Yayyy show!

Last night, a few beers into my 30th birthday celebration, I made a decision I've been thinking about off an on for months: entering a fitness competition.  Specifically, a bikini competition through NPC.

The sexy bikini, fake tan, stripper heels and weird butt poses aren't my thing.  At all.  

Buttttt... (what's up, hope you guys are up for some sweet puns) I've been training really hard in the gym for almost a year and off and on for years before that.  I've always been a distance runner but my passion for weightlifting has rivaled that of my running in the past few months.  I desire a competition.  

So it's either a powerlifting competition or a bodybuilding show.  That's the way of the weightlifting world.  My lifts are way too low to be anything but embarrassed at a competition... so looks like I'm going to need some hairspray and a teeny tiny bikini.  

The show is October 4th.. that's 6 1/2 weeks away, which is far less prep time than I think is recommended.  I'll be documenting my food and my workouts, along with a few progress pics and #swellfies.  

I sort of have a history of doing crazy things with too little prep... like the time my best friend and I ran for 16 hours around a high school track on very little training.  This show may be fun or it may be a horrific public shaming where people will jeer and throw rotten vegetables at my orange coated body.. but either way, should make for a good story.