Searing lungs, dizzy spells - all part of the service

Nic Gill is not a sadistic bloke by nature - it's just that pain and suffering are a natural by-product of how he earns a crust.
And if the heaving chests and bile-rich throats of Tauranga Sports club rugby players this week were anything to go by, the All Black trainer has a knack of hitting the mark.
Gill, who moved his family to Papamoa just over a year ago, took the squad through a gruelling session on Mt Drury in Mount Maunganui. He'll also start working with Tauranga's Inside Running academy when the fresh intake begins later this month.
"It's my second session with Tauranga Sports - we also did a training at Omanu surf club a few weeks back, although the tide was in so we did heaps of stuff in the water," Gill said.
"Even since then, they've progressed well. This is a key time for them because they start playing soon and they've got to put some money in the bank ... sometimes the body doesn't like that - they definitely enjoyed the breaks but hopefully it prepares them for not being hurt, too."
The 35-year-old has been a paid fitness specialist for the last 12 years. He joined Waikato in 2000, followed Ian Foster into the Chiefs set-up in 2004 and was appointed to the All Black ranks in 2008.
It's been a great ride for Gill, who still has a passion for what he does. "It's really satisfying at the moment. The challenges never end and there are always different hurdles to overcome. It's just cool helping people achieve what they want to achieve.
"Professional sport in New Zealand is still pretty young, but every year, athletes are getting more and more motivated and better professionalism."
At this time of the year, most of Gill's work is in planning and monitoring All Blacks with their respective Super 15 franchises, as he doesn't get a squad of his own to work with until the All Blacks assemble for the Tri-Nations in early July.
"There's not a lot we can do at the moment - they've got to play rugby and win a Super-XV title and we can just hope we've got a good group of players ready to rock and roll for the Tri-Nations and the World Cup."
In the meantime, he'll devote some time to building on the success of the Inside Running Academy, which had a startlingly successful debut last year.
The academy is a joint venture between Inside Running and the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union, and academy director Mike Rogers is predicting members will be pulling on Steamers jerseys this season.
Gill is loving his move to the Bay after 10 years in Hamilton and hopes to stick around.
"I love the place. I don't want to have to leave and it felt like home pretty quick. It's just a matter of figuring out what I've got to do to stay, because there's not always a lot of job security in professional sport. But that's just the nature of it - you just try and do a good job and hopefully the contracts keep ticking over."
In the meantime, Tauranga Sports squad members like prop Kane Hames will spend the next month preparing for the start of the Baywide club season - and recovering from this week's torrid session.
"That was crazy-hard," Hames admitted. "I've done a lot of swimming but not much running, so to get straight into this stuff is pretty tough. I was getting pretty dizzy after that first lot of sprints and I was nearly gone.
"But it's great - as Nic said, it's like money in the bank training at this time of the year. You bank a session like this and move on to the next one, then see where you end up when the season comes."