labour pains

monday 25 feb: blazing hot day. beautiful. we warmed up with fijian touch. at first we were a bit careful and played while trying to conserve our energy cos we knew it was a fitness session but as we got into the mix we threw our cares aside and everyone gave 100%. the game was fast paced and we soon passed the warm stage and we were just hot! after a couple of thundering runs and some deft sidesteps yogi developed a stitch that had her complaining that it felt like labour pains. ouch!!! we had a brief injury scare as christine seemingly twisted her ankle as she tried to grab a sidestepping dot. it turned out to be a false alarm and although limping she was soon good to go. still no sign of doc and we were literally cheering: no torturous workout.

we worked on kickoffs and just as we had started scrum downs mutaks jogs in. “i’m late” he apologised “but let’s go.” so much for our premature celebrations at doc’s absence. lungs in our feet we followed him jogging to the lugogo hill. asha (in photo) had conveniently carried boots only so she remained behind. we paired up speed/size wise and sprinted up the hill and walked back down. christine, yogi and fortunate were together and it was great to see them moving up that hill all the while pushing each other to the limit. christine seemed to have miraculously recovered from her earlier ankle injury and yogi’s “labour pains” did not seem to be bothering her anymore.

this time round our drama queen, charlotte, was the victim of dizziness. she swayed off to the roadside and collapsed in a heap and spent the rest of the session trying to straighten out her world (ha!! so much for dodging monday's lectures) as we huffed and puffed our way through our sprints. at one point mutaks had hadijah and i chasing after a car that was going up the hill!! unrealistic you think? no!! just shows how much confidence he has in our abilities. well we didn’t catch the car – we would have but it accelerated just as our fingertips we were about to touch it’s bumper … after 7 sprints, just as i was getting into the rhythm, mutaks called a halt and decreased the distance we had to sprint. not much relief cos the sprints were continuous. sprint up, jog down then sprint up again etc. i’m not sure how long we did that for but i think it was 7 minutes. everything is done in terms of one 7’s half. sprints done we jogged back to kyadondo and without giving us time to catch our breaths mutaks made us do 45 situps, 30 pressups, 10 bupees. situps and bupees i struggled to get them done, pressups … enough said!