Time flies... some pictures from the past and the more present

West Side Highway Summer 2010 with Loony

Playing with Rat City Summer 2009

Cherry poster Winter 2009 with Nasty Trick

Getting married in Vegas Summer 2008

Chilling in Seattle Fall 2006

Hanging with the Mother in China Fall 2005

Hugging the best friend Winter 2008

Hanging out with Linn Fall 2006

Most of Manhattan Mayhem creates mayhem

May I present my beloved home-team to you, we like to dress up, we like to skate, we like to kick ass... and we love each other...

Stress and congested lungs

Ahhh... ahhhhh... ahhhhhhhh... ahhhhh

at least I might have a buyer on my car

Damn... damn... damn...

Oh people... oh people
I am nervous
I am nervous
About life in general!
But I know I have amazing friends... and sometimes I have to remind myself that I do!!

the dead on the subway

Happy Halloween and thoughts on moving...

(Sunshine skate this, and now she is scared of me...)

I'm still feeling sick, but better, and Sunny and her girlfriend are here, and they are somewhat committed to the dressing up part... and I guess I could be buying into it, if I wasn't feeling so slow and tired... But you know, you cannot always be on top of it all.. But I guess I will take a shower and then maybe I will feel a little more up to it!

Listing to ''Hello Saferide'' and bopping my head... Malou found us a place in Copenhagen, so I guess it is really happening, I'm moving to Scandinavia... After seven years in US, I'm finally moving back to Europe, it is a really odd feeling. How will I really feel about it when I'm there, I don't know anyone in Copenhagen, really... except for Malou!

Hallooween special

(As someone said on Facebook... ''Chicks digs me'')

Yesterday was GGRD's last home-bouts for the season... Queens and Bronx fought hard and long about who would win the Championship... and Bronx came out as the winners.
Ahhh...

Me, Fisti, Razor and Pie were inpersonating the band Fornyx... Hopefully pictures of the entire band will come soon... but for now I only have the picture of me and Schnitt, who dropped out of the band to be a chicken.. does that mean she is chicken...?

Walking home from the afterparty took forever and we saw a girl get hit by a cab, it was really crazy... like really crazy... and getting a cab on the weekend of Halloween is just like getting a cab on new years eve.. totally impossible!

So I am not really a hypocondriac...

(This is how GGRD Allstars are getting ready for the WFTDA Championships)

I hate going to the doc, but since my lungs been hurting and it has been feeling like breathing thru a straw the past weeks, I finally did it... I guess it was good... She gave me antibiotics, told me to rest lots and drink fluids...
I had tons of water and four exciting beers at the Blind Tiger with one of the Stockholm Rollergirls... I acctually first took her to Five Stride and there I ran into some Gent Go-Go Girls too.. ah, Five Stride really is a worldly Derby Central...

I ended the night by falling asleep on TipHers bed, after trying her costumes on... I felt acomplished... Now I'll get some more rest by setting up for the GGRD Championships tonigh.. Bronx vs. Queens.... Suzy Hotrods last bout with Queens of Pain...

WFTDA Championships are ONE week away

Trying to sell my car, going to the doctor, missing my girlfriend, taking traintrips with Fisti Cuffs, carving pumpkins, skating, skating, skating, skating and some more skating.... yeah... that pretty much is my life right now.

On the note of getting fit

(and when I don't work-out, I breakdance at Five Stride)

Yesterday I was feeling like shit, but after spending some time at Five Stride with OMG I decided to go to practice anyway. It was fun, I am still breaking my new skates in, and it was a mellow practice to do that at.
We ended the practice by doing 300 crunches... with almost no rest inbwtween... oh yeah... sixpack here I come!! And when I say sixpack, I do not mean the kind you drink... I mean the one on the front of my body that is attached to the body...

OH YEAH!

Getting ready for WFTDA Championships...

