It's not all that hard on a reporter but when it comes to the athletes and coaches- that's another ballgame.
Here's a little trade secret, you probably won't see many of us carrying a pen and notebook around early in a wrestling match like Saturday as 15 teams competed in the Waterford Lancer Invitational.
Reporters generally show for some of the semfinals and the championship matches, we get to miss the other nine or 10 hours of actual competition and more than that for those who organize these large scale events.
Waterford's tournament actually started at 7:30 a.m. when the first people arrived to begin the set up process, the first match was at 10:30 a.m., the last one around 9:15 p.m.
"It's tough on everybody, it's draining," Ledyard coach Steve Bilheimer agreed. "This sport is a draining sport, you have have to have a lot of endurance, a lot of stamina to watch it, to do it, and to coach it."
But it can be pretty exciting too such as Saturday when Waterford eeked out a one-point win over Southington that went down to that final match before it was decided.
Just as an aside, look for the high school notebooks in the Norwich Bulletin this winter. The basketball notebooks are scheduled to appear on Monday and the other winter sports on Friday. It's just more information for you from your information center.