Yesteday I competed at the USA Powerlifting Minnesota State
Championship in both the masters and 100 kilo (220 pound) open
divisions. In spite of my upper back problem and a shitty training
cycle, I had a pretty good meet. I did an easy triple with 485 in the
squat a couple of weeks ago but never went heavier than 275 because of
my back after that. But, it was the deadlift that suffered the most
as even 225 was too much pain to pull in the weeks heading into the
meet.
When I got to the venue yesterday, I was 100.2 kilos, which would have
put me in the 242s (110 kilo class) but I peed and spit a couple of
times and weighed in 15 minutes later right on the nuts at 100 kilos.
That made me properly weighted for the competition (I added this
sentence to make this on topic for rec.scuba:-).
I opened up the squats at 227.5 kilos (501.5 pounds) and got that
easy. I then jumped to 245 (540 pounds) and again got that easy. For
my third, I went to 255 (562 pounds) and struggled a bit to get it out
of the racks. I was thinking I should have them drop the rack height
to 6 instead of 7 but I didn't and it cost me. I had trouble setting
up and didn't get my feet as wide as I normally do. Plus, I was
tipping forward a little when I got the squat command. I went down
with the weight and I went forward as I was coming up and the weight
stalled about half way up for no lift.
In the bench, I opened at 147.5 kilos (325 pounds) and got that easy.
I then jumped to 152.5 (336 pounds) for my second for another 3 white
lights. We went 157.5 for my third. Well, that was all I had in me
that day and I ground that out for 2 whites and a good lift. I don't
know what I got called for by the one judge but I did hit the upright
but it didn't aid me in any way. If anything, it made it harder.
So I was at 402.5 kilos at sub total heading into the deadlifts. Again
in warm ups, 225 hurt like hell as did 275. I did 315 for a single as
well as 365 and 405. The 405 wasn't too bad, pain wise, and I felt a
little more confident in doing my opener at 202.5 kilos (446 pounds),
which is a pretty low opener for me normally. I pulled that on my
first attempt rather easily but I hurt big time locking out. Took 210
(463 pounds) with the same result. I then jumped to 217.5 (480
pounds) for my third attempt. Well, I gutted that out just like my
third attempt bench with the crowd again cheering me on and locked it
out for a good lift.
I ended up with a 620 (1366.5 pound) total and went 8 for 9 in my
attempts. I took silver in the Masters I Powerlifting class, silver
in the Masters I Bench class and bronze in the 100 Kilo Open
Powerlifting class. Quite the hardware hog:-)
I'm a real hurting unit today. It would be nice to take a nice long
dive on a shallow reef in the Keys right now.
2007 MN State Championships 
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