New Zealand Powerlifting Federation Masters National Powerlifting Championships, ASB Showgrounds, Tāmaki Makaurau

Not quite the ending I wanted, but I still did well.

Woke early, got my day started and then went for a walk, followed by leaving Palmy at 9am, and traveling up behing Maunga Ruhapehu, visiting Gollums Pool, and arriving just after 5 to the accomodation and walking to the venue to check the scales. 

Slept like rotten garbage, 4hrs 19minutes according to my watch, but woke constantly, some idiot starting his Harley up next to my room at 2am, and onwards.  Finally woke at 4.40, and decided to check the weight which was a bit too heavy (600g or so).  So did the normal things and it didn't budge.  So, cranked the shower up to max hot, and let the sweating begin, which took the weight down quickly, followed by a little additional sweating to the venue and while waiting to weigh in. 

119.65kg 

Two other M2 120s weighed in as well.

Lifting started at 8am, but I was in the second flight, so did my walk, and slowly warmed up tp my final warmup at 220kg.  This moved fine.

Squat

1st: 240kg.  Three white lights, even though commentry online was concerned.  Heaviest opener I have done since geared days.

2nd: 255kg.  Three white lights, not so easy, but deep.

3rd: 260kg.  Three white lights.  Hard, but deep.  Heaviest weight I have squatted ever in competition.  

Happy with squats.  My competition lifted the NZ record at 269.  So 9kg ahead.  Bench warmups were relaxed and moved well.

Bench

1st: 175kg.  Three whites.

2nd: 182.5kg.  Two white lights, dont know what hit the right hand side with a yellow.  

3rd: 187.5kg.  Drifted towards my belly, and lost position.  No lift.

Not so happy here, and it basically helped undermine the entire day.  Bench didn't really feel great at the top end of prep, and it did not fire here.  Competition hit 172.5kg, so I was up by 1kg on the subtotal.  Deadlift warmups were ok but feeling the lack of sleep.

Deadlift

1st: 267.5kg.  Had attempted to move up a little before this but got told no (i think they might have been wrong really), but either way, this put me at 710 to the competitions 711.5.

2nd: 285.5kg.  NZ M2 record.  Three white lights.  Hard.  I jumped more than the competition, so this put me to 728kg to 726.5kg, so up 1.5kg.  

3rd.  Went to 293kg.  While competition went to 300.  In hindsight, I should ahve gone 300 as well.  I walked up and tugged it, and while this pushed him to a deadlift higher than he needed to win, he completed 295 so won with 736.5.  If I had pushed to 300, he may hve had to do that weight and potentially got it or not.  He likely had that, but hard to tell.  

So ended with a new PB of 728kg.

I also ended with a new squat PB, new comp max deadlift.  New WCPA M2 squat, deadlift and total record, plus new WCPA M1 Deadlift and Total record.  I now have 4/5 M1 records, including bench, deadlift, total, and Bench only, plus all of the WCPA M2 records squat, bench, deadlift and bench only.  

12 Overall Master, 2nd M2.

No real plan until next year.  

Might be working towards a coach.  I certainly needed another head to do these last calculations, which I haven't needed before.