Not everyone mentions Bath Rugby Club in the same breath as rest and recreation.
Unless, of course, you are the Black Sticks men's hockey team.
It's early in the morning at the London Olympic village and the prospect of travelling to the club excites the New Zealanders.
Vice-captain Shea McAleese and the rest of the 15 players are humming at the thought of some R&R, following rigorous twice-a-day training sessions in the build-up to the Games.
"We went pretty hard out for 10 days in Belgium ... and it's an overload scenario, so the Bath trip is a little R&R for us," the 27-year-old from Napier revealed just before their bus arrived for the trip to the club.
A spot of lunch with Bath players is also on the agenda.
If everything goes to plan there's the prospect of meeting Rugby World Cup hero Stephen Donald, who is apparently a good mate of fellow Black Stick Blair Hopping.
"It'll be a special occasion," McAleese said of an unconditioned Donald, who came on cold off the bench, after answering an SOS from the ABs camp following a spate of injuries to first and second-choice players.
In doing so, he converted a cup-winning penalty kick in the final against France in October last year.
While the village wasn't actually teeming with athletes, the first-time Olympians in the squad are beginning to feel the tension and exhilaration of gearing up for the opening ceremony and opening match against Korea in pool B at 7.30pm on Monday (NZ time).
Helping themselves to what they want to eat at the food hall is a godsend in the "little community-like" set up.
"The accommodation is like cow blocks [high-rise apartments] and brand-spanking new. There's heaps of culture," says McAleese, adding it's his second Games after the Beijing Games in 2008, so he was taking things a little better in his stride.
London, he believes, is a lot different to Beijing where everything was down to a tee with almost military precision.
The 161-cap veteran, who made his debut in 2005, expects a bit more spontaneity this time at a venue that is "a special place to travel to and it'll be more special in the next 20 odd years".
"I was about 5 years old when I was dreaming of going to the Olympics."
It was his first glimpse of the Games, watching on TV the kayaking pair of Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald clinch gold.
"I might have been watching the highlights on TV.
"I was 24 when I actually made it [to the Beijing Olympics]."
Well before the Black Sticks squad was trimmed from 25 to 16, McAleese showed no complacency about his selection.
"I'm never comfortable. I know what it's like to be dropped."
The former Napier Boys' High School pupil has had his share of frustrations over the years, trying to find a niche in the team.
He attempted to fulfil the requirements of a centre forward, remodelling his skill-set but reverted to the engine room after some trials and tribulations exacerbated by a recurring shoulder injury that required surgery.
Nowadays it seems McAleese is the yardstick for fitness in the squad.
The "yo-yo" beep test is a bit more laborious than a standard one, separating the boys from the men in strength and agility.
"I clocked a level 24 that I don't think anyone has been doing in any code," he had revealed before they had set off for the three tests against Australia last month following the euphoria of their maiden Sultan Azlan Shah Cup title in Malaysia in May.
Remarkably, McAleese had hurt his back a little so he couldn't put too much weight on the routines as he would have liked.
The concerted Olympic "centralisation" process began in Auckland from April 16.
While there was some jostling and brainstorming over who should assume the mantle of captaincy, McAleese doesn't feel there are any overriding issues pertaining to his good friends and fellow veterans, Dean Couzins and Phil Burrows.
"Captaincy is one of those things that happens in any sport.
"It's better for the team if we knuckle down and get on with it so there are no issues with that."
The team culture and constitution are also in harmony.
They are mates off the turf but once on it, no love is lost as the days keep ticking down to make successive line-ups.
He has played for New Zealand a couple of times in London where he has a few cousins and friends but it's always to play hockey rather than find time to experience the culture.
His parents, Margie and Dan McAleese, of Napier, weren't initially travelling to London because of work and the cost of travelling but that stance has changed.
"We've got family to live with there so our plans have changed now," Dan said last night, before the McAleeses jet off on Saturday.
He said it was mind boggling to know that four million people had descended on London for the Games and one couldn't find accommodation to save oneself.
In an ironic twist, Shea McAleese's brother, Jonathan McAleese, 31, a polytechnic sports science lecturer in Melbourne, planned to support him and the Black Sticks but won't be going now.
"Jonathan's found himself a new job in the fire service so he didn't go," Dan explained.
The parents of the Olympian are very proud of Shea.
"It's nice to see any kid's success and it's great to watch him play at a level of ultimate sports achievement."
Shea McAleese says the men's squad hope to cheer on other Kiwis competing at the Games if time permits between the Black Sticks' campaign.
The New Zealand hockey men were placed fourth in the Champions Trophy in December but they qualified for the London Olympics by virtue of being the No7-ranked team in the world.
They join top seeds Australia as the combined Oceania representatives.
The Black Sticks men will have to cause upsets in their pool B games to earn the right to clinch a medal chance.
They are ranked fourth in their pool.
New Zealand's best performance at the Games was at the 1976 Montreal Olympics when they won gold.
The best after that was sixth at Athens and at Beijing in 2008, they were seventh.
While having ambitions to clinch gold is the ultimate, a more realistic goal is making the top four, he says.
"We must finish in the top two of our pool and then it's a one-off semifinal so anything can happen from there."
A primarily amateur sport, McAleese saluted sponsors for their backing, especially the Hawke's Bay business community who are the official shirt sponsors in the lead up to the Olympics.
McAleese, the Bay hockey academy head coach, flats with his Belgian girlfriend, Annie Wellemans, in Auckland.