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Fun and informative log. Congratulations Coach
Thanks.
You ARE aware that 90% of the time these pics are mid pose or just doing nothing, right?
I see many times I am reaching up to the heavens looking for some sort of salvation. Not a pose in any way.
It’s annoying…but not as annoying as paying $300 for ten pics in a digital download.
You would not believe what a fucking money grab these shows are.
Remember my t-shirt complaint?
This year was the exact same thing as last year’s design. Only the dates changed.
And the size? Same as last year.
“We only got da extra lodge buddy.”
But I signed up months ago and put XXL down.
“You want it or not?”
At some point I heard they were going to charge competitors to watch the show.
Really….
Tomorrow during cardio I will tell my take of a fuck story/goat fuck travel.
Teaser: They took us to Philadephia instead of Newark.
I am telling you…this competing thing. You really, really gotta want it.
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Fully aware. Every pic I got last year was not even in the post. Haha
I should have used some laughing emojis I was just joking around with you buddy
79 bucks a ticket out here for my family. And everybody wanted shirts - ridiculous pricing. .
You look awesome. Proud
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Congrats! Enjoyed the log
$70 prejudging. $70 night show. Works out to about $20/minute for my wife. If I weren’t competing, we’d watch the show. But once done with pre, it’s off to the room to eat and chill. At night, I want to scrub that shit off of me the instant I get off stage.Fully aware. Every pic I got last year was not even in the post. Haha
I should have used some laughing emojis I was just joking around with you buddy
79 bucks a ticket out here for my family. And everybody wanted shirts - ridiculous pricing. .
You look awesome. Proud
The GASP booth was full retail. When I asked, the chick looked at me like I was too broke to buy anything. I asked why I would buy from her when I could use one of many friend’s codes, get a discount AND get them recognition?
I did buy five cookies from Juan Morel. Only $5 each and waaaay better that those $8 crumbl ones.
I bought a pretty plain NPC shirt for a friend. It was $35. Stupid prices.
Being honest, the whole money grab thing puts a very bad taste in my mouth. Part of my dilemma to keep at this.
Motorcycle racing was very expensive, but it felt like you got more value. I did spend $7k on tires in one season, which makes BB cheaper. But like I said, there seemed more value in racing. The club didn’t make you feel your wallet was being raped at every turn.
And since I am back at it, sitting here doing cardio at a whopping 207.8 lbs after yesterday’s three double IPAs, pizza, cherry pie with ice cream…..
Here my travel story:
Last year we arrived at JFK at midnight and took a $150 über to New Jersey on the day of weigh ins. The day before the show.
This year I wanted to fly into Newark because it is much closer (cheaper) to the actual venue and hotel which we were going to stay at this time around,
I paid at least $200 more per ticket to be able to arrive at 1830 instead of midnight. Wanted to get in early and chill.
Well, after 5 and 1/2 hours of flying from Seattle with “gentle parented” children behind us, screamming, yelling and kicking out seats the whole fight, we got to EWR/Newark.
Except we didn’t.
We flew around Newark for nearly an hour while they waited for thunderstorms to subside.
Except they didn’t.
So the informed us we were flying to Philadelphia to “refuel and then fly to EWR”.
“Don’t get off the plane. We will not be offloading your baggage and we will be flying back to Newark because the storms have passed.”
About 40 minutes later the announce that “This plane isn’t going anywhere. Please deplane and collect your baggage and we will email a link to use Lyft to take you to Newark.
Well…I already smelled a rat because I know from experience that these drivers will deny you a ride when they find out where you are going.
I flew into Knoxville, Tennessee once and needed a ride about an hour away to Crossville. Four drivers cancelled my ride when I told them where I needed to go. The fourth, I offered $100 cash over the already $100 Über fare to take us. It was the only way we could get there.
So we waited at the gate just in case there was going to be a SNAFU. Just as I suspected, we waited for another 30 minutes for that email to come through. As I suspected, people started returning, saying that the link didn’t work, there weren’t enough drivers and they were refusing rides the nearly two hours to Newark.
Then people said they were calling the numbers provided and getting the circular run around that is “customer service” these days.
So I called an Alaska Airlines rep I have a direct number for, who usually picks up by the third ring. I have her number because as Mexican residents, I call to get a refund on the tourist tax we pay on tickets down there, which is about $40pp.
She tells me to just rent a car, submit receipts and they will reimburse me.
A side note: I have discovered that the further you get from Seattle, the less of Alaska Airlines ethos exists. They are usually top notch and have always been great to us. We try to use them whenever we can.
But that counter in Philly felt way more Spirit than Alaska. When people started to politely complain about the Lyft link not working, the agents started with head bobbing and swiveling, combined with that fucking Spirit attitude I see on the internet all the time.
As a problem solver, I just went forward to sort this out. No reason to get angry. Although plenty of people were.
We go to baggage claim and look for our bags. Nowhere to be seen. They are in the office…which isn’t manned. ¡A huevo!
We finally get our bags and head to the very off-site carvrental.
I rent a car, which is nearly $200 and go load my shit in the trunk.
My wife sits down and unknown to her, there’s a puddle in the thoughoughly soaked passenger seat. Someone at the agency left the window down during their thunderstorm.
Now fellas, think about how your wives would respond/behave in this situation.
Now how would she be on that following two hour drive?
So they get us another car, it starts raing and I can’t really inspect the thing. Except to make sure the seat was dry.
You know where this is going…
So after two hours of driving at night and in the rain, two things I am terrible at, we get to our hotel at the airport, around midnight, which was where we had paid for the night there already.
