Eighth Day on the Ground: A Day of Rest - A Dad's Diary - August 29th, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

Today was an all-important day of rest. Ezra tends to jump really well when he has two full days of rest. So that’s what we did. This would have been the 100m Prelim day, with the final being 8/30…. We made the tough decision to scratch from the 100m a few weeks ago to give him the best chance to medal in the high jump. We’ll come back to the 100m in the future. I know he can run with the big boys. He can do all three. But he honestly hasn’t been training too much for the 100m either… and we also have further leg alignment and dialing in to do. We know he’s just scratching the surface of what the blade can do for him. So we sit this one out, but we’ll be back!

We mostly just sat around the lobby in the US building and watched the Games. Sam Grewe was with us much of the day and was trying to do work on the table behind us. We all grabbed a quick dinner so we could get back to watch some the bigger games the US was playing that evening. We watched the men’s rugby team fall to a fast, talented Great Britain team in the gold medal match. It was a close one, but we couldn’t hold on. We watched teammates Hunter, Jarryd, and Jonathan all qualify for the 100M finals in the below knee classification. Good stuff!

And we called it a night by 9pm or so. Pretty mellow. Pretty chill.

Definitely a relatively boring day, but that’s exactly what Ezra needed.

Photos of the guys in the lounge and my friend Toyoda the security guard!

Clayton