How's that for a title eh? :lol:

Nothing 'informative' here for you today, but I still wanted to post and share something with you.

Yesterday was Laura's first ultrasound. This had to be one of the neatest experiences I can remember. For those of you parents out there, I'm sure you know the feeling I'm referring to. Wow. It was so cool to see a little baby ... with a hugantic melon for a head. :lol: I showed the printouts to my mom who without missing a beat said, "looks just like you Erik; big head".

I didn't laugh.

Anyway, from head to butt, the baby is only 7cm long - 2.75 inches for you stuck in the stone age. So tiny. She (that being Laura - we're not finding out the sex) is only 13.5 weeks they said. You could see the little hands and feet, see the heart beating, etc., etc. Really a phenomenal thing to look at.

Wow!

Onto other news, I'm off to the NPC Junior Nationals (leaving at 3am tonight/tomorrow morning), which are again being held in Chicago. We'll have a smaller contingent at this show but a good one nonetheless. The Junior Nationals is a two-day event with Round 1 Prejudging (one-piece) being done Friday evening, Round 2 prejudging (two-piece) being done Saturday morning and the Finals being done Saturday evening. Two-day events throw a bit of a wrench into the typical strategies used for the traditional one-day shows, but being through this before, I've got it all figured out. :lol: Tomorrow will just be a 'hang out' day of sorts and I'll do some work as well. I was debating trying to get a workout in down there, but I'm going to pass on that and just take the few days off.

Speaking of my training, today I weighed the lightest I have weighed in literally as long as I can remember - 215.8lbs. I am hoping to be done dieting fairly soon. Still have a little to go. I've dropped my training back to four days per week from the six days I was doing. It was interesting to see that pushing six days per week with high volume while dieting didn't result in any negatives. I was able to push that for 8 straight weeks. In this phase, I'll take two extra days off, but my training volume is staying on the high side.

Anyway, off to finish getting ready. I'll try to get in a 'live update' from the show again some time on the weekend - with pictures even. Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed for the LBC girls.

Posted Jun 18, 2008 by Erik Ledin.
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