(I really belive drinking mimosa makes you a better skater)

So after Saturday morning practice we ended up at mimosa central... aka FIVE STRIDE SKATE SHOP to be honest we brought the mimosas and OMG remounted my plates for me while watching Bonnie squeezing some girls feet... I mean... who does not want Bonnie Thunders Squeezing their feet... One of the Swedes that was visiting me last week got her feet fitted and squeezed by Bonnie... and now has a pair of amazing skates so she can kick ass with West Coast Bombshells... Yay for Swedish rollerderby... And this upcoming weekend, Stockholm Rollerderby, have their first bout against Hamburg (that's in Germany folks... )

Pain and Practice

(Yes, it's me and the famous Bonnie Thunders at Time Square... TOURISTING)

So my brother came and visited, he also drank all my protein powder, but he bought me a small protein powder shaker, since my herbalife one is in Sweden.... so I guess he is forgiven...
He left and now all I have left is a bunch of practices... and I am gonna make them count... I will.. Today was my last scrimmage with Manhattan Mayhem, it was really sad, adn I wanted to cry, I almost dis, I was gonna have a little speach... but it just were not to happen, since I would have cried like a child... and hardcore tough Swedes like me dont do that kind of thing! HA HA

I also had the great joy of being the bottom of a pileup, and the outcome was a a charlie horse leaving me limping like a dumb boy. Must say that was NOT the highlight of the night... land-drills today was held by my amazing captain Sweet Sherry Pie, and I have a feeling some of us will be hurting tomorrow... my horse Charlie will be the one hurting the most...

Tired but happy

My brother is here and we even bought matching t-shirts today. Yesterday we had morning practice and then we spent the day drinking mimosas at Five Stride... and then I lost my brother to the NYC nightlife...

Mayhem also won over Suburbia on October 9th

(Me jamming, Fisti, Tip and Thighs blocking, Photo by Tigoe)

It started kind of rocky, but then we kicked into gears and became a force to reckon and fear...

Tyra mail and Swedes...

So my Swedish friends were in town for a couple of days and piled up in my studio apartment... So six people in this small space, I guess Swedes can make it work, because we had a blast. Lately me and Loony been obsessed with Americas Next Top Model, and this showed when we all in a tipsy haze got wigs... We scared the general population of New York by screaming 'pose' 'pose' 'pose' on the subway, while snapping shot on our iPhones.. and when we reached my apartment the DRESS UP began...

They all ended up going out to the bars in their amazing wigs and outfits, I stayed home, I had travel-team practice Saturday morning.... things I do for roller-derby

The death of the counting days

(East Regionals, Gotham vs. Charm City photo by BrendanMc)

I keep on getting too busy to write on the blog, I continue to eat well and skate lots and lots... but when it comes down to it all... I just have been to lazy to keep track of my eating and my exercise. It feels like I'm always doing something and eating something.

Nationals just around the corner, and that makes me really happy... really... really happy... and nervous and excited! Well, YES I know it is not Nationals, it is WFTDA Championships, and Gotham is playing either Texas or Bay Area first... EARLY in the morning... yeah, our first bout is 9.30 in the morning or something crazy like that...

Day One - again

(Me and Loony)

I like starting over, it's like I have a clean slate to build from, but it is actually a stronger clean slate than my first day one... that was five month ago. I also like to have goals, and now it is to be in shape and all that for WFTDA Championships in Chicago.

Today me and Loony are going to MoMA for a more cultural aspect of our lives and then I guess we are heading for leauge practice, we are both still sore since Bonnie Thunders KICKED out ASSES on Monday... So we will look like two little gimps at the museum.

Let's start over again...

(Fisti looking at me jamming, photo by BrendanMc)

YOu guys know how I love to start the countdown over again, I have been busy the past days... so I haven't had time to write, and now I guess I am still busy, but I want to feel like it is a fresh new start... so let's count up to NATIONALS....

I am gonna work even harder on my endurance, Fisti has some weird thought about me jamming more, I think I will jsut go for runs more often. Men and Loony went for a morning jog yesterday, but I think she might have still been drunk, and I was hungover. Yeah, we went drinking in style after BAD beat Denver during Western Regionals...

Good times, good times... what can I say... Now I'm going to cut Loonys hair... (she is mad I call her by her real name all the time, so I am trying to call her by her derbyname more often)

Day TwentyNine

(If I look like this at you during a bout, you should be concerned, photo by ManDash)

First practice back after Regionals, it is always a couple of minutes to adjust playing with some skaters to skate against them on home-teams...

Malooney is in town and had the pleasure to skate against me and with Bronx...

After practice we had some beers and Malooney cut Bunny's hair, and it was a good ol' time...

