Yesterday was the last tournament for the season. We were up and headed north abut 8:30 and managed to find ourselves a spot to sit near the rest of the team. R went out and got warming up with D who is to the left of him in the pic. They were in scouts together so are friends and spent the warmup time together.
The event is named in memory of a man who wrestled at the school, got cancer and still wrestled, gave back a bunch to the school and they have now built a wrestling building on the campus and are trying to name it after him.
The tournaments are an exercise in controlled chaos and it takes much of my being to be able to sit amongst the masses and wait for his next matches.
His first match was against a kid a bit stronger than him.
In one of the first tumbles R came up holding his side and arm in pain which was a harbinger for the rest of the matches.
He got pinned and was lying in pain on the mat so I went out to him quickly to make sure he was physically okay which I got a 5 out of 10 pain response. I felt bad for him but he didn't seem to much in pain after the match.
He got a bye for the next match and then a couple hours later he had his 2nd match. The match went really fast as the other kid kinda gave up. R got his win for the day in 33 seconds.
The last match for the day was for 3rd place and the arm issue came back.
He re3ally did fight hard the whole time but I could tell that his arm was bothering him and it made it too difficult for him to manage to match and the pain.
It was a really solid bout and R did fight the whole time, many8 of the adults around the mat commented as much after.
He was REALLY NOT HAPPY losing the match as he was really wanting the 3rd place medal. I've not seen him that upset before and it lasted all the way on the drive until we pulled into Dollar General in Elk that he perked up and the anguish disappeared. They came out with handfuls of Pokemon stuff and soon we were back on the farm.
It rained for much of the morning and had moved off for the afternoon. I got the fire going in the pit and added as many of the dry pine needles as I could. Much of the pile is still super wet.
First harvest of the year was a nice handful of radishes from the greenhouse. A dozen nice sized and VERY mild tasting got picked and were almost instantly devoured when in the house.
While waiting on the boys to get the potatoes done I was throwing some darts and again found my aim is improving pretty steadily.
After they finally got the potatoes going I was able to get the burgers on the grill.
I toasted the buns quickly after.
After a few shows we put music on for the evening then by 9pm we were out soaking, later than normal but it was a Saturday night.
I'm sore this morning from all the sitting and the chaos of the tournament, I'm not a fan of crowds. It's raining today so will be cooler and I have to try and get this damned stepper motor to work, solder the header pins to the new Cube Cell LoRa, fix the arm on my chair after one of the bolts broke that holds it on, actually plant the spinach seeds I have been meaning to get in the ground, and then come up with something for dinner.
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