The 26-year-old panelbeater makes the 160km round trip from Balclutha to Dunedin three times a week so he can practise and play for the Colours.
"Yeah, that sounds about right,'' the tighthead replied when asked about his punishing travel routine.
"You definitely get over the travelling but it is a good club and they always look after me.''
He joined the club as an 18-year-old and planned to play for the colts for a couple of years.
The expected exit a few winters later never eventuated.
The fact the senior team had some very lean years only made it harder to leave.
So he stayed and kept clocking up those kilometres.
Last weekend he brought up his 100th senior game for the club during the remarkable 22-19 win against Taieri.
What made the victory so astonishing was the team had been thrashed 137-0 by University A just two weeks earlier.
Detailed statistics date back only to 1976 but it is almost certainly the heaviest defeat in the history of Dunedin premier rugby.
Given the team's woeful form, Preddy's 100th game shaped as another one of those fixtures where the side spent a lot of time huddled together under the goal posts. Not this time, though.
The Colours scored three tries in the opening 20 minutes to stun the 2014 champion, and then held on to clinch its first win against the Eels since 2000, when it won 40-15.
It was the ideal way for Preddy to celebrate the milestone.
"There is not too many in our team who get to celebrate their 50th or 100th game with a win. I know my win-loss ratio would not be that flash.''Preddy captained Zingari-Richmond during its 137-0 shellacking.
"We had a bad streak with injuries just in our loose forwards and a guy stood on a nail on the Friday night. We were just really short on numbers but they played really well, though.''
Despite the humiliating defeat, Preddy said the team had remained positive and felt it could be more competitive once it got over the injury hump.
"We just had to shrug it off and come back better. We had a talk about it and sort of really worked on fitness. We always knew we'd come back and everybody just dug in for that game [against Taieri].
"Before the game there was a good feeling in the changing rooms and the forwards just really fronted up.''
