Well an eventful and productive week for me. I began in Falmouth and ended in Truro. We had two very good training sessions this week. Zane arrived this week so it gave me an extra person to train with which has been great and we were able to do extra work at the end of each session with Rory. I continued on my individual training also down at Falmouth Rugby club of all places. Because I hadn’t been playing games it has been very important for me to keep my fitness as close to match fitness as possible for when the opportunity came.

After training on Thursday I stayed in Plymouth with Rory and Zane, and then on Saturday morning, Rory dropped us off and we were on our way with a very long bus trip to Ebbsfleet. It was a lovely ground and a new stand is being built, so I’m sure at its completion the stadium will be even greater. I got my first start which was very exciting but it was straight into business. We played very well and I feel as though it was a very positive performance compared with previous games. We were well in the game until the last 10min and unfortunately lost 4-2. It was another long journey home and I made sure I stretched at each stop we made just to ensure my recovery was on track after playing my first full game in about 2 months. It was great to get going, and hopefully we can build on the performance as a team and begin to turn the results around. On Sunday, Zane and I packed up our stuff and headed to the train station to head to Truro. We were finally in the town that we would be settling, so that was a nice feeling. We got a good recovery training session in that evening and we were ready for the next week.