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A little lie-down… 22 Nov – Bench press single
Did one more bench press competition in November, got a little better at it. Now on two months of what my coach kindly calls “active rest”, looking forward to the new year. Happy Holidays!
One more, just to be sure… 😉 Belgian Senior Championships 2015, Seraing (Liege)
I made it back to fitness for the European Master Games, as I wanted. But then, I said, what the heck, let’s do the national seniors as I am already fit and can see all my national colleagues. It was for fun, so why not? So I lifted, got five for six [missed one was…
Lying down on the job: Alea takes up bench press
To support my teammate Wolf, I signed in for the Open VGPF single bench press championship on 27 Sept for the fun of it – and won my category. Go figure, lying down on the job comes in handy!
European Masters 2015 – Bangor, Wales
If you read the previous post at the end of March, you may see a comment that I did not feel so good. Here is a brief summary of the story from there: With some intestinal challenges and what I felt was a yeast infection, I went twice to the doctors in two weeks in…
National interclub series 2015: round two, Seraing (Liege)
Lesser turnout today, maybe due to the weather, the football or the fact it is the week before the Easter holidays…? Anyway, I was not that well this week, so I did good with 5/6 and a total close to the one of three weeks ago. Only six women lifting, and only three plateaus this…
Belgian senior national championships, 13 Dec, Zaventem
At the sports hall of my club’s home city, we hosted the National seniors yesterday. At the age of 50, I still qualify as a senior in Belgium as we (currently) have no minima for cadets and women for the national due to lack of numbers. That may change as we had 14 women sign-in…
Flemish and Wallonian regional champs, 17 Oct, La Louviere, Belgium
Pepto-Bismol had a phrase several years ago: The last mile is the longest. Well, this week, and this day in particular, ran into overtime. Up now early Sunday morning due to an aching body and overactive sinuses. Been on anti-bacterials since Tuesday, not a good way to lift, really takes it out of you! Set…
Second Interclub 2014 – Crossfit Da Vinci
As I write this, the competition is still going on, but I came home early to now go see my new granddaughter. I got there at 10:45 for an 11:30 weigh-in (for the first two plateaus of four in total). The third plateau was just starting a bit before 16:45. I do not know what…
First Belgian interclub 2014 – Seraing
I knew this would be chaos, as it was the first one of the year and we had 43 athletes lifting. I did not get the mail to me that moved weigh-in up an hour, but since I always arrive early, I did get there in time. But behind quite a queue of semi-naked men…