It's a CPO event. Ross put on a great Meet, Heavy Metal music blasting, The smell of Testosterone and Tiger balm, Big thickly muscled men milling around each other.
You could feel your adrenaline surging. Plates banging and barbells rattling, and that was just the warm up.
It was totally kickass!
There were lifters from Calgary, Winnipeg,Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Sherbrooke and Trois Rivieres.
Ottawa was there in the form of Judges , spotters and lifters.
I was excited to be there and be competing Raw (meaning no Bench Shirt).
I had some high hopes of hitting some big benches in the 500+ plus zone especially after my last 3 weeks of training.
I opened with a silly easy 501 lbs
Then I went for 530..and the shit show started. Over the last 3 weeks of pushing my benching limits I fried my nervous system.
I was an Inch away from locking out 530 and it might as well as been 1200lbs. I hit a wall and the show was over for me.
I saw some great lifts and some even greater lifters. Everyone was awesome and we all enjoyed each others lifting and each others company.
I have decided that the CPO will be my RAW competing federation of Choice.
After my lifting I grabbed a cold beer and sat back and watched some great deadlifting.
I got a kick ass trophy for my efforts. However the best gift was getting a crew of new friends who abviously love the IRON as much as I do.
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