2008 CBBF World Qualifier

i'm not dead.

in a way i both can believe i let two months pass without an update and at the same time i can't believe it.

first and foremost how things went in winnipeg. the flight was uneventful and i got into my hotel room without incident. all the amenities that i had pre-requested were in place. the first order of business was unpack all my food and store it in the refridgerator and heat up a meal in the microwave. the next order of business was to rest... and boy did i. i proceeded to do nothing but alternate between sleeping and eating. in fact i didn't actually open my hotel room door until about 5:00 pm thursday evening.

i was actually alarmed at this point about how much i was sleeping and i decided that a walk around the hotel was in order. it really wasn't much of a walk. i think i went down to the ground floor, walked down one hallway, took the next elevator back to my room and passed back out in the bed. the good news was that i dropped about 5lbs of water that week leading up to the show. the not so good news... i easily could have stood to lose 2 or 3 more.

it was probably fair to say that i was of the competitors who carried the most mass in my class and i think i also have a more symmetrical line. however this is bodybuilding and in bodybuilding competitors are also required to be conditioned. and on the day of the show i was simply not the most conditioned athlete. so i finished 3rd. it was a respectable placing for my first time at the national level. of course, if you know me any at all you do know that i am never satisfied with second, (or in this case third) best.

i know that i have the ability to be more conditioned than i was, although i did do the best that i could given all the crap i went through to get to winnipeg. but the thing is, NOBODY ever has an easy road to the stage... so as much as that was a reality and a factor in my placing. i really shouldn't have let it be.

that being said i feel that i am not done. i have not yet stepped onto the national level stage as i know i can, as i know i wanted to. so my goal now is to prepare for the next show. the 2009 CBBF World Qualifier. the show date is march 21, 2009 and it will be in quebec... a little bit closer to home.

i've made some changes for the 2009 run, which i will discuss in later posts. i also have a suprise i want to share with you. but first to end the 2008 wrap up... with pics!