Remember when I used to say that all the time?? Well it totally applies here! The schedule this weekend was relatively the same. Just a lot longer and crazier. Here is the abreviated version.
Left Edmond at 8:30am. Stopped in Salina, KS (4 hrs into trip, halfway) for lunch @ Subway. Arrived in Omaha at 5:00 pm. Checked in to Hotel, got settled. Went to practice at University of Nebraska at Omaha (which is kind of a creepy school at night, no lights and it is in a forest...) then came home and waited for the guys to shower before dinner. Went to Perkins around 7:30pm. Perkins is awesome!! I haven't been since MN/MI but it was bomb and I was SUPER hungery by the time we ate so it was even better. Went back, got ready for bed and fell asleep.
Wake up call at 5:15am. Then started the longest day EVER!! There were 30 schools (12 Division 1) at this tournament. 730 something wrestlers. 15 mats. 2 gyms. Kill me!! It actually wasn't that bad because we only brought 11 guys and there were 2 of us (I have a student helper) to cover all their matches so it worked fairly well. We were seperated a fair amount of the morning but then around lunchtime, we started covering everything together because some of our guys started getting eliminated.
What made everything even MORE fun was when I woke up, I started being really itchy all over my neck and realized that I had broken out in hives all over my neck and shoulders. I still don't know exactly why but I assume it was the hotel soap or something. Anyways, I took some benadryl because I had to stop itching. However, this made me SUPER tired. Around 1pm, we had a lull for a half hour and I completely fell asleep. It was awesome. I took the medicine around 6am... Fast forward to 10pm. That is when we finally finished all our matches (our best kid took 2nd in the amateur division) and loaded on the best. I popped another benadryl, ate some pizza and passed on that bus (Yeah, you read that right. I freakin slept the whole way home!!!) We stopped in Salina again on the way home to re-fuel and use the bathroom. I did so and then fell right back to sleep. We got back to Edmond at 6am. And yes, I did go back to sleep when I got home.
More of this story: take benadryl to sleep on buses. Also, don't use hotel soap. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Thank goodness for Thanksgiving so I get a week break from that bus! Then it's right back into it!
It's all in the life of an athletic trainer!
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