yes tomorrow is the final day… honestly I am nervous. I don’t know why I trained good and found my lines, which I think are fast…I am tired and we just came back to the accomondation because the other girl who is staying with me raced 4 cross too. I was a little bit sad that I didn’t race too but this time I should focus on downhill. I need a good result to start at the worlds. maybe that’s the reason why i am nervous and feel pressure on me. I am sure starting in four cross.. so about that I am very stoked. good night I need sleep.

This week I sorted a lot out for the next month so I didn’t race the planed race this weekend. It was a good desicion and I enjoyed not to compete … I trained good and hard and thing I got more out of that than out of 2 race and training runs. My stuff is already packed and I will fly out tomorrow to Barcelona-drive to Andorra- race - back to Barcelona- fly to London- to Glasgow-race there and back to London and back home… Vienna. I need sleep now See you LENE

Pedal Pedal pedal… was crossing my mind on Sunday at 15:12:30 when I looked on the clock -  ready to race when the light turned into green. I would lie saying I wasn’t nervous… my family was there to watch, which is very very seldom and who knows me knows that I am very comepetive person.. At the end I stood on the podium 3rd position (national ranking) and 4th (international ranking). To sum I had an okay run..Just okay because I managed to cross a corner so that I nearly overflow it and so I lost few seconds. Maybe I could have beaten the second placed woman Anita Molcik, with whom I was close the run before and the day before, but not Petra. She had a good time.

The race was very well organized and the weather was running always on the edge…All the time grey clouds were hanging over the “Zauberberg” but the expected rain never appeared. A new starter fiel record was established I think I heard the speaker saying more then 300 starter. Also a storied number of girls/women competed and a lots of international riders  appeared (US, FIN, Japan, AUS, HUN, ITA, CZE, POL, GER …..had a lot of fun and enjoyed riding on this brilliant track. This weekend I will be in Windischgarsten (AUT) I don’t really like the track but yeah I will see how it works out. See you LENE

Pic by Kevin Kontschieder

Now I am back home.. just in time to have a mother’s day dinner with my parents and my brother. I wished I would have come to late because then it would have been meant that I was qualificated for the downhill final.  ( I was 23rd and the top twenty get in the final) I had a bad run. I didn’t find my rythm and hit a tree. But that just says me that I have to train more to get more constancy.

BUT the good news are I did a very good job in the four cross on Saturday. I reached the Semifinal and with good gates and a lot of fighting spirit and asserting myself. After the first corner I got close two another riders and I think I got one pedal in my back wheel, my spokes broke and my rim got bent. I could hardly pedal because of the high fictional resistance but I managed to pass the finish line as 2nd. I was so stoked and happy and could believe my placement…

You can hear my back wheel rubbing on my frame…

Anita Molcik another girl from Austria got second in the 4 cross and Petra Bernhard 9th in Downhill. Congratulations to them… the Austrian chicks are on the gas.

So this weekend I have the national champs (Semmering/Hirschenkogel /NÖ) so don’t miss it. see you LENE

The 4X qualification is over and i think I finished 9th (not sure) I am not happy about my result I could have done better and should have jumped this jump but hmmm always tomorrow.

I will take it easy and what comes will come.. Yours LENE