Chiefs’ preseason training started bright and early at the beginning of December in Hamilton. Had to move over there where the Chiefs have a sweet flat for three of us from the Bay, Colin Bourke, Mike Delaney and I. Trainings are Monday to Friday doing 4 or 5 sessions a day (ball skills, gym, wrestling, boxing, road bike, hill running and conditioning games), the fat boys have to come back on Saturdays to do extras as well as burning 300 calories before each day begins.
The hardest training would have been when we had a 3 team race around and up Mauao. We had to carry a team mate on a stretcher all the way up with only four people carrying at a time, we were lucky Sione Lauaki wasn't in our team. It took 40 minutes and afterwards the trainers had to cancel the ironman relay/race because the first swimmers got cramp and wouldn't let go of the buoy.
The blooper at training was when prop Ben Afeaki (130kg) flipped over his handle bars at full speed on the mountain bike in front of the traffic lights in 5 o'clock traffic.
Jason
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