hosts

wednesday 12 march: very long day at work so i got to training very late. i found the team doing defence - attack drills. i joined right in. the defence was looking good. the tackles solid and defenders working together all the time. attackers were hard pressed to get through. we wound up with 5 metre shuttle sprints for 2 minutes. then our usual: this time it was 45 pressups, 45 situps and bridge to the count of 60. we split the pressups into 2 sets: the first set was 25 and the second 20. it was hard going for all of us. most girls did the first 25 alright. i did 20 then struggled with the last 5. we took a 10 second break then started on the next 20. i did 4, then 5, then 4 then 7. no one managed to do the 20 flat out though some girls were pretty close. they ran out of steam at 17. our 45 pressups done, we moved to situps. we did them at one go then moved on to the bridge. aaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh! enough said.

i told the team that word was going round that CAR (confederation of african rugby) had appointed us (uganda) as the hosts of the women's qualifiers and the tournament would most likely be in july. there was a dead silence: july is only 3 months away ...