Well, in this one - I don't exactly have to prep anything; mainly because she doesn't know T1, and decided to not go with that ruleset. 

She, as Skally has said, should have ambushed me. Presumably from the early goings of the match, instead of being fancy with her roll, and jump up to the lights; that allowed me to set the pace.

Last thing you ever want to do is let someone else set the pace in a fight, in the Arena. 

Though now, I've backed myself into a proverbial corner though, so I need to do some thinking to get out of the 'back against the wall' scenario.