murder

Saturday 16th Feb: the early worms started off with a hand/eye/reflexes/coordination game. ann and aalia were soooooooo uncoordinated that they had us all in stitches. the rest of us were pretty good at it though. then as the rest of the team joined us at 1.30 we split into red and yellows and switched to fijian touch. fijian touch is great way to work on quick recovery in defence and played in the early afternoon heat it gets you warm in about 30 seconds. doc came in and switched us to a game that would help us in support each other in attack. in defence we had to ‘hold’ (in between tackle and touch) the ball carrier and before an individual was allowed to score her entire team had to be within the 22. getting used to the new rules was confusing at first: the yellows set up charlotte to break through the reds and she dived over the try line BUT she had forgotten her team mates behind. most of them were lounging outside the 22, hands on their hips, cheering her on as she scored. classic! doc disallowed the try and it was a turn over for the reds. we all soon got the hang of the game and both teams were within the 22 when it came to try time. both teams worked hard at getting the defence sorted and it started to pay off. i hope we keep on that trend. we had a water break at 2.30ish then changed ends. at 2.45 when we were all well and truly tired and our tongues sticking to the roofs of our mouths doc stopped the game and we thought we were done for the day. “not so fast girls” says he. “everyone on the try line. a bit of fitness now. 5 metre shuttle runs for 2 minutes ... sprinting.” he can’t be serious! fortunate (in photo), aalia and ann looked like murder was on their minds but i guess they reconsidered after thinking they still had their prime years ahead of them. we painfully did two sets of the shuttles and doc was quite pleased with our effort. that done we did pushups and sit-ups and then thankfully wound up with a stretch.