It's still only April and at our rugby practice it's already 28 degrees

Rugby is a winter support. You run around to keep warm, you cough and spit as the frigid air tears at your lungs, and if you get tackled, you fall softly into the cold, wet mud. But at Sunday's practice in the Amsterdamse Bos the temperature touched 28 degrees and the ground was so dry our boots sounded like horses' hooves thundering across the turf.