Weigh-in and Meet recap…
On the day of weigh-in (Friday night) I had a whey shake for breakfast, half a shake and a few raw veggies for lunch, and my usual amount of coffee because obviously. So after a full day of work I drove an hour out of the way into the mountains to step on a scale. Hungry girls will do crazy things. The following song came on the radio on the way. It was glorious…
I think the last time I heard that it was 1992.
Weigh-in was a little anti-climactic. I got to the gym, and a guy said: “Go to that restroom, hop on the scale and when you come out, tell me what you weighed.” Really? Nobody’s going to verify that? I even wore cute panties. Damn. I didn’t say anything about it. I didn’t have the energy and wasn’t going to be the whiny new girl. Not me, not now.
I was just happy I made the weight I wanted and gained the pre-meet experience that I did for next time. When I might, you know, actually give a fuck.
I took one last leak and came in at 148.2 (148.75 is the cut off). Half a pound to spare, not too shabby for not much suffering (down 8 pounds from normal without doing drastic things). Time to eat.
I wanted to stop at every restaurant on the 1.5 hour ride home but I held out for bigger better things. I ended up with a 1/2 pound burger (the ‘burger’ is ground ribeye and tenderloin) covered in caramelized onions and horseradish sauce on a fresh-baked bun with poutine (hand-cut fries covered in gravy and melty cheese curd), a couple glasses of a delicious local porter, and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s. I was in fatgirl heaven. Slept like a baby.
3/29/2014 Saturday, meet day!
My Mr. got up early and made me breakfast (because he knows what’s good for him). A stack of bacon batter waffles with a pile of eggs on top and then syrup on all of that. And coffee in copious quantities.
We got to the gym with plenty of time to get my rack height settled and hear the rules briefing. This calmed my nerves since commands were the only thing I was fretting about. Everyone was SO NICE. In fact, I didn’t meet any assholes all day. How refreshing.
There were about 30 lifters and the meet lasted about 7 hours. Warm-ups were worked in between flights, so no one had to wait more than 15 minutes between warming up and their first attempt.
I don’t usually do too much warm-up, so I kept it that way. Two, maybe three sets of 3-5. Nothing heavy. Just to get my muscles feeling the pattern.
Anyways, the meet went awesome. I went 8 for 9 and exceeded my goal of a 600# total with 610.
Squats 185/225/240(fail) 6 white lights
This was my first time using a monolift. I was going to walk them out, but they convinced me to just use the mono after all. 185 was a smokeshow, and 225 felt strong. I decided I thought I had 240 in me. I hit my usual sticking point on the way up and didn’t think I was there too long, but the spotters did and they grabbed it. Those were my only 3 red lights all day. I’m pretty confident I could’ve locked it out on my own, but oh well. Next time, bitches.
Bench 105/125/130 9 white lights
All three attempts were solid. 130 was easy even with the pause. All the stars must have aligned or some shit. I had been wavering on whether or not I should go with my gym PR of 135, but I didn’t know if I could pause it long enough. The missed squat made me re-evaluate how important pr’s were in this meet for me and the answer was zero. The only goal I had was the total, so I stuck with it and went for white lights instead.
Deadlift 205/245/255 9 white lights
These follow the same story as bench. All very solid lifts and probably could’ve gone heavier on the 3rd. Currently this is the lift I’m the least confident with since we changed my technique a month or two ago. It’s definitely getting more comfortable but I’m still unsure of my capabilities. I think this lift is going to start really taking off for me this Spring.
The head judge came over for a chat while the big boys were doing their deadlift warm-ups. He asked how long I had been lifting and his eyes got real big when I told him “about 6 months”. He said I had a lot of potential and to keep at it (and he thought more lat work would do good things for my bench and DL). I took that as a giant compliment. He also thought I could have gone heavier on bench and DL for final attempts.
I was the only one in the women’s open division, so I won it. Got a trophy. There were 4 other women lifting, but all in the master’s. They were such nice ladies, hope I get to see them at more meets in the future.
I’m pretty thrilled with how everything went. Not bad for a first go. I do have videos of all my lifts, which I will try to edit into one video soon. I’d rather bomb out of a meet than try posting 9 individual videos here.
EDIT: youtube link