Workout: Went for a walk with the girlfriend
Derby: Manhattan Mayhem practice - Scrimmage against Bronx

Breakfast: Coffee with milk
Lunch: Pad Sew and some curry with rice
Snack: Bubble Tea and some Swedish Candy
Dinner: Thai Gyoza from Trader Joes
Snack: 1 Bud Light Lime, some ricecakes and babamel cheese... on the subway home

Day TwentySix to TwentyEight

WE DID IT!

EASTERN CHAMPIONS 2010

Day TwentySix

First day of Eastern Regionals... my second Regional Tournament, last year I skated Western Regionals with Rat City.
Today we skated against Providence, I jammed, it was fun, jamming does hurt my back slightly... it cramps up a little so afterward Malou helped me streach it out... Ugh!

I was really nervous in the morning, so I had a really hard time eating, it's like I am forcing food down, but it doesn't taste like anything. I made a really delicious frittatta and I was not having it!

When i got to Kandy Kakes house, I ended up going for a bagel with walnut cream cheese, and that I could eat!

Day TwentyFive

(me representing Stockholm Roller Derby)

I am totally carb-loading for Eastern Regionals...

AND my fantastic girlfriend came into town!

Day TwentyFour

(Resting while teaching Taylor mad skating skills)

So tomorrow and then R-day, as in Regionals... Ah, dear friends and random people that read this blog, this is my second Regionals, and I am not as nervous this year, I have worked really hard and developed as a skater. But so has everyone else too... And I like that, I actually love that about derby, that each season something brand new comes up... we play a sport that is developing increadably fast, and it is really exciting!

Workout: Went skating with Taylor, about 4o min trailskating and then I taught her a bunch of drills, for about and hour.
And i did 30 push ups all in a row... and 100 situps and 2x1min planks
Derby: Last practice before Regionals

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and a protein shake with Orange juice
Lunch: Udon Noodles with Tempura
Snack: A tiny bag of Skittles and some crackers from Trader Joes
Dinner: Pasta with green peas and tuna
Snack: 2 bottles of Zico coconut water

Day TwentyThree

Regionals is creeping closer and closer... I cannot wait for it to come around! Talked to Malou today, and it is hard to have someone you love so far away from you.

I start to feel better when I upped my protein intake again, it makes me recover much faster! I have to remember not to cheat myself and forget to make sure to have a proper intake of protein. I was feeling really really beat up the last week, but as soon as I started to make sure I was having more protein it made me feel better!

Workout: 55 push-ups and 100 sit-ups and 3 x 1 min plank and 3 x 30 sec plank each side
Derby: No derby today

Breakfast: Coffee with milk
Lunch: Homemade Frittata with sausage, mushrooms and onion
Snack: Pita Chips, pita chips and those DARN pita chips (some one stops me?) and some carrots
Dinner: Went to Balue Ganz with Trish and had some nice fish and a soft prezel... It was real yummy!
Snack: Some carrots and bread

Day TwentyTwo

(Me when I JUST started derby in November 2007)

It is really funny to see old pictures of me playing derby, and this picture is probably one of the first, this is right when I started Jet City's boot camp... that we named Booty Camp... This is where I learned to skate and when Jet City had try-outs in December 2007 I was picked up by Camaro Harem...
I remember my first scrimmage... and it was nerve-wrecking and I had to jam, and I thought I was gonna die... It was January 10th 2008 (that's my birthday folks)...

Time flies... time flies... who would have known?

My Jet City Booty Camp generated a few real good ladies that are still around, there was my fellow Amazon CheerBleedHer who moved to San Diego, my beloved derbywife Colt 45 who now plays for the HOnkey Tonkey Heartbreakers in Austin, Texas, there was Mona Agony who now is a Rat City Allstar and there was Missus Unshine who is an amazing Jet City Bomber and one of the reasons Jet City are going to Western Regionals this year...

