MET-Rx World's Strongest Man 2006 Sanya, China 14th Sept - 23rd Sep 2006
Sept 11th
Jesse Marunde
My wife, Callie, and I arrived in Sanya, China at 2pm today after spending 3 long days in Beijing doing promotional work for Met-Rx Sports Nutrition. Met-Rx sponsors Marius and I and they are the title sponsor of the World's Strongest Man Competition. In Beijing they worked us for 14 hours each day, giving us no time to rest or recover from jet lag. In fact, I went from the airport after 17 hours of travelling straight to the first promo event.
Jesse and his wife Callie (World's Strongest Man™, IMG Media Ltd.)
Rather than be disgruntled about being ushered so rapidly all over Beijing I was simply impressed with the incredible work ethic of the Chinese people. The many individuals whom I had the pleasure of working with were so fast, so alert and showed no signs of fatigue though the mornings started for them before 7am and they didn't say goodnight to me till nearly 1am. Hunter Xia, the managing director for Met-Rx in China, took us from gym to gym to lunch and dinner meetings and finally to night clubs where all the while we were signing hundreds of autograph cards and posing for hundreds more photos. I am exhausted and in much need of sleep. What better place to relax than the host resort of the WSM competition, the Mangrove Tree Resort here in Sanya.