Insult to injury…in the morning I see the scrapes and dents all down the driver’s side. (In the end, when I returned the car, I pitched such a bitch that they didn’t ding me for it.)
We checken into the room, I made sure my wife was settled, then down to the “fitness center” in the hotel for an hour of cardio.
Trying to relax, chill and flush the cortisol wasn’t going to plan, so I tripled the tren.
Just kidding.
Obviously we made it, I competed, and now that I am home and relaxed, I am lighter, tighter and look the way I should have Saturday, which probably would have gotten me a 3rd place finish.
Shit happens. I get it. But guys, those of you who think about competing, let this be a lesson that you MUST be prepared, or at least capable of overcoming much more than the fatigue, hunger and short fuse that comes days before a show.
Some of you will remember my failed attempt to get to Pakistan when I was invited to compete in their inaugural Amatuer Olympia.
Same deal. Screwed airline issues, cancelled flights and inept staff. On that one we just flew back to Mexico from LAX because no amount of money or patience was going to resolve that SNAFU.
Maybe I sound like a magnet for this crap. Maybe I am and maybe some of you are blessed? I dunno? But I am used to these kind of things and deal with them as they come.
It just isn’t easy on a prep, loaded with test, tren and halo.
Here my travel story:
Last year we arrived at JFK at midnight and took a $150 über to New Jersey on the day of weigh ins. The day before the show.
This year I wanted to fly into Newark because it is much closer (cheaper) to the actual venue and hotel which we were going to stay at this time around,
I paid at least $200 more per ticket to be able to arrive at 1830 instead of midnight. Wanted to get in early and chill.
Well, after 5 and 1/2 hours of flying from Seattle with “gentle parented” children behind us, screamming, yelling and kicking out seats the whole fight, we got to EWR/Newark.
Except we didn’t.
We flew around Newark for nearly an hour while they waited for thunderstorms to subside.
Except they didn’t.
So the informed us we were flying to Philadelphia to “refuel and then fly to EWR”.
“Don’t get off the plane. We will not be offloading your baggage and we will be flying back to Newark because the storms have passed.”
About 40 minutes later the announce that “This plane isn’t going anywhere. Please deplane and collect your baggage and we will email a link to use Lyft to take you to Newark.
Well…I already smelled a rat because I know from experience that these drivers will deny you a ride when they find out where you are going.
I flew into Knoxville, Tennessee once and needed a ride about an hour away to Crossville. Four drivers cancelled my ride when I told them where I needed to go. The fourth, I offered $100 cash over the already $100 Über fare to take us. It was the only way we could get there.
So we waited at the gate just in case there was going to be a SNAFU. Just as I suspected, we waited for another 30 minutes for that email to come through. As I suspected, people started returning, saying that the link didn’t work, there weren’t enough drivers and they were refusing rides the nearly two hours to Newark.
Then people said they were calling the numbers provided and getting the circular run around that is “customer service” these days.
So I called an Alaska Airlines rep I have a direct number for, who usually picks up by the third ring. I have her number because as Mexican residents, I call to get a refund on the tourist tax we pay on tickets down there, which is about $40pp.
She tells me to just rent a car, submit receipts and they will reimburse me.
A side note: I have discovered that the further you get from Seattle, the less of Alaska Airlines ethos exists. They are usually top notch and have always been great to us. We try to use them whenever we can.
But that counter in Philly felt way more Spirit than Alaska. When people started to politely complain about the Lyft link not working, the agents started with head bobbing and swiveling, combined with that fucking Spirit attitude I see on the internet all the time.
As a problem solver, I just went forward to sort this out. No reason to get angry. Although plenty of people were.
We go to baggage claim and look for our bags. Nowhere to be seen. They are in the office…which isn’t manned. ¡A huevo!
We finally get our bags and head to the very off-site carvrental.
I rent a car, which is nearly $200 and go load my shit in the trunk.
My wife sits down and unknown to her, there’s a puddle in the thoughoughly soaked passenger seat. Someone at the agency left the window down during their thunderstorm.
Now fellas, think about how your wives would respond/behave in this situation.
Now how would she be on that following two hour drive?
So they get us another car, it starts raing and I can’t really inspect the thing. Except to make sure the seat was dry.
You know where this is going…
So after two hours of driving at night and in the rain, two things I am terrible at, we get to our hotel at the airport, around midnight, which was where we had paid for the night there already.
Insult to injury…in the morning I see the scrapes and dents all down the driver’s side. (In the end, when I returned the car, I pitched such a bitch that they didn’t ding me for it.)
We checken into the room, I made sure my wife was settled, then down to the “fitness center” in the hotel for an hour of cardio.
Trying to relax, chill and flush the cortisol wasn’t going to plan, so I tripled the tren.
Just kidding.
Obviously we made it, I competed, and now that I am home and relaxed, I am lighter, tighter and look the way I should have Saturday, which probably would have gotten me a 3rd place finish.
Shit happens. I get it. But guys, those of you who think about competing, let this be a lesson that you MUST be prepared, or at least capable of overcoming much more than the fatigue, hunger and short fuse that comes days before a show.
Some of you will remember my failed attempt to get to Pakistan when I was invited to compete in their inaugural Amatuer Olympia.
Same deal. Screwed airline issues, cancelled flights and inept staff. On that one we just flew back to Mexico from LAX because no amount of money or patience was going to resolve that SNAFU.
Maybe I sound like a magnet for this crap. Maybe I am and maybe some of you are blessed? I dunno? But I am used to these kind of things and deal with them as they come.
It just isn’t easy on a prep, loaded with test, tren and halo.
