Well everyone. My first show is over and it was an experience. I came in fourth so I walked away with a trophy and qualified for which shows???That i have to check on again. Let me tell you about it a little about my first time experience. The place was unbelievably hot. It was the biggest turnout they ever had for this show. The toughest competition. I was in the figure short, which was the thoughest class, the best girls, 11 of them. I was told there was masters but there wasnt, so at 37 i was competing against all but one young girls. I was a little depressed, i looked forward to competing just against women in my age group also. Anyway, there was one bathroom in the place for both guys and girls, no door on the stall and it ended up clogging. By the way, this was in some catholic high school. They had ONE mirror for all of us downstairs in the pit. No lighter weights to pump with, just heavy ones, basically for the guys. It was unbelievable, by the time i hit stage the first time, i had been sweating to death for over an hour. Never got to pump except for some push ups i did. Never got to really fix my makeup or do my hair the way i wanted and when i was on stage i could feel the sweat dripping down my head and neck. It was disgusting. Talk about ruining the tan that looked pretty damn good actually because i had someone put it on me thats been doing it for 25 years. So considering all of this, I think i did pretty damn good against the competition, it was my first show and although most of it pretty much sucked, im going to do the Pittsburgh in May. Its in a much nicer place and its a bigger show, very big actually. Im going to learn from any mistakes i made and let me tell you. If you have never done this before, practice your quarter turns and know what the heck your going to do when you go out and have it perfect. Very important!! I mainly did this show to get the experience for the Pgh show because that is the first one i was originally going to do. Im glad i did this and extremely happy to have walked away with a trophy, as nice trophy too!! It wasnt even plastic 
. Ill be sticking around with you guys now to keep up with the advice, one thing i am pretty proud of is as far as my eating and what i did, i went into this in pretty damn good shape, my bodyfat was around 7-8% and i dropped my water pretty much perfect. I did get one serious cramp in my abs that hurt like hell and it looks like something was about to burst out of my stomach but other then that i was happy with myself. Ill get some pics asap and post em.
. Ill be sticking around with you guys now to keep up with the advice, one thing i am pretty proud of is as far as my eating and what i did, i went into this in pretty damn good shape, my bodyfat was around 7-8% and i dropped my water pretty much perfect. I did get one serious cramp in my abs that hurt like hell and it looks like something was about to burst out of my stomach but other then that i was happy with myself. Ill get some pics asap and post em.
