Alea Lifting: Travels, Lifting, and Other Adventures
At the Arnold 2013…..
Had a good time, did well ( 5 for 6, just missed the last jerk at 60kg). Photos of me and other Arnold competitions are below. The link to watch my videos online at Dartfish.tv is here — apologies as the link was initially broken, so had to wait until they fixed it: http://bit.ly/WejcsJ …
Off to the Arnold 2013….
Later this week, I will be lifting at the Arnold, in beautiful Columbus, Ohio, USA. Website: http://www.arnoldsportsfestival.com Hard to explain this event, as this is technically a local meet, but with lifters from all over the world coming to have a go. Approx. 220 of us are lifting in a three day meet, with Masters…
Belgian senior champs – 25 Oct 2012
So last week Thursday in training, I hurt my lumbar region, slightly shifting a vertebrae (L4), which is not my usual ‘disc of choice’ (that would be L5), so spent a few uncomfortable days before seeing my osteo on this Wed. So I went to the Seniors, having been “repaired”, but told only to workout,…
Belgian Masters championships and the Grand Prix Adry
This competition is always fun, and well organised, and usually involves large beer as prizes, although not for the last two years 🙁 But I always find my way to the bar and a cold Pink Killer after lifting in Enghien! Anyway, this was my third competition in four weeks, which really is too much…
League Championships – Flemish and Wallonian – 2012
OK, the last couple of years we have done both league championships together, due to lack of resources and numbers. Today, we had roughly a total of 21 athletes, give or take, as I have not seen the final papers yet. One guest from Germany (hi, Susanne!) did very well, and Anna came close to…
World Masters championships 2012, Lviv, Ukraine – Sept 16th, 2012
Just back, won the silver for my category, had an accident at the end of my warm-up where I slipped with the bar at 35kg slamming into my left shin at speed. This was just two minutes before I started my first snatch attempt, so I give many thanks to the IWF medical team for…
International Ladies Open – Waregem, Belgium
This is also an International Men’s Masters, with 21 Masters men and 7 women of various ages (ladies are shown below) from a whole host of countries, including 22 year old Thithuy Nguyen from the Vietnamese Olympic team, as she is training now in France prior to the Games. There is a picture of the…
European Masters championships 2012, Lankaran, Azerbaijan
First of all, this was one of the most expensive trips I have taken for lifting, because of the logistics, being away from the office and technology, and other issues like trains and hotels to get to airplanes, to get to more trains, etc. My result was what I wanted, which was six good lifts…
Third and last Belgian national interclub – Auderghem
The last interclub of the national season is the end of the first half of the lifting year, except for those of us lifting in the European Masters in two weeks in Azerbaijan . The second half in the Fall is regional, national and worlds. It was a hard work week with exam grading and…
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