Victoria Jaime

Meet Recap

Now two days post-competition I am finally catching a moment to update you on my meet that happened on Friday at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club.

I think from an athletes perspective there is always the tendency to ask afterwards could I have done more? And with weight lifting I’m learning how to measure my successes differently. A few days before I would have told you that I didn’t give my best because the weight didn’t go up. But that’s not a good way of measuring my success. So how do you measure if you gave your best?
For me it started when I told my coach in June that I signed up for an August meet. From there I never missed a training session; I showed up every time. It didn’t matter that I was tired from a late night study or coming straight from a 3 hr lecture class where I was just sitting a majority of the time. I didn’t always do a good job of leaving “everything” at the door of the gym when I trained to focus on me and the barbell but I did my best. I have been in school (5 classes/wk) the entire duration of my competition prep and I have been working full time as well. There were a lot of hard days, there were a lot of long days but I did it. I never once stopped training. And I’m almost in tears writing this because I am proud of myself for doing that. For going up in front of so many people (which I extremely dislike) and being the only one (for the moment) that people are focused on, I’m proud that I stepped out of my comfort zone and did what I love to do! Yes, I did not hit the numbers that I wanted and that hits hard at my pride. But I am now ready to return with some fire in me cause I still will fight for that 100 Press and that 315 Deadlift. This is not the end; it is only a stepping stone for the next season.

Finally, I want to thank my coach @ ! I tell you a lot (but you don’t like to listen 😉) that I appreciate so much all that you do for me. The countless hours a week programming for me and giving me feedback. Supporting me through it all, I’m thankful to be your lifter and I’m ready for the next meet 💪