{"id":447374,"date":"2026-01-30T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:02:10","slug":"the-lactic-in-your-legs-reaches-crazy-levels-corrigan-relishing-series-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447374\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The lactic in your legs reaches crazy levels’: Corrigan relishing Series reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a sensational start to the Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby<\/a> season with Saracens, Alysha Corrigan<\/a> cannot wait to get back on the HSBC SVNS<\/a> Series.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Canada<\/a> international has scored six tries in the English women\u2019s top flight so far this term, beaten 19 defenders and made 433 metres as Alex Austerberry\u2019s side topped the table ahead of the winter break.<\/p>\n

No stranger to the seven-a-side game, Corrigan is one of the squad that left Paris two summers ago with an Olympic silver medal around her neck.<\/p>\n

She had rejoined Jocelyn Barrieau\u2019s team alongside fellow format hoppers Olivia Apps<\/a>, Gabby Senft, Sabrina Poulin<\/a> and Fancy Bermudez<\/a> for the trip to Singapore and Perth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest part of switching back is, without doubt, the fitness: the lactic in your legs reaches crazy levels,\u201d Corrigan told HSBC SVNS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour brain knows that you\u2019re supposed to move \u2013 to generate power, or do literally anything at all \u2014 but you just can\u2019t. Throw 35C heat into that equation, and you\u2019re asking yourself why you do this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere then comes a point when even your brain isn\u2019t working, you hardly know what you\u2019re doing, and it\u2019s fight or flight. It\u2019s hard to do it justice. You think 14 minutes isn\u2019t that long, but 14 minutes in sevens is an eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corrigan is a staunch believer in the usefulness of sevens for individual development. She has also seen the likes of Jorja Miller<\/a>, Meg Jones and Alev Kelter<\/a> flit between the format and the 15-a-side game with ease.<\/p>\n

Over the Christmas break, with Saracens<\/a> top of PWR, she returned home to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and prepared for her latest spell on the Series alone.<\/p>\n

Hours were spent in empty gyms as the majority of the town avoided the bitter winter on the far east coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I just love sevens,\u201d she laughed. \u201cYour first session back, there\u2019s always this thrilling moment where you realise just how much space there is to play with, and how much fun you can have with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlus, this stint works perfectly with my Saracens\u2019 schedule. I was going to use January as a bit of an off-season anyway. It\u2019s been so long since we had a sustained training block. It\u2019s still a good break, mentally, emotionally, and from 15s-style contact.\u201d<\/p>\n

After legs in Dubai and Cape Town, the Canadians are yet to set the world alight after back-to-back sixth-place finishes.<\/p>\n

Ranked seventh overall in the standings Canada are yet to finish Day 2 with a win.<\/p>\n

Even so their young captain, Carissa Norsten, and starlet Kennedi Stevenson have looked every bit the part on the biggest sevens stage outside of the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been one of the biggest takeaways from Dubai and Cape Town: we lacked, at a few key moments, the sort of game management you can only really gain from big match experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a slightly new-look squad, transitioning elements of our game. But what\u2019s awesome is that Jocelyn empowers us to try things as we grow and learn together, which opens the door to nerve-free rugby.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s amazing \u2014 so passionate about the sport, our team, and what it means to be Canadian and represent that badge. She\u2019s the perfect person to get that extra one or two per cent out of us, to keep challenging us, whilst bringing through the younger athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a sensational start to the Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby season with Saracens, Alysha Corrigan cannot wait to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-447374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}