CHALKED UP: Pittsburgh Barbell Meet
Gracie Rice discusses diet and women in weight lifting in this week’s blog.
Welcome back to Chalked Up. This week’s blog is all about my meet on Saturday, January 15th.
On Friday, most of us arrived at Pitt around 3:30, and the rest of the team later on. We had a team dinner and then got to bed early so we were ready to compete the next day.
I woke up around 7:30 a.m. to be ready to head to my weigh-ins at 9:00 a.m. Afterwards, we ate breakfast and waited till 11, when we could start warming up.
I was about 30 out for snacthes so I had to wait a little longer to start my warm ups. When it was finally time to warm up, I started with an empty barbell. After that, I did 30kg, 35kg,37kg,39kg,41kg,43kg, and then 46kg.
When it was finally time for my first attempt, I sat beside the platform till the weight was loaded. I hit my opener at 48kg, my second attempt at 50kg, and my last attempt at 52kg, which was a meet PR and tied my snatch PR.
After snatches, we waited a couple minutes until it was time to begin clean and jerks. When we finally started warming up, I was about 30 out again.
I started with an empty barbell for clean and jerks as well. After empty barbell I hit 35kg, 40kg, 45kg, 50kg, 53kg, 56kg, 58kg, and then 61kg.
After hitting my last warm up I sat beside the platform, again waiting till the weight was loaded. I hit my opener at 63kg and my second attempt at 65kg. I then missed my third attempt at 68kg.
I ended up going five for six, placing first, and being awarded the Best Lifter award in my session. Although I feel I could have easily fixed my jerk at 68kg, I was happy with my performance at this meet.
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