So, I completed my first powerlifting meet on Saturday. I am accustomed to being onstage so that wasn't a problem; I was just nervous about doing my lifts properly. In meets, you have to lift when the judge tells you to, and you can't rack it until they tell you to either, which is not what I'm used to. (note to self: start training like this once in a while)
The other competitors were very nice, helpful, and quite inspirational. There was a 70-year-old great grandmother, a diabetic with an insulin pump, a 50-something guy who'd just had his hip replaced 5 months ago, and a woman who had just completed chemo a few days before. Whatever aches and pains I might have had seemed insignificant compared to what they had been / were going through.
Anyway, I DID manage to successfully do all three lifts AND I set Washington State records for my division in bench press and deadlift. So now there's another meet in six weeks that I'm seriously considering...
