Finally sorting out my competition right up
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So lets start at the beginning. I weighed in at 73.2kg in the morning after a little sweat in the car on the way there, then I enjoyed my lovely re-hydration salts and some Lucozade to get some carbs in me. Then when that had settled down I had a nice carb heavy protein shake, it was strange to see my bodies reaction to such high levels of sugar when my insulin sensitivity was so high.
They were doing the masters category first so I had around 2 - 2.5 hours between weigh in and first lift. This was ideal so I could get all of my nutrients in before starting anything tough.
Squat
Warmups started fine but the rack I was using got a little busy so I swapped to a different one being used by another bunch of chaps. Little did I know that the plates they were using were not standard 20kg plates. They were 25kg. This means that instead of my fourth warm up being 120kg, I jumped all the way from 100kg to 140kg :/, and instead of finishing on 140kg I finished on 160kg
. Bear in mind my opener was 155kg, this really messed things up. My first attempt was easy enough but it was a lot harder than it should have been, it also had a big affect on me mentally thinking that 140kg was really hard. My second attempt at 160kg was ok but just a little slow. In my opinion the warm ups are why I failed my 3rd attempt at 165kg, looking back and seeing how fast the 160kg warm up was probably would have put me on track for 170kg which sucks really. However it's not the end of the world because it was still a hefty comp pb
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Bench
Warm ups were fine as weights go but the bench I was on, instead of having the hooks outside where you grip, they were inside which made everything really weird. It was nothing really, I'd just rather not use that bench again
. First attempt was 90kg, no drama here but I didn't realise there was a rule that you need to have your feet flat on the floor and I normally have my heels up a bit. Weight went up easily so I went on to the next attempt as planned. 95kg was next, it was a little slow but not too bad so I thought I would go for 100kg. This is the only thing I am actually annoyed about throughout the entire comp. So I started the lift fine, the bar got down to my chest, I waited for the press command and pushed the weight off my chest with ease if a little slowly. Then I got cramp in my back, in my spinal erectors, once that happened the weight wasn't going anywhere unfortunately. I am disappointed about that because it was such an annoying thing that prevented me from getting a nice pb. Oh well
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Deadlift
So after the back cramp I spent a minute or two rolling my back and then got on with my warm ups which went fine, they felt nice and fast and were easy. My first attempt at 180kg was a little slow off the floor but easy, I'm putting that down to the time between my last warm up and my first attempt being a little short but I got the lift so it doesn't matter. My next a 190kg felt much better and wasn't too slow so I decided to go for 200kg. I'm also a little annoyed at this because I really want to pull 200kg! If you didn't guess I missed this one. It could have been anything but I think I was just a little tired :/.
I came second . . . out of two
. The other guy had a monster deadlift at 220kg and he beat me by 30kg, so we were evenly matched before that.
My final total was 445kg, and that works out to to be a wilks of 322.6, which isn't bad. I do feel like it could have gone better but I am not too disappointed really because I am still coming back from injury really, and it was very stressful doing it in the middle of my exams. I don't recommend doing it when you are going to be very stressed
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, it scares all of the nancies out of the gym 
, videos on the way