What were the factors in terms of why you were thinking about pulling out, and then what ultimately made you stay?

I think the first thing was I was not, like, in a mental state, I don't think I was, like, prepared on a mental state to, like, really handle another competition.

Because I came off world championship with, like, a lot of mixed feelings about not continuing powerlifting and so much going on.

And then, a couple of weeks after the world championship, the whole thing on social media, I got, like, super exhausted from it.

And so it was just, like, I think my mental state and not being able to lock in into training that kind of, like, want, I kind of, like, wanted to quit because of that.

Not really quit [laughs] but pull out.

But the thing is the fact that I'm not, I'm not really a quitter, so a part of me is like...

Mm.

That's over 700.

Yeah, so we didn't want to push to 340 because I already did that in the dream, but we wanted a lift that was 100% a hit rate.

So that's why we loaded 334.4.

The 0.4 was just, they forgot to take the chip off and they had put the chip in the first way.

So they just added a kilo on it and then there was a chip at the end.

So, but that would have had me around 33 kilos ahead of my competitor.

So that is exactly where we wanted to be.

and