Nice! Good job.

Congrats! How's the day after? Sore at all?

@Alec Pretty sore. Basically swapped between sitting and standing every 30 minutes depending on if my butt or quads hurt more lmao. Went on 4 walks throughout the day. Lots of water and food. Slept in, bed early. Nothing today; I'll probably head back to the gym haha.

My session/flight for the meet lasted like 8h from weigh-in to the award ceremony and I probably maintained a caffeine + adrenaline high for 4h of that. The crash was pretty hard, glad I wasn't the one driving home.

Wow sounds like you left everything on the platform.

Did you place?

@DeeV it's funny. I thought I did. Heaviest lifts I've ever done and they all felt heavy. But I got my brother to record the lifts and after watching them a few times over, I don't think I'd say I struggled on any of them. I had a lot left in the tank.

I didn't end up placing. Got 4th out of 4 for my weight class, haha. Wasn't last overall which is nice at least. Would've needed another 30kg to have taken 3rd, so pretty close? Totalled 537.5 = 190/117.5/230

Yeah, I get that. I often will look back at RPE 9 videos and think I could have easily lifted 20-30 more (knowing full well that I couldn't).

It was your first meet and you totalled pretty well. Sounds like a successful meet.

@DeeV That's exactly it. Exited the lift feeling like a 9 - 9.5, reviewing video it looks like an 8. I knew I was playing a bit conservative for a first meet, just didn't think it was that conservative. Just means a better total for the next meet.