My first Powerlifting Competition!!!

Excitement was high, so consequently I had a terrible night's sleep on Friday night, and was up super early Saturday morning.  We left the house around 8:30 for the meet.  When we got there we had a "rules" meeting, and then warm-ups started for the first "flight."  Flights are by weight, all the meets I've been to have the lighter weights first, heavier second.  This was the opposite, so I was in Flight B, 148 weight class.

The meet started with Squats, and since I wasn't squatting, I had a loooong weight.  All of Flight A needed to squat (about 20 lifters) x 3 each, then all of Flight B (about 10 or 12 lifters x 3 each), then all of Flight A had to BENCH (same deal, x 3 each)!  Gah!  By the time it was time for