For any professional sportsperson, an abrupt career disruption can be a nerve-racking, mind boggling affair.
In all sports, players mature and wither. Form comes and goes. Momentum shifts. Stars periodically align, but such has been the experience have had to grapple with since Covid-19 turned the entire globe upside-down in early 2020.
One such player is Winnie Ivayo, who is now pondering how life will be when the new season of the Kenya Hockey Union (KHU) League bullies off after Bank of Africa (BOA), formerly Vikings, were relegated from the top tier to the National League last season.
But that worry can take backseat, for now. Ivayo has settled on new hobbies...