Iron Mind Weightlifting Meet, 2009
Leslie, Chris, and I just (well … Saturday) got back from the Iron Mind Weightlifting meet at Iron Works Gym in Creswell, OR.
It was hard going getting there. It was crazy icy between Salem and Eugene. I think we counted 6 semi trucks stalled, jack knifed, or otherwise out of order on the side of the road. Sadly, there were a few other accidents we saw that looked pretty bad. One guys pickup truck was demolished, with the passenger side roof crunched down completely.
We didn’t think it was going to be that nasty when we left home, but we were clearly wrong. At any rate, we got there safe (albeit in about nearly double the time it would normally take us).
To top it off, the pancake place we normally eat at was closed. No pancakes! Chris and I decided this would be our test case to see how dependent upon pancakes we are before a meet. Read on and find out.
Leslie needs no pancakes after weigh in (if this case study has any relevance). Not only did she win first place in the 63′s, but she broke personal bests in both lifts! To top it off, she wasn’t even “supposed” to be in the 63′s. She’d been wanting to diet down to them, but has been so busy with school that she was hanging out pretty comfortably in the 69′s. She was shocked when she got on the scale, and it read 63 on the nose.
Chris did well, too, hitting an 80k, and a 105k for a 185 total. He feels he could have done better, but I think he did good, considering the lack of pancakes!
He was head to head with Sam McLean in the 94′s all the way, and had to make his last clean and jerk to win it. I’ve never seen him jerk a 105 in the gym, yet. But, he stepped onto the platform, cleaned it like it was a sack of pillows, and blasted it over head for 3 white lights. Killed it, and won his weight class.
He’s continually getting stronger and more technically proficient, and I see him hitting 90 and 115 at the State meet in June. Maybe he doesn’t need pancakes either.
I missed everything but my openers. I need my pancakes. In fact, I was opening at 105 in the clean and jerk. But, in the warm up room I missed 100k not once, but twice! Somehow I made the 105k on the platform which gave me a 180 total (5k less than last contest). Am I a carb-o-holic? Without pancakes, I’m a half a man.
It was a fun meet. Too bad the weather didn’t allow more of the usual suspects of Oregon weightlifting to make it. But, we had a good time.
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With a sample size of n = 2 and control n = 1, we conclude that dependence on pancakes is highly variable from one athlete to another.