#derbysavedmysoul

Last night, I played in my first bout in around 3 years. I was so nervous ahead of time and was freaking out mentally about the pressure of having to live up to my performance in the past. I am older and I have more fear now, which really does make a huge difference in how you play this sport.

After practicing for almost three months, I am a lot more confident in my abilities than I was when I first came back, but this new style of derby play (the very heavy defense and slower packs) presents a lot of challenges for jammers. Looking at the scoreboard from last night, the bout was clearly a bit of a blowout, and yet I got more beat up than I can ever remember being, and that was even with the coaches only using me sparingly, whereas I am used to only sitting out for one lineup. I felt kind of like shit and I felt like derby was HARD, much harder than I remembered it ever being.

AVON Representative VIRIDIANA RAMIREZ serving the Irving, TX area