monday 3rd march: new month, new levels of fitness. we started off with a fijian touch warm up. at the back of our minds the dreaded hill loomed but we threw ourselves into the game wholeheartedly. when yogi came on, on her first touch of the ball she threw a dummy that sent alia scampering in the wrong direction then side stepped charlotte and left her clutching air (priceless) and still had enough gas in her to make a mad dash for the try line. when we were sufficiently warm we jogged to the hill with our TM, jero. we were to do 10 sprints up the hill. our team doctor, ambrose, was on hand in case anyone fainted, or pulled a muscle or whatever. i think he was a bit disappointed: they say doctors can never really be happy unless someone needs their services ...
harriet had forgotten her sneakers but that did not get her off. hadijah lent her hers as she had a knee injury and could not do the runs. as usual we sorted ourselves into same size, same speed. rachel (in photo) had missed training the whole month of february and cited lack of fitness as a reason to pair up with ann. there were protests all round: a prop and a winger?! no way!!! we decided to run in 3’s and 4’s rather than pairs so she ended up with charlotte, asha and myself. hmmmh. yes, she was unfit …
yogi found herself sprinting with 16 year olds half her size who wanted a taste of national team training so had joined us for the session. the youngsters were fleet footed and seemed to take a devilish delight in trying to outpace yogi. her pride on the line, yogi pushed herself all the way and made sure she kept the young upstarts in their place – behind her. fortunate landed herself both the TMs as her sprinting partners. unfit they may have been but jero was a former sprinter in her younger days so fortunate found herself having to go flat out to keep up with jero. on sprint 8, fortunate was ready to throw in the towel and jero laughingly teased her that her old legs and lungs had outlasted fortunate’s youth before taking off up the hill. fortunate followed suit and for the remaining sprints she and jero were literally neck to neck.
long sprints done we did our last set of sprints - continuous 1 minute uphill/downhill sprints over about 10 metres. we worked hard, knees up but after an age we wondered if we were running a 120 second minute or the regular 60 second minute. it’s true that when you are tired time seems to crawl by but i suspect that hadijah (who was sitting out and timing us) prolonged that minute to 2 minutes. we complained that the minute was stretching out too long but she ignored us. she probably would have prolonged the ‘one minute’ further but alia and brenda looked like they were headed in her direction to strangle her so she hastily called us to a stop.
we jogged back to kyadondo rugby club and finished up with 20 pressups, 20 situps and bridges for a count of 20. i did 19 pressups without stopping. i think i was so excited that i ran out of energy to do the last one. bummer! good to know that i am not the only one who struggles with pressups: prossy reached 15 then fell flat on her face … yes, we are definitely getting fitter.
yogi found herself sprinting with 16 year olds half her size who wanted a taste of national team training so had joined us for the session. the youngsters were fleet footed and seemed to take a devilish delight in trying to outpace yogi. her pride on the line, yogi pushed herself all the way and made sure she kept the young upstarts in their place – behind her. fortunate landed herself both the TMs as her sprinting partners. unfit they may have been but jero was a former sprinter in her younger days so fortunate found herself having to go flat out to keep up with jero. on sprint 8, fortunate was ready to throw in the towel and jero laughingly teased her that her old legs and lungs had outlasted fortunate’s youth before taking off up the hill. fortunate followed suit and for the remaining sprints she and jero were literally neck to neck.
long sprints done we did our last set of sprints - continuous 1 minute uphill/downhill sprints over about 10 metres. we worked hard, knees up but after an age we wondered if we were running a 120 second minute or the regular 60 second minute. it’s true that when you are tired time seems to crawl by but i suspect that hadijah (who was sitting out and timing us) prolonged that minute to 2 minutes. we complained that the minute was stretching out too long but she ignored us. she probably would have prolonged the ‘one minute’ further but alia and brenda looked like they were headed in her direction to strangle her so she hastily called us to a stop.
we jogged back to kyadondo rugby club and finished up with 20 pressups, 20 situps and bridges for a count of 20. i did 19 pressups without stopping. i think i was so excited that i ran out of energy to do the last one. bummer! good to know that i am not the only one who struggles with pressups: prossy reached 15 then fell flat on her face … yes, we are definitely getting fitter.
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