I Just Found Out My Friend Is a World Class Weight Lifter!

[enginerd]

I hadn't seen her in several years so I didn't know she had started weight lifting. I was talking to a mutual friend recently (we used to hang out alot together - the three of us) and she told me that our friend starting weight lifting to gain her strenghth back after having knee problems due to arthritis. Now she is a world champion and won a gold medal for the U.S. recently when she competed in Ireland for both her age class and for her weight class for women of all ages. I am totally in shock (I looked it up on youtube and saw videos of her lifting and of her getting awards) because my friend is 62 and a former ballet dancer. This just totally cracks me up. She has always been a very unusual and interesting person but this takes the cake.

[cheynesnana]

That's awesome!!