If you describe yourself as an ambitious, fit athlete with a hunger to win, you could be our woman! The Australian Women’s Bobsleigh team is currently looking for new recruits! After competing at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, team Pilot Astrid Loch-Wilkinson needs new recruits as brakewomen, to compete in Europe and North America, towards the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Astrid will be hosting a series of ‘open days’ to recruit for the vital role of ‘breakwoman’ to help push the team to Olympic glory. The brakewomen plays a major role in the initial push of the bobsleigh, reaching speeds of 40km/h before jumping onboard the sleigh. The success of the run depends on the success of the push and seconds gained at the top can equate to podium finishes at the bottom.

This week’s 52 Week Challenge was race walking. I’m very glad to have tried it because it is one of those things that I have always seen on TV during the Olympics and never really understood. I can tell you now that there is not much similarity between layperson walking and race walking! My ‘coach’ was a friend Belinda (another ex-lawyer!) who used to compete.

              
 

If you’ve ever been pregnant you know too well the ridiculous situations you find yourself in, whether it’s bending down to pick up a tired toddler or trying to paint your toes. So to imagine contorting your pregnant self into impossible yoga poses might be a bit of a stretch! But if you can get your head (and your body) around it, could yoga mean a smooth pregnancy and natural childbirth? According to some professionals and mothers who have first-hand experience, the answer is yes…with exceptions.

Last weekend I watched "Whip It", a movie about roller derby starring Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page. I'd also seen a few roller derby clubs on twitter. So I decided to get and touch and find out what it's all about!

My first step was making contact with a club on Twitter @bcr_rollerderby (turns out the lady I was tweeting with goes by the name of "Zombietron"). So Zombietron passed on my query to the Brisbane City Rollers Secretary "Hit N Run". This was feeling just like the movie!