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So… I undershot the weigh in again and was 56.8. Dan showed up at the competition at 12:30 (my weigh in was at 1) and told me to go get lots of water and my food and wait for him to come back. Melanie Roach (who will be competing in the Olympics for the US) made a last minute decision to come down and compete in the 58kg weight class, so 15 minutes before my weigh in, realizing I wasn’t going to be able to compete with Melanie (links to her videos are bellow) for fun Dan decided it would be good practice for me to move up to the 63kg weight class, so I fit 2litres of water in me in a 15 minute time span and weighed in at 58.1kg allowing me to compete in the 63kg weight class-who new it was so hard to fit that much water in you-gave me a crazy headache!

Snatch warm-ups were… sporadic to say the least. Lots of lifters (58 and 63kg categories were lumped together-probably about 11 lifters), lots of misses (meaning lifters got 2 minutes between attempts) and the weight changers were so slow changing the weights. I did a 51kg warm-up that was beautiful, but then my two at 55kgs (we did 2 because lifters were taking so long) were UGLY-my last one I actually had to chase it. But My first attempt at 58kg was pretty nice.

Dan was pretty impressed I could put it together so well on the platform after such ugly warmup lifts, but then when it came to my second and third attempts…check out the video for yourself.

Not my finest moment. My third attempt I overcompensated and threw it over my head. I have done 61kgs before, just not today:{

Clean and jerk warm-ups went really well and I was happy with my first attempt at 76kg.

But my leg got real tired and just couldn’t support the 79kg clean on the second or third attempt-check out the left leg (the one that I tore the quad doing the jumping squats 5 weeks back) just give out at the bottom (I realize the shorted pull and everything else that went wrong with the lift didn’t help either J)

But the coolest part of the day was watching Melanie in the warmup area. Her two last attempts are bellow:

Melanies snatch:

Melanies Clean and Jerk:

But I think one of Melanies coaches comments at the end of the day pretty much summed it up. He asked how long I’d been training for, and when I said I started training in November he laughed and said don’t take this the wrong way, but it shows, you have moments were you look like an amazing lifter and then there are moments where your body has no clue whats going on, but don’t worry, everythings there, just takes time!

-Tomorrow Josh Competes at 12pm. Dan is going to teach me how to schedule all the warmup lifts and coach somebody through a competition.

Kel