Roller Derby practice is normally on a Saturday afternoon, this means I like to keep Friday nights a *little* restrained so I can actually function on Saturday. This week the session was moved to later, so we didn’t start till 7:30pm and finished at 10. Well, the evil little part of my brain thought, “surely

So lets chalk today down as an active rest day shall we? I had vaguely thought I might go for a little run, but as I had to wait in for a parcel I thought maybe a spot of yoga to loosen up my back and hips was a nice idea. Yes, that’s right, I’ve

I love having a blog, I can witter on about my random injuries as much as I like and no one can stop me, muhahahahahahahah! Anyway, now I’ve finished evil laughing you’ll all be fascinated to know that I tried a new tactic with my persistent bum ache today. Instead of aggressively foam rollering and

Well it’s week 3 of Janathon and I only have to find one more interesting way of working the word circuits into a title next Wednesday. Yes, today was circuits in the dark day at Style Health & Fitness with the Norfolk Brawds. I ran the first mile of the way there, then walked the

Well hello end of day 20! Today I did not one, but 2 chunks of exercise, but neither of them were running. Dr Google advises me that this persistent pain in the butt may be down to my piriformis acting up, it certainly fits all the symptoms. So I decided a bit of yoga was

Well technically it’s day 20 as it’s past midnight, but as my website was down when I tried to write it up earlier on I think I shall let myself off! Today I ordered a spiky ball to roll my butt muscles, because a girl can never have too many weird sporting torture devices and

It being Sunday again means it’s lifting heavy stuff day at Style Health & Fitness with the Norfolk Brawds, I’d also planned to go for a run with my husband afterwards, so was hoping to avoid the 2 mile walk to the gym and blag a lift off someone. Unfortunately I am a terrible blagger,

You’ll be pleased to know that my pain in the bum has subsided slightly after taking yesterday off and about 20 minutes with my foam roller this morning,the right buttock, however, has decided it wants in on the action too and is now also aching. Still I prefer to ache symmetrically, at least that means

Swimming is harder than it looks apparently and now I have a pain the butt. (Note, I AM a pain in the butt, but this is a pain in my actual butt.) When I got home Wednesday night I had an achey crampy pain in my left buttock, which I got the foam roller on