{"id":1,"date":"2017-06-18T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katiecooke.com\/powerlifting\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-06-22T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:26:32","slug":"four-weeks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katiecooke.com\/powerlifting\/2017\/06\/18\/four-weeks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Four weeks out from the British"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today it’s just four weeks to the British Para-powerlifting Championships<\/a>, and I’m getting to that point where I veer between terror and delight. Both come with a helping of butterflies. I love competing, even when it twists me inside out. It will be my fourth British, but this is the first time I need to aim for more that “just doing better than last time” in order to qualify.<\/p>\n

My training has been through a huge upheaval this spring, because of work and family circumstances. I’m still playing catch up on two months of lost training, lost sleep, and the huge surges of stress and grief, so I’ve got more thinking going on that I should by now. Going into this final block I should be locking in the confidence of the strength that I’ve built, rather than playing catch up.<\/p>\n

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