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Date Posted: 11:11:03 02/02/03 Sun
Author: "The Peace Maker" Derrick Anderson
Subject: The morning after the long night...

~ Derrick is at a weight room in Stearns, Ky. It is at his old high school. He is looking around the white walls with the mirrors on them and observing the new improved equipment. It is only 6:30am and being here this early reminds him of the old days. He then starts having flashbacks of his high school wrestling days… ~

**It was his 3rd year of starting but he was only a sophomore. It was 3 weeks before the district tournament. He was in the best shape of his life. He was wrestling a match in Tennessee when he hit a headlock on this huge heavyweight. He pulled the guy over his back instead of going to the side. The guy hit the mat and the whole gym shook. The crowd went on their feet and started cheering for Derrick Anderson was pinning the guy. “TWEET” The ref blew the whistle and then slapped the mat. The whole place erupted in a cheering frenzy. Derrick stood up and the ref raised his hand in victory. Then he was shaking hands with the guy he had just beaten when his head just fell over to one side. He couldn’t pick it back or straighten his head. Something was wrong. They started rubbing ice packs on the muscle but it didn’t help. He had to skip his next match. And the next 2 weeks he also had to miss. He didn’t wrestle for two weeks. And then it was the day for the district tournament. He got ready to wrestle his first match, for the rehab had paid off.**

~ Derrick then walks over to the incline dumbbell press. He grabs his weights and starts working out. You can hear the high-pitched “CLING” when the weights touched above his head. After he was finished his reps with the dumbbells he sat them down in the floor and set in the chair for a minute. And began to recall the rest of the district tournament. ~

**This was his first match in 2 weeks. Usually if a person is out for more than a week, before a large tournament, they don’t do to well. But Derrick was motivated. He was going to make it to the finals. For he, Derrick Anderson, had never been in a finals match in his life. But today was different. His first match was against a guy that he had never beaten before. But this time the outcome was different. Derrick came to wrestle and they went into overtime before Derrick pinned him. Then his before his second match he was in the lobby getting a drink of water when one of his opponents walked up to him. Extended his hand and spoke, “Derrick, I’ll see you in the finals tonight.” Then he turned and went into the stands. Derrick still had another match to win before he could be in the finals. He walked into the gym was started warming up for his 2nd match of the day.**

~ Derrick then stood up and went to the bench press. He observed the new benches with their thick padding. Derrick just shook his head because he hates benches with thick padding but he needed to get in his work out. So he sets the weights up and then begins to bench. He was going with lighter weight because he had no spotter. The barbell was bouncing off of his chest leaving red marks everywhere the bar touched. He then put up the bar and set up and rubbed his chest noticing the marks. He then sees the old wrestling mats and walks into the dark room. Looking at the mats he recalls his 2nd match at the district tournament… ~

**The match started and Derrick quickly took the upper hand and put the guy on his back. The guy rolled out of the move, and Derrick just sat back and waited for his opponent to make his first mistake. It didn’t take long until the guy made his first, and last, mistake. He fell for a trap the Derrick had set up. There is one simple rule in Wrestling, never, ever, reach back. The guy had broken the simple rule and grabbed Derrick’s leg, which was behind his shoulders. As soon as he did Derrick trapped the guys arm and sit down and then turned it and hit one of the most painful moves in wrestling, the surfboard. The guy stayed in the surfboard the rest of the first period. Then when the ref blew the whistle for the next period the guy didn’t get up off the mat. Derrick had severally made the guy pay for his mistake by tearing out the guys shoulder. It was an accident but it happens. Derrick won the match by forfeit. Derrick was looking around the gym and he seen the heavy weight that told him he would see him in the finals. The guy was smiling and nodded at Derrick. Derrick was now just about 30 minutes from his first finals match.**

~ Derrick then started doing push-ups in the dark room on the wrestling mat. The feel of the mat made him remember the rest of the night… ~

**The lights went out in the gym and the whole place went crazy. Derrick was wearing his jacket with the hood of it over his head with his headgear on under it. He was jogging in place when the music started playing. Lights started flashing and going in circles and his name was called. He came jogging for the only mat that was open. It was right in the center of the gym. He walked across the mat and waited for his opponent. Then his name was called and he walked across the mat and they shook hands. Then they went their separate ways and waited until it was time for them to wrestle.**

~ Derrick then seen a poster on the wall. It read, “Pain is temporary, but pride, it last forever.” Derrick agreed with the poster. Because he was proud of himself for he had made it from amateur wrestling to the professional level. It seemed like Derrick could hear his old coach’s voice still echoing in the empty room. Derrick and his coach took it hard on each other. They had been known to break each other’s noses and give black eyes. But it was all so that Derrick could be ready to shine when his time came. ~

**Derrick thought to himself minutes before the final match of the night that he was going to the regional tournament the next week no matter what the outcome of this match. If you get in the top 4 at district then you will advance to the next round of the tournament. And the worst that Derrick could do now was 2nd place. The match started and as fast as it started it was over. The match only lasted 45 seconds. Derrick had been called pinned because he rolled across his back. It was a cheap call by the ref but Derrick didn’t argue much because he knew that he was going to the regional tournament the next week. Since he didn’t have to wrestle very long in his last match he would be well rested and ready for what laid before him.**

~ Derrick then walked to the other side of the dark room and opened the doors. The doors went outside to the high school track. Derrick could remember running around the track at practice. He then decided to go for a jog. He took off and around the track he went. He decided he would do a mile although he was out side in jogging pants and no shirt. The temperature was only like 50º outside. But it would take Derrick just a few minutes to run a mile now opposed to his high school days. Derrick was a lot more athletic at this point in his life. Derrick finished running his mile and then walked into the building. Derrick wasn’t even breathing hard. He walked into the gym and decided to continue his workout. You could hear the weights clanging around as Derrick finished his workout. ~

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