Training resumes at Letchworth!

Letchworth girls are a hardy lot which is just as well because tonight they had their first training session of 2010 on the verdant lawn that is our training pitch ... well, not quite! Although the pitch still has a covering of 5-10cm of soft snow, what it is covering is no longer the hard ice that has prevented training since December ... now the snow is covering a layer of water over our usual bottomless depths of brown sticky mud. To say that the pitch now 'takes a stud' is to hopelessly understate the case - it also takes a whole foot not to mention the attached flipper. At just one degree above freezing with a thick mist over the grounds, these conditions were not for the faint-hearted.

However, the girls were keen to get back to training and seemed to revel in the conditions as these pics show ...