This weekend a bunch of racers went on a journey to compete against the austrian and interantional 4 Cross elite riders. The bunch was BMX King (Markus), R2D2 (Thomas), Hannes (He is newbie in our 4X group so we haven’t found an nick name yet) and my humble self, Miss DH. Bursting of motivation and excitment we drove to Koppl Friday evening to be fully relaxed on Saturday (the race day). And we all had a very funny evening. I just can say I could feel my abdominal muscles caused by my non stop laughing…

Arriving in a rainstorm on friday evening the saturday could just be better. And so was it.  No rain, no wind and some sunrays. The track was in an excellent condition and every rider enjoyed it. At least how I could tell. The first corner was very narrow and so it came that the spectateurs got presented a show deluxe… So also in the woman final. I was second in the qualification (1st Anita 3rd Angie…)I had a good start and Anita for her circumstances a bad start (normally she has good starts) but she had the inside line and so we ended up elbow on elbow and Angie made her own way and won. We “fought” in every corner but we could past her any more and I could past Anita. I enjoyed the race a lot and I was very happy about the amount of female riders. It was very good 4X with high level. In the men class won the german rider Sascha Meyborg. Markus came 5th and R2D2 7th and Hannes 13th. To sum up we enjoyed all . We are looking forward to go on journey soon again. My next stop without the group is Val di Sole, Commezadura (1-4 of may). It is the pre event for the World champs and I hope I can profit by the pre practice. see you LENE

Sponsornews:

Yesterday I was for a XC ride with my sponsor frontworx. The meeting point was clear and so everybody arrived in time. Volker, his girlfriend and 2 other assistants and I were ready to climb up the hill to enjoy the downhill afterwards. I must be honest I did this tour just 2 times. So I had a map with me just in case.. But better than a map was the one who showed me the tour and he was at the top with his friends nearly at the same time we were there .So we got save back to the car and did not get lost… This would have been quite embarrassing….The weather forecast wasn’t good but it didn’t rain and the day was excellent.

Materialnews:

I not riding any longer Marzocchi. I change the sponsor and now I will ride Manitou. I have already got my new 4x Fork “Minute”. It’s light blue - Apart from the good looking and I tried the fork today and it’s Wicked!’#+`0?

Today my Sombrio riding gear arrived and what should I say special like everytime. The jerseys have on the bottom (left) on the inside a little square of cotton rag stitched off for clining your googles. I really count myself lucky to get this well delibereted clothes. Thanks to sports-nut by the way.

My first race will be the 4cross in Koppl on the 26 of April. So heaps of time to test my bikes.

see you LENE