APU provincials 2011

7/9... PB squat, PB total, PB Wilks... The Coles Notes version

- Fri a.m. 64.4kg, start drinking, 5 litres water and 2 coffees by 12:45pm. Stop liquids at this time.
- 5:30pm 65.7kg... crap crap crap
- still losing water quickly and easily, but start with some hot baths at this time
- 7:00pm 64.9kg... this is better...
- 8:15pm I get on meet scale... EEK! The meet scale weighs 200g heavier... good to know now
- 10:00pm back in a hot bath... I need to be 64.0 before I go to bed
- 10:30pm - 64.2
- 11:00pm - 63.9
Ah, time for sleep... which I did not really get... I slept crappy... was hot, but didn't want to cool off any because I knew I needed to sweat...
- 4:15am 63.3
- 5:30am - alarm goes off, I get my "roomie" in the shower so I can use the tub
- 5:45am - 63.2... 400g to go (on this scale, as the meet scale was 200g heavy)
- 6:30am - 62.9
At this point, I get dressed and ready to go... pack stuff up... I know skin hangs on to water and all I need to do is lose 100g to know I am "okay".
- 7:20am - 62.8 :)
- Weigh in around 8:40 - 63.0 on the nose! Glad I discovered that 200g difference...
- 10:30 meet starts...
Squats:
In the back, my last warm up was 135kg and my brother debated dropping my opener because it wasn't gorgeous... he changed his mind as it was only 5kg up...
1) 140kg - let my shoulders round forward a bit, but I am always cautious with my opener... it's the nerves...
2) 147.5kg - chest caved worse actually, but I had a bit more speed I think... it was okay... my brother was unsure of the next call at first, but I told him to make the decision... he knew I wanted 155 but I knew he's got experience behind him.
3) 155kg - probably my best squat of the meet, even though it was slower and I had a bit of a grind on the way up.

Bench:
Warm ups uneventful...
1) 72.5 - fast, easy, awesome... but I happened to notice the head ref was being super picky about his press command... that bar had better be dead stopped...
2) 77.5 - good, but not as fast as I hoped. My brother thought it was because it was a "hard touch" (meaning I had to fight the shirt a bit to touch). I thought he was going 80 my next lift... again, he knew my goal was to do 82.5, but I told him to make the call.
3) 82.5 - FAIL! I brought the bar down fast, but probably a bit too fast as I lost the groove right at the bottom, so when I got the press command I didn't have it in the groove, which meant it was way too hard... I just couldn't lock it out. I was bummed because I know I have this in me, I just rushed...

Deadlift:
Warm ups were good... we had a laugh that I would need to pull 178 to get the national deadlift total record (exact same pull I needed to win at Nationals, that I didn't budge) because my bench sucked... haha! My brother and his gf (because he went to ref a bit) knew I wanted the 400kg total... but I also told them I would pull whatever they called for me...
1) 150kg nothing wrong... not as fast as I wanted but not slow by any means
2) 157.5kg again, noting wrong, just felt heavier than it should have considering I've pulled it twice before
3) 167.5kg - this was for the 400 total... my brother initially put in 162.5, but changed it as he knew my total goal. I got it off the floor and thought, "good, now just be patient, and pop those hips"... but it wouldn't happen... I probably had this odd, confused look on my face because I kept thinking "why can't I finish this, I never get stuck"... because, I've never gotten weight off the floor that I couldn't finish... when the bar dipped towards the ground again, I looked down as I knew I was done... and just put the bar down :( I was bummed in a big way... my brother thinks I couldn't finish it because the bar was ever so slightly out in front of me, so I couldn't sit back like I normally can... I didn't have much for scratches or bruises on my legs, like typical, so it makes sense that I had the bar out in front for my first 2 as well... it would make sense that's why they felt heavier than expected too...

Anyway, 390kg total and a 418.8 Wilks... which meant, my very first Best Overall Female Lifter award :) I was very very happy about that!