What's up Boras Fans?

Im hurting right now.   Last night after the game we didn't find out if we had practice or not today, so when I got the text this morning that we were gonna practice I was a little worried.  Usually when we play a game, and don't have another one until the next week, we get the next day off.  So going into practice I figured we were gonna be doing some running but I had no idea it was gonna be for 2 straight hours.  Once everyone was on the court, Coach brought us together and we talked about some issues with the team thats going on.  We talked about attitude and how important it is for us to have a good one, how we carry ourselves and what not.  I agree with all that, I think we feed off each other and it's important for us to all be on the same page with everyone being positive.  Just one person who is feeling bad about things can affect everyone.  After we were done with that little meeting Coach told us we wouldn't be needing the baskets or balls because we would just be running.  So he explained what he wanted and it consisted of this:

running up the stairs, running behind the seating to the other end of the court, down the stairs, defensive slide along the baseline to the other set of stairs, running up those stairs, running behind the seats to the other end, down the other set of stairs, defensive slide along the baseline to where we first started and doing it all over again.  

We did this for two straight hours.  It was brutal.   And Im feeling it right now.  I gotta give some props out to Hank though.  He was a machine out there.  Johan and Jonas did a great job too.  Jonas amazed me, he's the old man on the team but he was putting most of us to shame.  He's mentally tough and that's something we need from everyone on the team.  I felt bad for Kingma.  After the game last night I asked Hasse what time he was gonna do his spin class.  I told him I'd be there and Kingma said he'd go as well.  But since I didn't get to bed until late I decided to skip the spin class but King went to it.  So after working hard in the spin class he had to do the 2 hour stair session as well.  That's tough.   Im kind of afraid to go to bed now because I know when I wake up I'll be feeling worse than I do now.  We have a morning practice at 10 tomorrow as well and I think were gonna need some extra time to warm up.  

It was funny though, for as much as we were complaining about running, afterwards in the locker room everyone was in a good mood.  We were laughing about how much we were hurting, Dennis made the biggest protein shake ever that he couldn't finish, guys were seeing how much weight they lost.  King won a scale for the man of the match and he keeps it in the locker room.  A couple guys weighed themselves before the stair session and then weighed themselves after it.  I think Hank was the biggest loser, losing close to 3 kilos.  And of course, since I was so tired, there was no way I was cooking tonight.  I hit up Spice & Rice on the way home and ran into Chris there.  I've already finished eating but am starving right now.  I think we burned alot of calories today.  So Im gonna go cook some eggs or something now.  Hope your all feeling better than I am right now.  Have a good one and I'll be back tomorrow with more on what's going on.   Take care.

Ryan