boston demons....
Boston Pat and myself finally took the plunge and went to an intra club match at bunker hill.
if all goes well, we'll be playing next year. that is if the training dosn't kill us first....

http://www.bostondemons.com/








note the blue western bulldogs football in boston pats hand.
got it at the bulldogs shop for $20. made in india! :P

you will see me trying to stay out of the way in some of those pics.

We did not partake in the game, but the coach enlisted our help as runners (water boys - lol!)

seemed like a good group of guys and as the spider said I hope to be able to have a run with them next season for sure.

That's fantastic! Are the guys who play mainly ex-pat Aussies?

Nice work guys. You might want to put in a pre-season to boost your fitness for your first pre-season!

Keep us updated.

yes. we met a few aussies.

the goalie was one of them and the captian addressing the squad at the end of the game is an aussie, the coach and quite a few players. a lot of americans too.

thanks amnesiac. absolutely pre season training needed for both of us.

got a game coming up at the same place this saturday against philidelphia. they were supposed to turn up last saturday but pulled out.
this saturday coming will be a proper match
the scary part is i hear it's gonna be around 90 fareinheit and humid.

hey look! it's brad johnson at the bottom left come to visit ha ha ho ho......we wish....

Thats fantastic!! Nice to see some doggie jumpers :)

hehe two more on the way...

that big group pic is a bunch of teams from around the states. The Bulldogs are from Denver.

maybe we should move to denver Pat :P
nah, we got a job to do here..

Found the following fitness plan on the Boston Demons website.

Fitness

Here is a 5 week fitness program given to US Revolution players. We all should be doing this. Don’t let your fellow Demons down.

WEEK - 1

Session - 1
Time Trial (2 miles)

Session - 2
10 x 40 yards within 30 seconds (i.e. takes you 6 seconds you get 24 seconds rest)
20 x 20 yards within 20 seconds
20 x 10 yards within 15 seconds
*2 minutes rest between each set.

Session - 3
20 Minute Continuous Run.

WEEK - 2

Session - 1
1 x 1000 yards, 500 yards jog recovery
1 x 500 yards, 500 yards jog recovery
1 x 500 yards, 500 yards jog recovery
= 2000 yards work / 1500 yards recovery

Session - 2
Fartlek Running - 3 minutes jog, 1 minute stride x 6
= 24 minutes of continuous running.

Session - 3
15 Minute Continuous Run.

WEEK - 3

Session - 1
15 minute continuous run with 3 x 100 yard strides @ 75% throughout the run.

Session - 2
5 min jog, 10 x 40 yards within 30 seconds (i.e. takes you 6 sec. you get 24 sec. rest)
5 min jog, 10 x 20 yards within 20 seconds

Session - 3
20 Minutes Continuous Bike or Swim

WEEK - 4

Session - 1
1 x 1000 yards stride/run, 500 yards jog recovery
1 x 500 yards stride/run, 500 yards jog recovery
1 x 500 yards stride/run, 500 yards jog recovery
1 x 1000 yards stride/run, 1000 yards jog recovery
= 3000 yards work / 2500 yards recovery (Total 5500 yards)

Session - 2
10 x 200 yards within 2 minutes (i.e. takes you 30 seconds you get 90 seconds rest)

Session - 3
30 Minute Continuous Run

WEEK - 5

Time Trial (2 Miles)

Resistance/Strength Training - ongoing.

Check back soon for details and sample program.

Sounds like fun! (actually more like severe pain ;))

Who are the US Revolution? Are they the US national side for AFL?

Who are the US Revolution? Are they the US national side for AFL?

http://www.usfooty.com/usfooty/content.aspx?section=revolution&id=1

The Revolution is an All-Star team of Americans from around the country playing Australian Football and competing with national teams from around the world.

thanks for asking that question amnesiac. i just learned something...and yes, it does look like severe pain..... :frustrate:

speaking of which... the weather forecast here still predicts 89 fahreinheit for saturday....errrr

That comes out to be a lovely 32 degrees. Well lovely if your playing cricket maybe. Hope there's a nice cool breeze.

Good luck with it and we expect a full run down on Sunday (if you can get out of bed)!

no problema amnesiac will do. supposed to be humid too. yuk.

i run 4 miles 4 times a week up and down hills, rain hail or shine and i was sore as ten men the next day. couldn't figure out why. i'm sure boston pat was too. we pretty much ran all day and kicked the football around in between breaks so we didn't really stop.

the reason methinks for that is you are using a different group of muscles. eg: bending and scooping up the ball, taking marks, rapid bursts of running, etc so those muscles are not used to it.

anyway, hopefully a bit better this sunday....

I had my boys (9 & 7) in tow so I didn't pitch in much. But Hell, Mark was a machine. It ain't glamorous work, but running water on a day like today was essential and He did a super solid job.

Dees crushed the Hawks from Philadelphia.

VICTORY for the dees...
yes :D they did well on a blazingly hot day!

dees: 16 goals something
hawks: 4 goals something

no scoreboards at these games and i was too buggered to chase down the coach. plus he gets asked too many questions anyway...

well, it was definately a home ground advantage with lots of dees on the bench. the poor old hawks from philly only had about 4 and with one injury in to the 2nd quater i think it was and he had to come off and not take any more part in the game.

the dees got the jump on them early not giving the hawks much room to breathe and kept the pressure up througout the game. acurate kicking and good marking got the ball in to the dees forward line which usually resulted in a goal. agressive tackling and sheparding helped the cause too.
they had about 8 or so players on the interchange and coach "skills" was rotating them on a regular basis througout the game. it's a luxury the hawks didn't have.
it was a very impressive effort given the conditions

the hawks looked flat having just gotten off a plane from philly and not having much time to get used to the stifling heat. they looked a bit rattled.
with only 4 on the interchange, i imagine all the players were tired and take nothing away from them, they tried hard but they would have been pretty worn down by the last quater.

havn't got names for credits as i don't know many at this stage..

i guess today, every player will be sore and drained. i know i am and all i did was run water. plus the fact that i'm as old as a goat dosn't help either :P

yesterdays high was 97 farenhight (did i spell that correctly?) 36 celcius.
luckily the humidity wasn't too bad.

boston pat and the boys and myself played kick to kick during the breaks and thoroughly enjoyed it. who knows, his boys might become star american afl players one day. :clap: they're good kids
he took some excellent pictures too. will post later if it's ok with him. (copywrite you know :P )

anyway, here are mine. not very good as they were taken in between water fills. more like spray and pray shots..