Endless running

Friday 8th February: another sprinting session with doc. From the try line to the 22. Endless running - sorry sprinting. Legs felt like lead and it was cold and wet yet again. Dot got a rather painful muscle cramp and doc had to attend to her so that gave us a much needed breather. His medical duties done and Dot resting, he got us sprinting between the try line and the 5. During one of the 10 second breaks Mutaks and doc had a tete a tete then doc informed us he had 10 minutes left with us before Mutaks took over. "We'll do a bit of upper body strength to wrap up." he says. "But first, on my whistle sprint to the opposite try line and back within 40 seconds. We all went flat out (Dot included) and made it back in time. We were all rather pleased with ourselves and doc re enforced that feeling when he announced "Girls, you were great. At this rate you soon won't be needing me any longer." Then he added, "Ok, back on the line. You're going back. You have 4 more to go." I almost collapsed! Feeble gasps of protests came from girls' mouths but their was not enough breath in our lungs to voice our complaints audibly. All the same we got ourselves onto the try line. We did 4 more with 10 second breaks in between. A short stretch later we paired up and did fireman's lifts. Stesh (in photo) ended up with Christine!!! She was not very successful.

We were pretty thankful when Mutaks took over. We worked on our defence pattern. After a couple of false starts we got the hang of what he wanted. Sort of. Lots of room for improvement though. "We'll have a game tomorrow." says he. "Try apply what we've gone through in the game."

End of session. Girls complained that my blog profile was in French. I've tried to sort it out. Charlotte keeps promising to do something outlandish in training so she appears on the blog in style ...