Wrestling Blogs - Ben Askren

8:30 AM Beijing time (Sun) 7:30 PM CST (Sat)

I really feel the need to redeem myself after yesterdays blog, because it was that bad. I just read it again this morning and I cant believe I even wrote it, just terrible. Yesterday morning everybody woke up late, we were supposed to have an 8:30 work out, but due to not getting back from opening ceremonies until 2:00am the previous night, we smartly pushed it back until the afternoon. When I woke up I felt like a truck hit me, my body doesn't take well to standing and especially not to 4 hours of it in the sweltering heat. Now I usually dont stink very much when I sweat, but the opening ceremonies cycle of sweating and stopping somewhere around 5 times left my closes just rancid. So the first thing I did when I woke up was to go and do laundary. Then I grabbed a bite to eat with Henry, they have these pretzel rolls in the caf that are so delicious I could eat them all day. After breakfast I stopped in at the internet cafe and then headed to our press conference. It was a good press conference, except for the fact that we got the small room and not the big room. I was asked all the usual questions, then Andy brought up the Barbara Bush story and the media ate it up, I think they are going to put me on TV for it, so Thanks ANDY. After the press conferece I wen tot get some pictures developed and then to do the unthinkable and get my haircut. It was a very tough decision to do this, because I liek my hair. But after Tsargush pulling my hair at world cup and Lewis pulling my corn rows at the trials I felt like I was left with no other option. However the chinese lady in the village that cut it wouldn't stop, finally I had to just stand up and make her stop. Needless to say my hair is shorter than I would perfer it to be. I got made fun of the rest of the day for my haircut. Then we headed over to workout at BNU, I rolled around with Daniel for a bit and then wrestled live with Max, overall the practice was good. I hustled back to Max's room for a it to rest for my next practice. Max and I went in a drilled again at 7pm, I felt really good, like a lot of things were coming together during this session. Then I ate some lunch and met up with Martin and Amy to hang out for a bit just down the road. After a while I decided to stay at Max's place instead of cabbing back to the village, I slept really well and now I am going to work out.

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