Workout: Walked from TriBeCa to LES and back
50 push-ups and 60 sit-ups and 1 min plank and 30 sec plank each side
Derby: 2 hour of leauge and then 1 hour of travel team

Breakfast: Coffee with milk
Lunch: Oh, oh, oh this LUNCH was OUT of HANDS... We just NEVER stopped eating... we went to Clinton Street Baking Co. It was just AMAZING... but I have to admit, I might have over eaten... But if you don't have breakfast and then walk for 30 min, and then there is a 30 min wait... you are bound to eat... aggressively..
So I had the Southern Breakfast, with a buisquit on the side, and then me and Trish shared the banana/walnut pancakes with maple butter... (we did not manage to finish those)
Dinner: Tuna, mushrooms, olive oil, marinara sauce, onion with pasta... homemade by moi...
Snack: 2 bottles of Zinco coconut water...

Day TwentyOne - Skater Profile on Gotham Girls Roller Derby . com

(I love how Snap is looking at me... she is sort of 'Swede, you better pull that off')

Read more about me...
Skater Profile: Swede Hurt of Manhattan Mayhem


Workout: Walk, walk, walk like always.... walking
Derby: None of that today... this is the TRUE resting day

Breakfast: Coffee with milk
Lunch: Homemade Grilled Pizza with arugula, speck, bresola, gorgonzola and soem chocolate Stout
Snack: Some water melon slices
Dinner: A piece of bread with Olive oil, Salad with some pecorino and walnuts, a chocolate tartouffe at Lupa with a glass of red wine.
Snack: a few Brazil Nuts

Day Twenty

(Hm... hm... I think the makeup artist was thinking Lady GaGa or something)

Yesterday was a loooooong day... like craaazy loooong... We did a fun event with Etsy, modeling some local designers, ON skates.... and that was fun, even if it was alot of sit around waiting... After that I went to Bark with Lady Fingers and had some veggie hotdogs. After some beer and a good amount of talking we went into Babeland for a hot min, without making to much fools of ourselves, and then we headed to Snap and Hambones housewarming party.
Fisti was as always feisty and wanted to play hte punching game, but before that happened, I think we watched every game the Allstars played this seson. Yeah... and then I think I might have drank a bunch of beer, while doing it.... MmmMMmmmm...
After having some drunkan strategy conversations and watched Fisti get hit by a very big guy and feeding lots af scraps into a fire I got a ride to the subway and could start trekking towards TriBeCa... home sweet home...
BUT at home roomie was DRUNKER than me, together with a friend... and could not find her glasses, she did find her glasses, she fled the scene and I passed out...

Workout: A one hour walk
Derby: HA ha ha ha... I did a 15 min fashion show on skates... is that derby?

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and a Bagel with strawberry cream cheese
Lunch: 2 veggie dogs at Bark and two beers
Snack: A bunch chips with salsa
Dinner: A small hamburger from a happy cow and a spicy sausage, a glass of sangria and probably about 6-7 beers
Snack: two of Ginger Snaps homemade bacon cupcakes with some amazing frosting

Day Nineteen

(Ah... I knooooow... I just had to take a photo, I'm just like everyone else)

I went wandering the streets of NYC, I had lunch with my oldest brother, it is comforting to have such a great family... and then I wandered some more... went home to and then I headed to Queens and relayed the floor of the Crash Pad... It was supposed to take about three hours, I think it took a little over 5... but such is life.. unexpected things happen... and I guess I ended up slightly intoxicated and not as poor as I would have if I actually would have headed out into town as the plan was...

Workout: A two hour walk, in a quite brisk pace...
Derby: Does ripping up sportscourt and laying it down count??

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and a Vanilla Herbalife Shake with orange juice
Lunch: Chirashi with my brother... mmmm the fish was great
Snack: A bunch of cheese with grapes
Dinner: Slice of pizza and 4 Budweisers....
Snack: a Zinco coconut water

Day Eighteen

Last travel team practice before regionals, body beat, but I think the protein shakes are gonna work out well for me. My legs seem to get the ''pepp, pepp, pepp'' back... I have a hard time balancing my diet at times... forgetting the recovery protein... NO GOOD!

I love derby, it is the greatest sport that has ever been invented, it is hard work, but I feel like I belong...

