So I'm back in my room - it's 1:45am here (2:45am at home) and needless to say I'm pretty tired. The one-piece prejudging Round 1 went from 5:00pm until 10:00pm ... and that's just when we left. They were just starting the physique rounds of Fitness at that point, but we had to get out of there to get the girls some food.

Huge show, with classes ranging from 16 all the way up to 40-something. They obviously passed on the idea of evening out the class sizes for this show. Must be tough to judge a 40-person class.

Anyway, Jody, doing her first national show was in Class E - 30 girls. She was in the 3rd call out I believe which should put her in the 15th ballpark. So a good first outing given there were 30 girls. As expected awesome presentation; just needs some more size to hang with these girls.

Noel was in Clsss F and looked excellent. She was called out right off the bat in a 4-person call out. Then they filed them off. So, knowing that, she's got a top 4 placing in the one-piece round. If you recall from Junior USAs, she placed 6th in the one-piece round (and 4th in the two-piece round), so we're already a couple steps up here and needless to say we're all happy with how Noel and Jody did so far.

From there we hightailed it to the Outback as the plan was to do a pretty heavy fat load (and lots of salt too) tonight - after Round 1 Friday night and before Round 2 Saturday morning. Basically, focusing on being the tightest for the two-piece round. Noel's vascularity was already starting to get a bit crazy when I said goodnight.

So, keep your fingers crossed. More tomorrow with some Round 2 updates after the prejudging.

And I'll get up those few afternoon posing practice shots I took earlier today. Lots of fun candids this weekend as well.

Stay tuned.

Posted Jun 20, 2008 by Erik Ledin.
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