January 2009 I blew out my knee (not while skating). After two years of doctors and physios arguing over what I'd done (still no definitive diagnosis!), and the community rehab centre deciding that being able to walk was 'good enough', I cracked it and walked out. I found an amazing physiotherapist, and we began a hard 12 months of rehabilitation that saw me finally get back on skates in November just gone.

My main goal with the challenge is to get fit enough to pass skill assessment. Our fresh meat runs the same time as this challenge, and between the two, I'm hoping to be able to hit the 25-in-5 by late March. I don't want to lose any weight, I really just want to work on my fitness and endurance. I'm not following the meal plan because it doesn't fit at all with my nutrition ideals (some of you may have read the analysis I wrote of the program last week), so I've settled back into my normal diet, and am just keeping an eye on the alcohol.

Derby kind of runs in my blood, as my dad played back in the 70s. I love the community, the enthusiasm, and the athleticism that the new version of the sport brings to the table, though I think my family still remembers the glory days, and worries a tad. Thankfully they are hugely supportive, and my boyfriend deserves a medal, being not only a derby-widow, but a long-suffering PhD-widow as well! Outside of derby, I'm a PhD student in molecular biology and molecular nutrition, I help run an semi-active online roleplaying community, am a twitter addict (@andanin), and love spending time at the pub with my friends. Damn those delicious ciders!

Love and luck ladies!