Friday morning began with at 4am sit up straight, wide awake, lets go workout, kind of start.
Mom Mary T and I navigated the 1.1 miles to Bob's (Awesome) Gym... 24 hour facility. We each had a fantastic early morning workout and then returned to raid the breakfast bar of hard boiled eggs and coffee:-)
A shower and full body shave to prep for the tanning session to come later in the day was the task at hand. At 10 am we headed toward the Executive Inn Hotel where the polygraph and urinalysis was to take place. My adrenaline and nerves kicked in as they always do.... what if there is a false positive and I am disqualified and banned from competing for 7 years? It just kept racing thru my mind... until I grabbed hold of it and tossed it to the side like an old rag doll. Enough already, lets do this and move on was my mindset...
I signed in and gave my contribution for the urinalysis labs and then weighed in at 134.7... forever a heavyweight ~ confirmed once again:-) FYI: 118 and below is a lightweight. Yep, I think the last time I saw 118 was in the 7th grade!
On to the polygraph room... all I could think was to keep my mind clear, answer honestly with no sweaty palms... not sure why I though that would make a difference but I had to dwell on something that didn't have me biting my nails down to the cuticles:-)
Two iterations thru of 10 questions like:
Is your name Tracey?
Have you ever taken and failed a polygraph test in the past?
Have you ever taken any of the substances on the WNBF documented banned substance list since Aug 1, 2001?
Have you ever taken anabolic steriods?
Have you taken any drugs to assist you in deceiving or illegally passing this polygraph test?
Do you think I am going to ask you a question that you cannot answer ?
Are you a natural bodybuilder??
And on he went... thank goodness he didn't ask me to guess his weight... I was never good at those carnival games so I would have failed miserably.
After 25 minutes... he unhooked my apparatus and said, "You are all set and good luck tomorrow!"
What a relief to have that done and over with!
So this evening holds a competitors meeting and my tanning session to get nice and dark~dark~dark.... to really show off the muscle definition and symmetry. Wahoo!!
More from Indiana tomorrow on competition day...
Love,
Trace
2 comments:
Hey girl, thanks for sharing and inviting all of us to your site...even us Navy folks ;>. You are awesome and an inspiration to all of us 40 somethings!! My (our) thoughts are with you and winning is in your attitude and spirit...no award is needed!
Ciao Bella!!
Linda (Sarver)
Linda,
Thank you for the grand words of support... and for blogging with me!
I feel like a winner because I have friends like you to spike, set and serve with. Hey, we still owe each other that coffee date... I haven't forgotten so when I get back, we are
Starbuck's bound. I'll buy the tiramisu:-)
Ciao Bella Donna,
Trace
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