58kg Western Canadian Champion :)

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Kelly

So here’s the scoop:

Flew in to Edmonton yesterday,

Lost 1 kg on the plane, ended up weighing in at 57.02 (I needed to be under 58.0 so had lots of room to spare).

First attempt snatch was a beautiful 55kg.  Second attempt was 58kg and I thought I did it, but they called it unsucessful (apparently my left elbow was slow locking out). But it was kind of funny because when they called it unsucessful I threw the bar down and the clamps broke so they had to replace them which bought me some time before my third attempt which was a very pretty and sucessful 58kg (a new competition PB)

Clean and Jerks were pretty ugly (ribs sinking in and back not staying tight), but had three sucessful lifts at 70kg, 75kg, 78kgs (again a new Personal Best)

So I totaled 135 which was good enough to win the 58kg weight class and qualify for nationals which are in Quebec May 18th.  So all and all a pretty good day!

I text messaged my coach (who couldnt come because BC weightlifting has no money and he would have had to take time off work and pay his own way) and his reply was:  congrats, I’m proud of you, see you Monday night at SFU-we got some work to do before nationals!

So crossfit will need to wait a little while longer…

But I could definitely get used to this competiting thing.  Never had an andreline rush quite like it!

After the Port Alberni competition I wasnt hungry at all.  But now Its like food is going right through me and I can’t stop eating!

and thats that!  Got a banquet to go to tonight and then I fly home at 11am tomorrow.

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  • Paul Richardson

    Congrats Kelly!, any piccies or movies?

    Cunning plan on breaking the equipment to give yourself more time :)

  • Kim

    Congrats Kelly! Good job!

    btw what is the structure of O-lifting competition? At the fullest extent do you get to represent Canada in the Olympics?

    Good luck at Nationals!

    k

  • Kim

    btw How did it go ” break’n in” the singlet? :)

  • http://kellyfrankson.com Kelly

    I hate to say it, but i kind of liked lifting in the singlet.

    as for the structure of O-lifting competitions, there is a technical meeting the night before where it is declared what weight you are going to lift at. the morning of your competition, you then weigh in 2 hrs before your scheduled start time. if you are within your weight class you compete, if not you have an hour to either bring your weight up or down to make your weight class. So since It was declared at the technical meeting last night that I was representing BC in the 58kg weight class I needed to weigh between 53.1kg to 58.0kg.

    Once the competition starts, Snatch is the first lift. The order of the lifters is determined by the starting weights, so I did not even start warming up until the 3rd lifter attempted there first lift because my first lift was the 17th lift of the session. You have 3 attempts at the snatch. If you miss the first attempt you have a choice to either re-due the weight or increase it, but you can never go down in weight. If there is no one after you, you have a mimimum of 2 minutes between attempts, however if there are other lifters doing weights inbetween your attempts, then you have 1 minute from the time the bar is re-set.

    Once everyone is done Snatches, there is a 10 minute intermission and then the same process happens for clean and jerks.

  • http://www.sarenasworld.blogspot.com sarena

    Yeah, congrats that is awesome!!

  • http://www.stephenfung.net Stephen

    All superheroes have their uniforms =)

    Congrats! ;)

  • http://www.sarenasworld.blogspot.com sarena

    sent a buddy your way! she sent you mail, Rachel!

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  • Paul

    awesome lift kelly

    Tracey owen and rylee and I are really excited for you. we told owen that you won for lifting heavy weights and he went in to his slow motion lifting routine like the 649 commercial with the wrestlers.

    quote owen “heavy”

    good luck with the training fo nationals.

  • http://www.sarenasworld.blogspot.com sarena

    wanna see the pics and vids!! Please post em!

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  • Max

    Nice job Kelly, that’s badass.

    Looks like you’ll be doing your nationals on my birthday =)

  • http://Kellyfrankson.com Kelly

    Videos are to come. I’ll post some videos of some of the other top lifters later today but videos of me will have to wait until I get the competition CD. But rest assured they will come!

    kel

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  • http://crossfitevolution.com Leo Soubbotine

    Way to go Kelly!
    Awesome!