Part 1-Blow by Blow as a Pro...

Hey Ladylifters!!
I would like to share the details that preceded the prejudging at 9am and the night show performance at 5pm on Saturday . It was a wild day that began at 3:30am. I slept for 2 hours and then woke to begin the day with a light meal of 3oz cold sirloin steak and equally cold 1/2 cup of white rice (yuck!... even by my unpicky standards).

At 4:30am, after a light resistance band upper body workout and light cardio (10 minute) treadmill walk. We drove the 4 miles to the Executive Inn host hotel to get a 3rd and 4th coat of tanning solution from Elise Firestone. It is so bizarre to think I was standing in a pop-up tent at 5:30am with only a plastic hair bonnet while her spray gun took me from a lighter shade of pale to beyond dark. I stood in the corner of the hotel room while Elise gave me coat after coat of Jan Tana... as guys and gals were standing only feet from me in their equally wonderful birthday suits drying in front of the fans. It was a circuit of spraying and drying that we all willfully shared to gain the competition tan that would show off our muscle groups in favorable light on stage only hours from now. It is rather amazing how modesty is lost for the greater good of the goal:-)
At 7:45am, I walked the block to the Victory Theater and our competitors briefing.

After a 30 minute briefing, at 8:30 pm, we were in the dressing room. Mary T's coat of Ultra Glaze, a 15 minute pump up and then we were on-stage for prejudging.
An unbelievably grueling 25 minutes of quarter turns and mandatory poses later... the heavyweight females were dripping with sweat and totally spent as we left the stage. For perspective, my longest prejudging round as an amateur was 5 minutes long.

Laura, Dave, Mary T, Mom and I stayed to watch a few more of the other weight classes then we regrouped to return to the Fairfield Inn to eat, recharge, change posing outfits and prep for the night show at 5pm.

I will return to chronical the night show
... so stay tuned!
Always,
Tracey