Keeva Day 16/31
I started playing non contact rugby about 10 years ago when we entered a QUB work team in the (then) new social mixed Tag Rugby league. It was the best craic even if I was terrible at it! We had training nights, match nights, social nights and of course our own version of end of season awards nights! The league in Belfast grew from one season to run from spring to winter over several evenings to accommodate all the teams, with multiple league levels from beginners (which the more social sporting teams like us stayed in!) to advanced.
In Cambridge we found the closest equivalent in the great local Touch Rugby league and set up a team with friends. The season starts with Spring league in April and finishes in September at the end of Summer league. Its a little different from Tag rugby but happily you can still be rubbish at running, throwing, catching, defending, try scoring and generally following rules and play! …many will testify to my inabilities but I enjoy trying!
I’m doubly lucky to work on a great campus, Wellcome Genome Campus, where lots of people are active. As well as a gym and various fitness classes, there is alot of different organised sports, football, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, to name a few and of course touch rugby! We play at lunch time once a week (twice on a good week!) in the gorgeous campus grounds. The game is normally 6-a-side but you can have a good run with more or less players, just adjust the pitch width or run more! This year we’ve even managed to play for a full year regardless of season, December we were in gloves & hats on the pitch, this week we could have done with sunglasses!
If you’re interested, contact your local league and they can help set you up with teams looking for players and if you’re not sure if it’s for you ask if there’s training sessions to join.
Cambridge touch also runs training sessions during the winter and has a friendly game on Saturday mornings at Parkers Piece.
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