11/9/21 Football Practice Was Light Work Compared To Wrestling?

     Out of the frying pan and into the fire.  For some reason, I was thinking we would have a sigh of relief when football practice ended, but wrestling has taken over in full gear and it is not messing around.  The season officially started last night with a parent's meeting after the first practice.  Wife attended and there were discussions with the booster club, and ordering of shirts for students and parents.  I am a little excited at this point, Baby A loved the sport last season, but because of Covid, the team consisted of three boys and three girls.  Last night, Wife said there were 45 kids on the team.  As far as I know, there are 13 weight classes, then there's boys and girls, so most everybody can fit in.  I am not sure what happens when there are multiple kids in the same weight class, do they allow them all to compete or do they limit it to 1-2 kids per weight class?

    Baby A said he was weighed before practice and weighed in at 247pounds, and after practice out of curiosity he weighed himself and he had lost five pounds, of sweat, I guess.  I saw their practice room last year and it is a smallish internal room with no windows, perfect to get that stinky sweat going.  I had the honor of washing his clothes and the shirt and hoodie he wore while practicing were probably still carrying the five pounds of sweat, they were heavy lifting them from the ground into the washer, now that I think about it, gross, it was all sweat!!

    While football practice happened during class and after school, until the sun went down, pretty much.  Wrestling starts our day now at 6:30am, I say our day because I have to drive him to school at that hour.  These next two days, there will be no after school practice, the coach has some obligation, but normally, they will also practice after school until 6:00pm.  This is good in that Mijo will be home a little earlier, but because Wife is driving back from San Antonio in the afternoon, the 7:00pm ending of football was better to give her more time to get here and even take a quick shower before heading out to pick him up.  I imagine there will be days she gets stuck in traffic and I might have to go pick him up.

    The season is cut up between the holidays, we will be going through the week off from Thanksgiving and then the two weeks off from Christmas, but the season will march on until February, so buckle in, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.