by Wayne23 » Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:45 am
2/25: 64-78 at Grambling. They're one of the teams that was tied for 1st going in. We hoped for a win but I knew it would be tough. We fell way behind early and never caught up. 17 for Sims, 11, 6 for Crow, but no one looked that good. 10 TOs, and that was about the only bright spot.
Rily banged up a hip but I think he'll be okay.
Ben Sims: I hate to lose but I have to say I played well. The team didn't though.
Coach Blake: So I get off work at 3:00 and I'm through for the day. I take my hour of exercise right after work. When I can get outside I walk/jog for the hour. When I can't I use the gym indoors and do laps around the basketball court. The outdoors is just a big open area. There are lots of guards, on the ground and in towers, but there's almost never any trouble. Once in a great while a fight breaks out but that's about it.
Guys talk to each other, just hang out, and a few of us do some kind of exercise, either jogging, walking, or calisthenics.
The gym has the hoops court and there's usually a game going on. I'd rather jog. I like the idea of aerobic exercise. I'm in good shape and I want to stay that way. Some guys do body building but there are no weights. All of that stuff was taken out of Walpole years ago. The authorities finally realized that allowing some of the most hardened men in society to build themselves monster bodies wasn't a great idea. But people find a way. The old Charles Atlas dynamic tension thing actually works, and guys use that and other forms of isometrics. They get well muscled but not like the old days when there were weights. Here too there's rarely trouble. A hard foul on the hoops court can lead to something but it usually breaks up on its own.
When the guards need to step in, either indoors or outdoors, there are consequences for the prisoners involved- time in solitary, loss of privileges, extra work... Guys don't want that so they usually avoid it by backing off when told to do so.
I'll talk about what I do with the rest of my day later on.