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Does anyone else have a child who competes at a high level in a sport? I'd like a general moaning thread!!

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isthisanacidtest · 21/07/2014 20:20

Like today. She was supposed to be tidying up and hoovering but disappeared off to train all day and hasn't come home yet.

She is dedicated. I'm very proud of her. But ....

the early starts

the mountains of food

the constant kit to wash

the running here there and everywhere

the whole family getting put on hold to the god of sport

Sometimes it just gets a bit depressing and hard work. For me, not her! She loves it Grin

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isthisanacidtest · 21/07/2014 20:40

I will get soda crystals - I saw them in our local discount shite shop yesterday - thanks for that!

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500smiles · 21/07/2014 20:40

Not sport but dancing, so we don't even have the advantage of enjoying the outdoors occasionally as competitions are in stuffy halls / theatres

Her costumes cost more than the dress I wore to get married in.

I could retrain as a hair stylist / make up artist from all the practise I have had on her.

Having to be up at 5am or spend a fortune on hotels as events usually start at 8am on weekends.

BitchyVstheUFOs · 21/07/2014 20:39

Only thing that I found have worked for stinky kit is soda crystals in the wash. Careful because if you add to the machine drawer and put tooo much in the machine vomits bubbles Hmm Does work well though ex was involved in much sport it was essential

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isthisanacidtest · 21/07/2014 20:38

Oh yes I've done that - just write it down like I told you at 11pm or she does it on the bus or something.

Making packed lunches on the weekend. I HATE making packed lunches Mon-Fri and training means she needs monster ones on the weekends as well.

Also. Training will be finished at 8 mum can you pick me up. I'm dutifully there at 8 like a tit outside waiting. And she comes sauntering out at 8.25 no rush dawdle dawdle

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KatyMac · 21/07/2014 20:38

me too

The washing

The smell

The early starts (after late finishes)

The lack of weekends

The food, the worrying about food, the cost of the food (that has to be transportable over several days without sight of a fridge)

The lack of time at home to do basic stuff (tidying room, homework, eating, sleeping, having a birthday party)

God yes the being stuck in one place because it costs too much in time/petrol to come home & go back again

The cost of all the kit (next years list is over £500)

& she doesn't do any real 'sport'

BitchyVstheUFOs · 21/07/2014 20:37

" Pagwatch Mon 21-Jul-14 20:31:44

Not having a free fucking weekend ever ...."

Yes Pag This!

Pagwatch · 21/07/2014 20:36

Yy
Also helping her do her homework at 10.00 pm after so many hours training she barely knows her name or putting her to bed knowing she'll have to get up at 6.0 to do it .

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isthisanacidtest · 21/07/2014 20:35

stinking kit.. I got conned by some expensive shoite in Tesco that said it would wash the smell out, because of course, it all has to be washed at 30 degrees which isn't enough to get out stinky sweaty smells especially when the bottom half is commando in the shorts (YUKK). It was expensive. And crap.

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isthisanacidtest · 21/07/2014 20:33

Pagwatch - yep that too.

And the one weekend you think you have free she "made a mistake" and the training you thought was local is actually at that place 2 hours away

that actually happened about a month ago

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BitchyVstheUFOs · 21/07/2014 20:31

Oh god and the kit he has stinks, badly and it has to be aired weekly as it can't be washed. The dining room is unuseable, if you could find it from under the exercise ball, mat, skipping rope, medicine ball, resistance bands etc etc

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isthisanacidtest · 21/07/2014 20:31

It sucks doesn't it Bitchy?

I'm very proud of her - but oh my dear goodness it is soul sucking.

Drive to training session 2 hours away. Session lasts 4 hours so no point to go home. So stuck in random place for ages with nothing to do.

Thank God for MN and tablet!

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Pagwatch · 21/07/2014 20:31

Not having a free fucking weekend ever ....

BitchyVstheUFOs · 21/07/2014 20:30

Weekly comps all over half the fecking country.

Training that drags on and on disclaimer I bore easily and do not have the balance of stuff to do right yet

training camps which hold you captive on site

Ds is not a high level competitor but loves his sport and wants to be a high level sport competitor.