Workout: 40 pushups, 2min wall-sits, 2 min plank some ladder drills... yeah... it was all 30min land-drills
Derby: 2 hours of Allstar-practice

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and a Vanilla Herbalife Shake with orange juice
Lunch: Sushi Dragon Roll with Green Apple Bubble Tea
Snack: A tofu/spinace sandwichy thingy and a AppleCider Ginger drink
Dinner: 2 Corn on the cob and some pita chips (seriously, crack it is) and a glass of my favorite beer
Snack: Vanilla Herbalife Shake with orange juice and a Zinco coconut water

Day Seventeen

(my motivation to stay fit and a great derby player; this lady, who would not wanna impress her?? This is at the Black and Bue ball at RollerCon)

Some days I hate jamming, and I guess today was one of those, when you bit your lip not to cry, I guess two hours of practice and then scrimmage is not ideal... But sometimes that might be a reality, two games on a row... and it is just practice... that's all I can think... and then I have to bite hard an push it harder... and legs feel like chewing gum... yeah... I acctually figured I need to really up it on the protein shakes, I think I recover to slow because I stopped drinking my shakes after practice...

And also... if you wanna see real cool jewlery... you should check my team-mates stuff out...

Workout: 40 pushups and 30 situps, 1 min plank
Derby: 2 hour leauge practice and 1 hour scrimmage AllStars vs. Traitors

Breakfast: Coffee with milk... like tow of them
Lunch: Potato hash with basil, tomato mushroms and broccoli, with Arugula-bacon salad
Snack: banana and chocolate milk
Dinner: Spinach pasta with bacon, an egg, and some basil... lots of pepper and salt... YUMMY and real simple...
Snack: A cup of hot chocolate, no sugar

Day sixteen

(Getting ready for Regionals... )

So today no practice since our beloved captain turned older.... oh she did... and we went of cocktails instead...

Workout: 30 pushups and 60 situps
Derby: Nope, because we have today off...

Breakfast: Vanilla Herbalife Shake with orange juice
Lunch: Tom Yum Soup and Paneng Curry with TOfu
Snack: Pita Chips... lot's and lots (they are like CRACK), a few raw mushrooms and some broccoli
Dinner: Israeli Cous Cous with stirfried broccoli, homegrown tomatoes (courtesy of OMG and Bonnie), zuccini, onion and mushrooms, basil and arugula, just with some olive oil, pepper and salt!
Snack: Two yummy drinks, because it is Pie's Birfday!

Day Fifteen

(I'm about to lay OMG out, therefore I lick my lips)

After practice I went and hung out with OMG and had a grand ol' beer and talked shit like only we can do, OMG made amazing goodness for me to eat while we waited for Bonnie to coem back from a meeting at the practice space... and then we all talked about roller-derby... what else is there! ??

Workout: 15 push ups and 30 sit ups
Derby: 2 hour leauge practice, with focus on skating backwards, sideways and streching...

Breakfast: 2 egg frittata with mushrooms and potatoes and coffee with whole milk
Lunch: Greek yoghurt with honey and a Weetabix
Snack: Pita Chips... lot's and lots
Dinner: Tacos with vegetarian chorizo chili
Snack: Salsa and chips, honeydew melon

Day Fourteen - hung over day

(photo by Chris Chin)

There is always bout day, and then there is hung over day... yeah... oh the pain of waking up with your scrimmage shirt the wrong way (I have Swede Hurt 46 over my chest right now), a hurting head, a few bruises and a feeling of that you should eat something healthy and all you crave is deep, deep friend... (I am lying on the deep fried, I am mostly longing for someone to just serve me food)

But I guess I will make some coffee and the day can begin... No practice today, but I am thinking about going downstairs later today and do some arm exercises... Oh yeah... that might be good...

Day Thirteen - BOUT DAY

Today my hometeam Manhattan Mayhem is playing Brooklyn Bombshells, and it will be fun...

Day Twelve

(I cut my hair yesterday...)

So today I went to the Swedish Consulate and voted, and I felt good about myself, I did what every person in a Democracy has a legal right to do, I casted a vote. I have never missed an election since I turned 18 and been eligable to vote.

I spent the earlier hour with teaching my friend Taylor some basic skills, mostly just skating, but explained a little to her about derby. She is looking amazing, and I am really hoping she is going to try out for GGRD this fall...

I'm totally carb-loading today, and it is yummy... and I might be a little crazy about food... but food is soo good right now... I don't know why I am so hungry, but I am eating and eating...

