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From my earliest recollections, I have been a couch potato. However, this all changed when I moved out to California in my
mid-20s and joined a gym (the required thing to do upon entering the Golden State in the 1980s). I started running 10Ks with
my soon-to-be-hubby in the fall of 1987, then got into open water distance swimming and finally triathlons in 1988. This went
on for a few years until 1991 when I developed a nice case of Sciatica and ballooned up to 150 lbs. We went to Hawaii when
I was this humongous, and the vacation pix were not pretty. I decided that year to make it my goal to enter a bodybuilding
competition. Four months later I posed for my first contest; I didn't place, but the positive feedback I received was the
only reward I needed (yeh, yeh...I'm an exhibitionist at heart...what of it?!). And who's the voyeur looking at this?
Second Place, Miss Sonoma County and Miss Sonoma County Fitness, 1992
Miss Sonoma County Fitness, 1993
Ms. Ironwoman, 1994
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Artwork by Press Democrat artist David Brawley
And here I am in the "Slutty Evening Wear" portion of the competition. (Martin bought this for me the previous Christmas;
at least I found the appropriate place to wear it...)
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