{"id":896,"date":"2009-11-24T06:16:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2009-11-24T06:16:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:16:29","slug":"this-weekends-weightlifting-shambles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/this-weekends-weightlifting-shambles\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend&#8217;s Weightlifting Shambles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to start this post&#8230; without resorting to impolite expletives!  This weekend&#8217;s weightlifting competition went about as wrong as it could have done, short of bombing (failing to get any lifts).<\/p>\n<p>I could wax lyrical about my failures, but can&#8217;t quite face it to be honest.  It was a <strong>shambles that&#8217;s soonest forgotten<\/strong>.  The short version is, I got only 2 of my 6 lifts: 70kg Snatch and 95kg Clean &#038; Jerk, for a 165 total.  A mile away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/its-competition-day\/\">182 total I was hoping for<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the high def video, in all its embarrassing glory:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpv_videoc\">\n<div class=\"wpv_self\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skarcha.com\/wp-plugins\/wpvideo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPvideo 1.10<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_titleauthor\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_video\"><object data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GasiaaQhaRQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GasiaaQhaRQ\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to start this post&#8230; without resorting to impolite expletives! This weekend&#8217;s weightlifting competition went about as wrong as it could have done, short of bombing (failing to get any lifts). I could wax lyrical about my failures, but can&#8217;t quite face it to be honest. It was a shambles that&#8217;s soonest forgotten. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,115],"tags":[113,111,179,181,365,69,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-olympic-weightlifting","8":"tag-bwla","9":"tag-clean-and-jerk","10":"tag-mytholmroyd","11":"tag-northern-open","12":"tag-olympic-weightlifting","13":"tag-snatch","14":"tag-yorkshire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}