Jan 18th 2020 in the cold city of Sheffield I woke up hungry for food and the competition.
I had scheduled a telephone interview with BBC Radio Bristol for 7.45 and had a pleasant chat about the competition before heading for breakfast.
I had a hearty breakfast and then spent my day chatting to other athletes and waiting for my family and friends to arrive.
We got to the Venue Fly DSA Arena Sheffield about 1.30pm and had a look around the venue and filmed our intros for the comp.
The nerves and anticipation started to kick in and time flew by if I'm honest.
The competition was ran with military precision the changing of events swift and fast.
Log ladder was first up 120/140/160/170/180logs to press I managed 4 logs and timed out which placed me 4th in that event I made a little mistake at the start so was kicking myself a bit but was happy to place 4th.
Second event was axle deadlift 330kg for reps I was very happy to pull 4 clean reps on a weight I had not previously touched on a axle under the watchful eye of my friend Loz I was happy!
Next up was the loading medley!
Duck walk 200kg,150kg keg 130sandbag and 100kg tyre into a skip I was dreading this event if I'm honest but also knew that I was going to finish it if it killed me I managed all the implements in a not great time straining my intercostals on the key hampered me massively and put pain to my hope of placing 7 or above! But I wasn't going to give in I'm.not built that way.
Next was conans wheels a 350kg quad bike to be carried around in a circle for as many revolutions or degrees as possible I managed 1 full turn which was disappointing but the pain got the better of me and I put it down.
Last event was the atlas stones I managed 3 stones before attempting to lap the 160kg stone and feeling a sharp pain in my rib cage like a hot knife so I decided to stop there and apologise and say my thank you to the crowd who were amazing!!
I placed 12/13 in a incredible line up and I'm proud I earned my spot there and hope that I continue to get invited because I'm intending on coming back stronger than ever and eager to do damage to the leaderboard.