Starting at eDiets at my highest weight, I weighed 253 pounds. That's a lot of weight to carry, and it felt miserable. Now soooo many years later, that number has a new meaning, and who could imagine how incredible it feels?!
Below is my report from my very first USA Powerlifting Federation meet. It took place on Saturday April 18, 2009 in Orlando Florida. Crazy when I think about where I was, to half marathoner, and now to powerlifter.and now...record holding powerlifter?! Crazyness! It's happening, and yet I can still hardly even believe it! 253lbs has new meaning, now :)
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I didn't sleep at all the night before - typical.
30 lifters total, 7 of them (including me) were women.
Turns out that I'm the FIRST lifter of the day, which has
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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
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