Rilla wrote:Dude.
If 3km in 22 minutes is good, then you need to learn how to run forwards and not backwards.

Compared to the previous session of 34mins. The fact I could jog at all after the tour is not bad.

simon m wrote:Boxing is much, much harder and skilful. I find Muay Thai, MMA etc., boring.

Mmmm. So did I until I realised I 1. can't kick for toffee and 2. realised how important balance and coordination are to it. I really enjoyed it.

You just requoted me?

Thursday: Rugby

7s training.

Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of sprinting and running. Full out sprinting and passing. Line passing.

Did I mention there was lots of runing?

I feel like I've been hit by a brick today, the combination of a fast paced training session that left me gasping for breath and seeing stars on occasion coupled with the Muay Thai means I have DOMs everywhere. I want to sleep for a week, but I'm gonna see if I can get out of a meeting tonight and go to Muay Thai again. :mrgreen:

GymBunny wrote:You just requoted me?

Thursday: Rugby

7s training.

Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of sprinting and running. Full out sprinting and passing. Line passing.

Did I mention there was lots of runing?

I feel like I've been hit by a brick today, the combination of a fast paced training session that left me gasping for breath and seeing stars on occasion coupled with the Muay Thai means I have DOMs everywhere. I want to sleep for a week, but I'm gonna see if I can get out of a meeting tonight and go to Muay Thai again. :mrgreen:

Give it a couple ofwweks and you'll be fine, just make sure your eating well

simon m wrote: Give it a couple ofwweks and you'll be fine, just make sure your eating well

Yeah that's the key thing. I don't think I'm getting enough food right now. Once this arsetting conference I'm helping organise is over and I'm fully moved, the important issue of food will be addressed. Interestingly (to me at any rate) is that right now I have absolutely zero appetite or interest in anything sweet. Normally I'd be neck deep in chocolate, but it actually makes me feel nauseous.

This has been a long time dead as I try to finish my PhD. Now, however, the time for realism dawns and I know I won't finish in time. This is normal for biology, so I'm going to keep you a bit mroe up-to-date.

Jena 10s.

Last weekend was the Jena 10s rugby tournament where teams from all over Germany and beyond get together for rugby, games (drinking and sport) and general fun. The original plan was for the whole team to travel down and try our hand at 10s rugby because, after coming 2nd in the Regional 7s League we've been invited to join the 2nd Bundesliga. The best laid plans of mice and men....and only 5 of us were able to go.

Luckily the Hong Kong 7s were attending and invited us to play as a cooperation. As most of the German teams that attended were South German teams we'd never played against them and the standard was high and a refreshing change to play against women who typically play 10s and 15s.

We played 3 matches in 30°C heat with the 4th match being cancelled when the lightning began. Playing in the rain is fine but less so when it looks like the goal posts are about to be struck by lightning. We lost our first 10s match, 0:30 but no one really cared because it was more about trying the game, seeing how tactics and rules varied and just having fun. It was fun. I saw more action in this match than in 7s and we won a decent amount of the scrums and all our line outs.

When we lost a player to a suspected broken nose (she was fine in the end) we switched to 7s and then began to win. No idea of the final scores but damn it was great. A lot more mauls than we typically get in the Northern League and more scrums.

In the end Hong Kong invited us to come to the Hong Kong 7s tournament in Hong Kong in March. I want to go but I think we'll decide at the next team meeting so we can all plan finance etc. I really enjoyed 10s, scrums with 5 people seem a considerable improvement over 3 and the more defined positions work well, but it made me realise I have actually come to really enjoy the fast pace of 7s. 10s seems a reasonable compromise between 7s and 15s but I definitely need to improve my fitness, a sedentary PhD writting experience is not helpful. Time to be more focused on sport.

All in all a great weekend. We lost the tug of war but won the kicking contests....Naturally we won the boat race, ladies, and were only beaten by 1/2 a pint against the men.

I'm sunburned, eaten alive by bugs, battered and bruised...well one boot print and a neck that feels like I've been headbanging all weekend and in possession of several new drinking games, several friends to the richer and feeling refreshed and keen for the season to begin again.

Sounds wonderful.

All rugby players should play 7's, it the only way to get really fit and improve skills

I agree, plus you really get a full body workout.

So anywho.....Tuesday.

Season has started again. Bit earlier than usual but doing sprints in the heat, while vile, is not as cruel as having to do them in the cold of winter.

1/2 hour touch, then passing drills - everyone can spin pass now - and running...lots and lots and lots of running, with passing and manoevers thrown in. Finished with another 1/2 hour of touch. Died.

Felt quite smug we didn't have bleep tests today like the guys.

Did the drinking games involve sooking boaby and noshing flange?