Workout: Skating Central Park with Taylor
Derby: NO... we have a bout tomorrow and I am ''resting''

Breakfast: Herbalife Vanilla Shake with Mandarin Juice
Lunch: Pasta with olive oil and shrimps... it was AMAZINGLY great
Snack: Pasta Carbonara and a BIG glass of milk
Dinner: Tofu Satay with Peanut sauce, tom yum soup and sticky rice with mango for desert
Snack: Pices of chocolate with rasberries

Day Eleven

I started the day with a nice outdoor skate with my team-mate Tip-Her Gore, just a mellow skate along the water, in a actually decent NYC weather, not too hot and not to cold... Almost like a Scandinavian summer...

I have started my carbloading for Saturdays game... mmmm...

Workout: General body workout 30 min, skated west side Highway 1 hour
Derby: Travel-team 2 hours

Breakfast: 12 oz Jamba Juice Bright Eye Blueberry with an energy boost
Lunch: 3 Egg omelette with bacon, marinara sauce and some white rice
Snack: Glass of Mandarin Juice, 4 ricecakes
Dinner: Pasta Carbonara (pasta, bacon and an egg yolk)
Snack: pita chips and half a package of reeses pieces

Day Ten

I was planning on going rollerskating outdoors really early today, but I was just beat... my entire body is hurting and I really need to get my neck adjusted. Actually today is one of those days I just feel like I should request a new body, but I guess those are not for sale... Bummer... I could have done an investment like this today.

I am a little homesick for good ol' Stockholm today, tomorrow is my best friends birthday, and since my step grandfather just past away, I feel like I should be with my family. I of course also miss my girl in Copenhagen, I woke up this morning to the sweetest text messages ever.

I am not going to practice today, we have a bout on Saturday, and I have to talk myself down from the four days of practice in a row mentality. I want to go, but sometimes I have to say NO, my body needs a little recovery time, so I can get stronger. But I am probably meeting up with Em Dash and Thighs to get some outdoor skating in later tonight...

Workout: I went for a short walk... but nothing big...
Derby: NO... I am saying NO!! (but just for today)

Breakfast: Cacao with milk, three cups
Lunch: Sushi, 8 pieces
Snack: pita chips about 10 pieces
Dinner: Pasta with tuna and marinara sauce
Snack: Swedish liquirice that we like to call Turkish Pepper

Day Nine

(Me and Crazy Criz at Copenhagen Pride a couple of weeks ago... she also writes a fitness blogg, but she does it on facebook, or I'd link you in. She is also one of my best friends derby wife)

I spent the majority of the day hanging out with Unshine from Jet City Rollergirls, she is my old teammate, we even tried out for Jet City together. I'm really proud over Jet City that has qualified for Western Regionals this year. Me and Unshine just spent time walking down Broadway and browsing the cheap stores... helping the American economy out a little... what else is there??
We went for lunch and then shopped, but I really didn't shop... I found a little trinket for my Danish lady and some earrings for myself to bout in on Saturday... and then I had to head home to get ready for practice.

Workout: My usual upper-body routine with some core 30 min
Derby: Manhattan Mayhem practice - 2 hours

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and A really amazing sandwich at Snack, tuna and roasted vegebles... YUMMY!
Lunch: A dragon sushi roll with some lime lemonade
Snack: An iced coffee with whole milk an a shortbread cookie
Dinner: Amys Vegetarian Chilli with some pasta
Snack: Coconut water

Day Eight

(it's for her and myself I will get more fit, i have to beat her in wrestling)

Manhattan Mayhem scrimmage against Queens went very well, I jammed some and blocked some, in the end I was in four jams in a row and ended up putting myself in the box. Not cool, I am working hard to get my penalties under control. It is so imortant to play clean, you are not helping your team at all if you are sitting in the box, or if you are at three minors, when your team really needs you to jam. So I really have to get out of the habit of being OK with cutting hte track minors, because they DO acumilate, and all of a sudden I'm that DAMNED jammer who cannot jam or has to poodle, not good!
Considering I spent nine hours on a flight I thought I did a really good job, I for sure have my feet under me, and so does my team seem to have. There are only five days to our bout against Brooklyn, and I feel really confident. I love Manhattan Mayhem, there is so much spirit and laughing... and of course the orange...

