It was great skating around in the rink, but pretty soon after I got there, a lot of kids showed up, and I couldnt really skate fast or anything like that. But I started helping this little boy that was on skates for the first time, and skated backwards the whole time, so it ended up still being a good practice! :)
Today I went to Lawton Oklahoma, to skate with Lawton Roller Girls - 580 Roller girls.
No you have to understand, it's hot in Texas and Oklahoma, like 100/105, which is around 40/45 degrees celsius!! In Holland it will get up to 30 degrees every once and a while! So you can understand that for me, coming from Holland, I was NOT used to this heat.
And after the warm up drill I almost passed out. Everything was turning black in front of my eyes and I was feeling sick. I sat down and one of the girls made sure that I got a ice pack to cool down and gave me a drink. By that time I all ready drunk about 3 liters of water. But I was losing more fluids sweating then I could drink water.
About 20 min after I felt like passing out, I was able to get back on the track and continue skating. I was happy I was able to, cause I was afraid I was going to have to stop totally, and that would have really sucked.
The Lawton Roller girls are super awesome sweet girls!! I cannot wait to get out there again next week and skate with them.
I was a great lesson today, hydration is not a thing to take for granted!!!
Now I need to get some sleep, cause tomorrow I am off to Austin to go to the Austin vs Denver bout on saturday. I cannot wait. This trip is just amazing!! :)
oooh Austin vs. Denver! How cool is that! I'm so happy for you, girl! Remember to drink the water 1 day before the practice, it helps :) and drink salty water if you can (soda?).. muchos love from Finland!
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