To compete or not to compete…….
Woke up with a 103 temp and throwing up like crazy. Long week of trips to the hosiptal for tests and tons of blood work. Cholesterol and blood pressure up and iron low. Not good conditions for lifting! But normal in the life of a renal patient! Just trying to stay strong mentally and stay positive. I don’t care what anyone says. Whenever I am not able to lift it is so much harder to get and stay healthy. I know it doesn’t make since to most doctors, but I know most of you know what I mean.
Anyway have a competition in Pittsburgh Saturday. Haven’t had a regular workout week in weeks. Still lifting strong when I do get in the gym, just not pushing it. Trying to decide about my competition Saturday. It’s in Pittsburgh. I competed Novice in my first power lifting competition last month. I did really well and scored high enough for Nationals and placed high enough for Worlds but cannot compete in Worlds as a Novice. I have to do at least one meet as Master and this is the only meet I can attend. So….. think I’m just gonna go and see what the competition is like and if I can get a score and place without pushing it. But if I’m lagging in score I can always pull a half way decent deadlift out of my butt. It is by far my best event and I have never missed a weight!
We’ll see…………
April 21, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Wow, you are an inspiration to me. Competing w/ a disease is such an accomplishment, stay strong! I hope you decided to compete.