Rugby, Running and Rabbits

There have been some fantastic developments since I last wrote. I went with my Dad on Wednesday evening to play touch rugby on the beach, but after watching the guys play for a bit I chickened out for the second week in a row, fortunately however, in the distance I spotted a group of 4 girls and a dude doing some passing practice. Turned out to be the Women's Rio Rugby team having their weekly training session. I joined in the training and even when the heavens opened and drenched us all to the bone I stuck with it and trained on. It was brilliant, I really enjoyed myself and was warmly welcomed by all. The team is quite small and there is very little funding and as you can imagine there aren't a huge number of other teams to compete against, so getting experience from playing games is difficult. I'm not going to say the girls are the best players in the world but they have the determination and hopefully over the coming months there will be much improvement.

After training I discovered, by eavesdropping on a conversation between the coach and one of the girls, that they are part of a team training for a half-marathon in June. I couldn't believe my luck! To cut a long story short I will become the fourth member of their running team, anyone who knows me well will understand how psyched I am about this. They reacted really positively when I suggested that we get sponsorship for the marathon and give the money to charity, so another bonus to the story!

I'm off to the beach now for the first time since I arrived.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Easter weekend and gets lots of chocolate from the Easter bunny.