Alea Lifting: Travels, Lifting, and Other Adventures
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…
After five months, a happy outcome – European Master Games 2015, Nice, France
On 23 April, I had major surgery with a total hysterectomy. And on 3 October, after five months of rehab and recovery, I did what I love and lifted again in international competition. Got all six lifts with all white lights, a silver medal, and achieved my world qualifying total for next year. Very happy…
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…
National interclub series 2015, round one: Waregem. For me, start of lifting year 10.
First national interclub round (round one of three) for 2015 yesterday in Waregem, where they had new Eleiko bars and new big plastic training discs, so happy that the equipment was good for little old ladies like me. 😉 Got five for six, just a small mistake on my first snatch, which I redid and…
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…
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