But... OHHH... what undies to wear... what undies to wear.... (boutfit anxiety)

Workout: Off-skates work-out for 30 min
Derby: 30 min scrimmage with Manhattan Mayhem and then 45 min practice with the Allstars

Breakfast: Coffee with milk, Greek yohurt with muesli and berries
Lunch: Sandwich with cheese
Snack: A tin of tuna with green peas, veganaise and mustard
Dinner: A ''crazy roll'' of sushi
Snack: A fruit, 15 saltines and a glass of wine before bed

Day Seven

(Hm, when I said we cooked, I meant Malou cooked and I looked adoringly at her)

Sometimes just spending time with the person you love is awesome, and today was one of those days, we just layed around, went for a walk, made food together and then went for another walk. A bunch of guys felt it was really important to them to call out ''Lesbians, Lesbians'' after us... very mature...

Workout: I went for a walk with my hot girl for about and hour... the rest of the day I spent in bed...

Breakfast: Coffee with milk, greek yohurt with muesli and berries
Lunch: 4 Swedish Pancakes with oats served with ice-cream and ruhbarb jam
Snack: 8 pieces of black salty liqirioce and some roasted corn snacks
Dinner: Shared 16 pieces of mixed sushi with Malou

Day Six

(I'm helping out reffing Copenhagen and some Crime City Girls)

Skating with a bunch of girl in the sun, there was fall in the air and I could hold my love in her hand... Life was really good... I smiled and I skated in my new blue and yellow skates! It's about time I really break them in....

I also found out that my step Grandpa passed away, it is sad, not unexpected, but that still does not make the sadness any less.

Later we got drunk and played Fisti Cuffs favorite drinking game... it's called the punching game... and you just punch each other... Yepp, I knooow it is completly pointless... and now I have introduced it to Copenhagen... I bet they will thank me... NOT

Workout: REFFING... I was REFFING... and skating... it was fun and mellow for 3-4 hours.
We also did some planks, push-ups and sit-ups

Breakfast: Coffee with milk, greek yoghurt with Muesli and berries
Lunch: Salad with rice
Dinner:Vegetarian Buffee and probably 8 beers

Day Five

(me and Jalapeno Business ready to go. photo by Jules Doyle)

I cannot lie, I really love food, food in all sorts, I am always up for eating, and it makes me happy that I do work out as much as I do, so I can eat more freely than someone that doesn't work out...

I really try to avoid fried food, mostly because I don't like the taste of it, and most of it I don't feel the sluggishness of my body that follows it. I am also not that big on chips, I mostly munch on rice-cakes or pita chips when i need something crunchy and salty...

I am also very concerned about under-eating, I see it often in girls that are concerned about their weight, and instead of eating something nutritional, they will hesitate to eat anything... Rather have a little more food and work out a little harder. If your body craves something, give it something. You are not supposed to walk around starving, and if you are starving your body will react to as if you were starving and it will stop burning calories and instead perserve... and you get the opposite effect of what you wanted... NOT so smart!

Workout: 1 hour stroll skating along West Side Highway, 120 sit-ups, 20 squats, 20 push-ups

Breakfast: Coffee with milk, whole wheat bagel with maple and walnut schmeer...
Lunch: Cous-Cous and some tuna
Snack: Ginger root drink... yummy, Herbalife vanilla shake with orange juice... YUMMY
Dinner: Hamburger with mushrooms, no cheese, no 'magic' sauce and no fries...

Day Four

(Me jamming in Portland, photo by Masonite Burn)

Today I sorted some emails out and ended up spending over 3 hours on Skype with the loved one in Denamrk. I still have not gone out running, it is hard, I really do not like running, and it is sooo hard to motivate yourself to do it... but I am working on it, I am working on it.

I am so excited to be a part of Gothams Allstars, it is such a mellow but hardworking bunch of girls... I love going to practice!

Derby: 2 hours of Travel Team practice
Workout: 30 min off-skates

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and a vanilla herbalife shake with orange juice
Lunch: A dragon roll and a thai iced tea
Snack: Cocunut Water and a mango
Dinner: Tuna with some veganaise, mustard and green peas, served with half a serving of couscous.

