A Rare Tuesday Night in Newcastle

Dingos,

Last night the Newcastle Dingos made the most of a rare Tuesday where we didn't have to drive 4 hours on the F3, and went and did a sprint session in leui of joining Sydney training.

The first thing we did was get the curry simmering on the stove at my place.

We then headed to the fields for our session:
- Warm up jog
- Plyos (A's, B's, high knees, heel kicks, bounds, power hops, power skips)

- 40 x 40m sprints
We did these on a 30 sec interval timed with a beep on Tats's watch, with a 2 min rest in between each set of 10.
The first 10 was just sprints.
The next 2 sets of 10 we started on a centre line and took turns to call "left" or "right" on the 30s beep - the others having to react and sprint the 40m in the right direction. The next sprint would be a normal sprint back to the centre line. I only got my left/right mixed up once.
The last 10 we did with a beach start on each sprint.

The 3 of us are pretty evenly matched over 40m so there was some good competition to push us all the way.

Then we did 100 throws with a pivot and/or give go, with consequences (we had to get 10 in a row of each throw or start that throw again). We had no turnovers.

Then we did 3 sets of 6 in-out kill drill. Cutter runs in and receives the throw, dumps it straight back to the thrower then cuts long for the huck - attacking it as much as possible, getting it at the top of jump. These were bloody hard - had to dig deep for the 6th out cut of each set.


Then back to my place for the curry, which had simmered nicely. Chicken Tikka Masala with eggplant, sweet potato and cauliflower. Basmati rice. Condiments of banana, yogurt, mango chutney and beetroot. I offered the boys a beer, but they opted for the brekky juice instead. Much better than our usual Tuesday night Maccas stop on the F3.