It’s the end of the Waratahs season and unfortunately the end of my Waratah career.
A month earlier, after 13 seasons, 130 Waratah games and 69 Teast, I decided that it was time to finish up at the end of the season. I still love playing
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The Waratahs in South Africa
Here are a few images of our trip to South Africa this year with the Waratahs where we spent most of our time in Durban.
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Back in Business
The month of March was not a good one for electronics in my household.
All in the space of about 3 weeks I managed to kill my laptop, my iPhone, my printer and my e-tag in my car (and while we’re at it somebody also managed to run into my car whilst it was parked in the street!). Well I now have a new iPhone, printer and e-tag and have also fully made the move over to Apple with a new MacBook Pro laptop – which means now I’m back in business to continue blogging.
We (the Waratahs) arrived into Auckland today to get ready to play the Auckland Blues tomorrow night so I thought I’d post a few images of the new grandstand at Eden Park. This ground will serve as the main stadium for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in September and in all honesty it’s not overly impressive for a ground that will be holding the final of the Rugby World Cup.
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It’s Friday night and I’m shattered.
It’s Friday night and my body is not happy – tight calves, hammies and glutes. It’s only 7.00pm and all I want to do is to hop into bed. One thing that I am very happy about though is I have tomorrow off! Only the guys who have fallen behind with strength or fitness have to train tomorrow – all others, which includes myself, have Saturday off.
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Day 4 – Coffees all round
It was interesting turning up to training today and seeing everybody just a little flat – the human body definitely has a sense of inertia so when you ask it to do things that it’s not used to, it will battle for a while until it adjusts to the change. So, although the training load hasn’t been particularly big yet and everybody is basically pretty fit, we are still getting used to doing multiple sessions in a day – making for some tired lads at training this morning.
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Day 3 and a little bit sore…
As I mentioned yesterday our training week is broken into 2 days on followed by a lighter 3rd day. The strength and conditioning (S & C) staff organise it in this way for a couple of reasons – one of the main ones though is because of something called DOMS. In the wonderful world of S & C this is not slang for a pack of condoms but actually Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.
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Day 2 and Still Feeling Fine…
The way our training week is set out in pre-season is two full days of training followed by one half day, repeated, with one day off each week – meaning Monday, Tuesday we are run into the ground, half day Wednesday to unload, Thursday, Friday flogged again, Saturday half day and Sunday rest (thankfully). So today being Tuesday we were unfortunately put through the wringer although this being the 1st Tuesday of November we also had a short afternoon break for the Melbourne Cup. Unfortunately just 10 mins of excitement timed as a team meeting finished and just before training started – not really the race that stops the Waratahs more like a speed bump.
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It all begins again at the Tahs
Today was the first day of the 2011 Super season, as well as being the first day of Waratah pre-season. The first day of training is much like the first day of school with many old mates back for another year as well as some new faces in the mix nervously trying to work out what they’ve got themselves into. Essentially though, today is the first day of 2 months of hard work.
What I hope to do over this next week is give you an insight into what a week of pre-season in the Waratahs rugby team is like from my point of view, as I’m experiencing it.
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