November 25th, 2007

Today I wrestled in the Vantaa Cup in Finland. The tournament went well for me, I won all four of my matches. I will tell you though that I was so exhausted today from last night. Last night I made weight without any problems. I was about two kilos over, and I lost all of it in the sauna. It took me about an hour to get down to weight. After that I had a good meal, plenty of fluids, and I was looking forward to a good night´s sleep. However, I couldn´t fall asleep last night. The couple of nights prior to weigh ins I was taking ambien to help me fall asleep and get my internal clock regulated to the time difference here, it is about a nine hour time difference. However, last night I decided not to take one because I didn´t want to feel groggy in the morning, because sometimes after taking sleep aids I feel groggy and sluggish the following morning. Anyway I just couldn´t fall asleep last night. I think I probably got two hours of sleep last night and I was definitely feeling it this morning in my first couple of matches. I am usually in pretty good shape, and I don´t really end up gasping for air during my matches, but today I was hurting bad! Fortunately for me I was able to squeeze in a couple of short naps inbetween my matches today. They helped me out quite a bit. So now that I am tired from wrestling all day long I am hoping that tonight will be the night that I get a full nights sleep without having to take anything.
Tommorrow morning I leave with a couple other guys to travel to Sweden for the Haparanda cup next weekend. I thought that we were going to be staying here for a week long training camp, but it looks as if our travel arrangements were scheduled differently. Last year the training camp was great. There were several other countries that stayed after the tournament to train and get ready for the Haparanda Cup. I suppose that we will just have to come up with our own training camp maybe doing some things Rocky style like running in the snow and working out in old barns. Well I don´t think that we will go that far, but we will see. Last year it was so cold in Sweden. The city that we will be staying in is very close to the North Pole so you can probably imagine what the weather is like this time of year. All these experiences make for good stories in the future.
Well I know this is a short post, but I am really tired. I hope everyone is doing well. Thanks for following what has been going on in my neck of the woods. Take care.