9:30am, between Washington monument and WW2 memorial. If the west side of the mall or the tidal basin are open, we might move, but they’ve been closed off the last few weeks.

Temps will be below freezing, about 16F/-9C. Prepare yourself mentally and physically for the cold. Good news is there is no ice.

Hooray! I think the temp will crack 40…positively tropical. We’ve been having some great runs on the turf field. So come on out if you need an excuse to stretch the legs mid-week after a long day of work

Temp: Cold*. Wind: Light. Rain: None. *frosty, freezing, arctic, frigid, glacial…..

Quick note about the delayed weekday posts. With the colder evenings we don’t want to risk having only five or six people show up, so it’s trying gauge interest before making it official. It seems like we have been pretty successful with the field space at Bundy and there has been consistent interest in Monday and Wednesday. So if you’re trying to plan your week, it’s likely that we will play, but the official post will still probably come out the same day for weekdays.

But we aren’t going to let a small threat of frostbite stop us. We’re on for Saturday morning. The west side of the Washington monument, between WW2 memorial and Washington monument. 9:30am

The realfeel index shows about 19F (-7C), but plenty of sunshine. Also there will still be some snow on the ground since temps haven’t gotten high enough to melt any of last night’s snow.

Bundle up, mentally prepare, and let’s have some fun.

We’ll play tonight and it will be a relatively warm 43 degrees. But I can’t guarantee all the snow will be melted yet.

The weekend feels incomplete without a little rugby. So in an exciting change of pace we’ll play in Sunday. This is a little last minute, but had to make sure there was enough interest.

We’ll be on the east side of the Washington monument at 9:30. The old field between WW2 memorial and Washington monument. The mall and tidal basin are roped off, and with the soggy ground we don’t want to give the park rangers a reason to dislike us.

It will be in the low 60s, and even though it’ll be a little wet under foot, the rain will be gone by the time we play.

No touch on Jan 1st. Even though it falls on a Saturday, we’ll all need a day to recover from the revelry ushering out 2021. Also It’s going to be rainy all day long. Sloshing around hungover in the wet and cold didn’t seem like a good way to start the year. So have a hot cocoa, read a book, watch some netflix, stretch, and get ready for lots of touch in 2022.

We’ll play tonight at Bundy Field 5:30p. There is only about 50% chance of very light rain, and it should be a relatively warm 53 degree evening.

COVID note: The DMV area has seen a tremendous uptick in the number of cases in the last week. I don’t want DC touch to be a superspreader activity, but short of going into lockdown again, it’s going to be difficult not to get this more contagious variant. If you aren’t already, please get vaccinated and boosted. This is the best way to prevent serious illness if you do catch the virus. Wear a mask, avoid crowded indoor areas, and take precautions so our rugby community can stay healthy. We want everyone to come out and play, but make an honest assessment of your risk profile before coming to play. If you help your elderly parents or grandparents every week, or you have young children that could bring the virus from or take the virus to the classroom, or you work in a hospital, these are all examples when it might be best for you not to play.

No touch on Saturday

Come play touch at Bundy field tonight at 5:30pm. It will be very cold, in part due to expected moderate wind chill. But we had a great run Monday in almost the same conditions.

If it doesn’t look like there will be enough people, I’ll put up a cancellation here. But for now assume we are on.