Winter is here tomorrow and the weather is
definitely starting to get worse. We received our first snowfall last
Friday which was quite an experience. Everything including the rooftops,
back yard and road was covered. Temperature rarely gets above 5 degrees
during the day but we are told it will get quite a bit worse. Clocks
also went back an hour on the weekend so are back to being 11 hours
behind New Zealand again. Because of this it is now getting dark at
4.30pm.
I played my first game of rugby in the snow on Saturday at Kelland’s Park (our home ground). I had to wear two layers of thermals to keep warm and it wasn’t too bad after a decent warmup. Being a halfback (and having to pass off the ground a lot) the only part of my body that was cold was my hands. We had another good win which puts us 15 points clear at the top of the table with 9 wins from 9. Our next game is a tough one away against Lochaber who have only lost one game. The 4 hour bus trip down is supposed to be a good one, going through some scenic parts of Scotland.
Chris (Development Officer), Peter (Forwards coach) and myself went down to Edinburgh on Monday night to see Wayne Smith present a coaching seminar. He was good to listen do and left us with a lot of good ideas about coaching that we can hopefully bring to the team. I introduced myself after the session and had a bit of a chat. I think he was quite surprised to see another kiwi.
We have 3 more games before the Christmas break, and the season will start back up around mid-January after that. We are heading to Edinburgh for the All Blacks v Scotland game on 11 November with our flatmates which will be cool. Haylee and I are staying down for a long weekend to do some sightseeing around the capital. We have also booked flights to go to London for a couple of weeks over Christmas/New Years which we are both looking forward too also.
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| First snow in Inverurie in October. |
I played my first game of rugby in the snow on Saturday at Kelland’s Park (our home ground). I had to wear two layers of thermals to keep warm and it wasn’t too bad after a decent warmup. Being a halfback (and having to pass off the ground a lot) the only part of my body that was cold was my hands. We had another good win which puts us 15 points clear at the top of the table with 9 wins from 9. Our next game is a tough one away against Lochaber who have only lost one game. The 4 hour bus trip down is supposed to be a good one, going through some scenic parts of Scotland.
Chris (Development Officer), Peter (Forwards coach) and myself went down to Edinburgh on Monday night to see Wayne Smith present a coaching seminar. He was good to listen do and left us with a lot of good ideas about coaching that we can hopefully bring to the team. I introduced myself after the session and had a bit of a chat. I think he was quite surprised to see another kiwi.
We have 3 more games before the Christmas break, and the season will start back up around mid-January after that. We are heading to Edinburgh for the All Blacks v Scotland game on 11 November with our flatmates which will be cool. Haylee and I are staying down for a long weekend to do some sightseeing around the capital. We have also booked flights to go to London for a couple of weeks over Christmas/New Years which we are both looking forward too also.
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