Day Three

So now it's a little over three months since me and my lady met for the first time, and it has been three amazing months, even if it is hard to be in love with someone that resides thousands of miles away.
We talk over Skype, send love letters (mostly me) and text each other on a daily basis. I am always so taken aback that I have met someone so fun, sweet, attractive, sensative, athletic, funny, handy, intelligent and amazing... that is just as into me as I am into her...
I just wanted to mention that, because she inspires me to be a better person, to work a little harder... oh and because she is currently, yeah CURRENTLY stronger than me... (excuse me, but I am gonna go pump some iron now)


My hip is out of alignment and it pinches a nerve in my back, so it hurts to skate the opposite direction (but who needs to turn right anyway except from Zoolander). But I guess people have worse problems with their bodies than that.


Derby: 40min scrimmage with Manhattan Mayhem
Workout: 20 push ups and 120 sit ups

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and 2% Greek Yogurt with honey and shredded wheat, some Mango slices
Lunch: 2 rice cakes and a mango
Snack: pomegranate juice with selzer water
Dinner: ribs and edamame

This is what roller-derby does to you (no bruises this time)

(Me and girlfriend Mad Maloony in the Copenhagen Pride Parade)

Day Two

(Hanging out at Rockaway Beach)

Today was a good day, I went to Rockaway Beach with an old friend from High School in Sweden, we got off at the wrong subway stop and ended up going for a 30 min long walk on the boardwalk, it was good times. We played some in the waves, chatted and I got a nice tan... Now it's only 11 days until Manhattan plays Broklyn... so I need to start running... I HATE RUNNING... but it is goooood for me, I have to keep on telling myself that it is good for me!

Derby: Two hours of Manhattan Mayhem Practice
Workout: 20 push ups and 60 situps and a 30 min walk along the beach

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and 2% Greek Yogurt with honey and shredded wheat
Lunch: 2 Chorizo soft tacos at this little local place at Rockaway Beach
Snack: Half a mango and some pineapple slices
Dinner: Spare Ribs with some white rice

Day One

(Me and Malooney running practice for Crime City Rollers - Malmö Roller Derby)

My goal is to try to drink more water, maybe to also get out of bed and do 20 push-ups and 120 sit-ups every morning... I think that would be really good for my charachter... and wake me up and get me out and about, instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself because my girlfriend is on the other side of the planet. I guess we cannot have everything here in life... but I mean, we might aswell try... right?

Derby: Three hours
Workout: 20 push ups and 120 sit ups

Breakfast: Coffee with milk and Herbalife vitamins and some sweet sticky rice with half a mango
Lunch: Pad Sew Yu that was over from the previous nights dinner
Snack: Corn on the Cob with lots and lots of salt
Dinner: TBA
Snack: TBA

Ok, so here we go again...

(Me with some girls from Copenhagen Roller Derby and Malmo Roller Derby at Copenhagen Pride representing Vagine Regime Nordic)

Hometown Throwdown in Portland was a success and I got to both jam and block, had some penalty problems... I have to clean myself up.. more than a shower will do... So from today I am also starting to work on that... Damn me!
So I went to Denmark and Sweden and then I went camping with Manhattan Mayhem upstate New York... Kayaking was superfun and I now have a blister in my hand... I was really jetlagged so I kept on falling asleep by the campfire... I think it entertained one or two people!
So I have a bout in 11 days and then Regionals in 26 days... So here is my own 26 days of shaping myself up a little more... nudging myself towards the goal I have to be better and better...

Da Capo, Da Capo

(Playin on Freemont Street in Vegas with the Bimbos)

I'm making myself do another SIX WEEKS of getting more fit, Eastern Regionals is just around the corner, and I want to be all ready to be on the top of my game for that. The past two weeks I have slacked off a little, not worse than I still play top level derby, but more than I usually let myself.

My girlfriend was here for two weeks and we went to Vegas... we did lots and lots of walking, but I did ignore the gym more than I wish to do, so I'm back on track friends... I am back on track...

RollerCon was fun, I did three scrimmages, hung out by the pool, walked the strip, went to the black and blue ball, made out with my girl, judged the VR Scavanger Hunt, olayed with unicorns, hung out to little with Krissy Krash, had gross greasy drunk food, saw a bunch of other friends,met some puter writers from LDG got a photo of me and the Suzy Hotrod cut-out for the video game , played with Wicked Stickers... yeah, you know the whole deal... Oh and I wore cut-off jeaggins almost every day....

And RollerCon came and went...

(My wonderful girlfriend made me an outfit for the black and blue ball)