First rugby practice!

First rugby practice today!!!!! It was SO GOOD!!!

Okay, not the part where we did conditioning and I was all "NOT WORKING OUT IN SPAIN BECAUSE IT WAS TOO HOT WAS A DUMB EXCUSE BECAUSE THEN AT LEAST I WOULD'VE BEEN PREPARED FOR THIS WEATHER!!!" It was hot and I was out of shape. I was also kind of dehydrated, so I was inhaling water... which, of course, sat there like a helpful sea urchin in my stomach.

I must have looked a little like I was feeling, because Deanna pointed out the nearest trash can in case I needed to hurl.

Luckily, I'd already noticed it - also the nearest bush, in case the trash can was too far.

Luckily also, I'm a huge drama queen, and was fine (if a bit lazy with some of the running). The water finally went useful places, my face stopped tingling, and then we did contact! WHEEEEEEEE!!

I ended up taking out my industrial. It went back in after being out maybe an hour, hour and a half. It hurt, though - for at least a few months I'm going to just tape it instead of taking it out.

But yeah! Contact*! At which I didn't totally suck! And at the beginning of practice, we did lines**! At which I didn't totally suck, either!

Oh, oh, and then we played touch***!!! Which was SO MUCH FUN!!!! At which I also didn't totally suck!!!!

So, okay, nothing particularly exciting happened. Just rugby in general. The team is looking fabulous - we all knew what was going on and weren't disastrously out of shape and while we weren't at all perfect, the mistakes we made were not first practice since April mistakes.

YAY SUPER YAY!!!!!!!


*This is the non-rugger term guide: contact = running into people with your shoulders. Also, holding pads so people can run into you with their shoulders. AWESOME FUN!!

**Lines = running off and throwing the ball to each other. In lines. Kinda.

***Touch = rugby where we touch each other! ...Instead of tackling, you fools!