Sport : ALL its glory….and finalityI had set out yesterday to spend the day scooting about on my bike, basking in the glory of the spring sunshine. However thanks to Canberra and its inconsistent weather patterns... not the case and I am now perched comfortably in a cosy Canberra café, taking the opportunity to write what will more than likely be my last blog for the AOC.The past few months with our World Cup in Germany and the recent Olympic Qualifying tourna...

The grand optimist, or world's worst pessimist...it comes down to choice. There is a small glimmer of hope we can still qualify for London. We can win our next two matches and finish with nine points. That is the only thing within our sphere of influence over which we can exercise control. It's a difficult thing to summarise your thoughts and try to explain what emotions we have all felt over the last few days. It isn't so clear when you are trying ...

The eve before our first game...Laying on my belly... relaxed. A nice evening... Meeting with the team followed by physio- dry needling to alleviate the stiffness in my quad... feel the difference already. Birthday cake for our physio- girls acting a little silly- might be the sugar high or perhaps it's nervous energy. Tomorrow we have our first game of our Olympic Qualifying campaign. Over the last few days we have had some interesting times... Within 12 hours o...

Three days in a Chinese nutshell...DAY 1Wednesday the 24th of August 2011, 10:30am. The Matildas were... Suspended high above the ground in a crowded qantas jet... All making ourselves comfortable enough to get by the 10 hour flight. Scrolling through movies upon movies... Deciphering how we will all be entertaining ourselves... Unfolding textbooks... Creasing the first pages of books purchased prior to boarding the flight... Book club anyone?DAY 2Thursday 25/08/...

Our break... short, however necessary.At the moment the Matildas are between two major tournaments. We have had the World Cup in the month just gone and the Olympic qualifying tournament commencing in a weeks time. Back to back tournaments... I suppose the prospect of it all could seem quite daunting- but it's important we concentrate on the doing part and not the what if...If anything you could say we have had ideal preparation... our warm up games have been up ...