Hey Everyone. I need your mouse klick.

I really need your help. I am pretty sure everyone knows the chocolate Bar Snickers with the Peanuts inside… Yes so this brand has running a sponsorhip thing for individuall athlets in Austria. and I am taking part in it. So now I would be soooo pleased if you can vote for me. Because the top five got in the final and a jury will chose at the end one athlet. The pricemoney is 5000 Euros. And this money would help me to continue my racing for next year and see maybe one of you soon again.

So go www.snickers.at –> *VOTE–>EINZELSPORTLER–>search for me MISSDOWNHILL*—-> klick on *als Gast voten- *  *”JETZT Voten*  tip in this letter code and click *VOTEN* and it’s done the other code which you will be asked is inside a snickers (but I think you can just buy this snickers in austria).
or go directly to my link http://www.snickers.at/UizHyHsvyd

And now that’s might be hard not to forget. YOU MUST VOTE Everyday 20 DAYS  for me please from today end is the 11.sept.09!

I have some ideas how you can’t forget to vote for me everyday.
Stick a post in on your computer with VOTE FOR MISSDOWNHILL
Stick a post it near  your toilet flush
or use your mobile phone as a daily reminder
write it with a Marker on your drink bottle

vote-for-missdownhill.pdf

Yes I was on tour again this time in France. The ixs European cup was held in Chalet.

Some of you bikers mind know this place because it is one valley of the big bike paradise called Port du soleil or Les gets or Morzine or…. There are so many tracks. Some of them are easy and some of thema are really hard downhill tracks. I mean still not comparable with Whistler (CAN) but I think on of the best places to be in Europe.

It was a nice week. I started with my birthday- 26. I celebrated on Monday because I was to busy to party on Tuesday (11th- my the original birth day) By the way “happy birthday” to my uncle, Niki S., Simone H. So it wasn’t a big party it was more a small friends and family thing with a Sachertorte.

I was to busy to organize something bigger. On Tuesday I packed my stuff and worked on my apartment. At Wednesday morning about 6 o’clock I drove to Schladming to meet Elias the RSP rider, because we planned to drive together to the race. He has a big van, where we could sleep in. So yes we started at 9:30 and arrive at 19:30. 10 hours drive….oh my god and so many traffic jams maybe about 6.. to much. Especially in Switzerland it was a night mare. Before Zurich after Zurich before Bern after Bern before…after…every city was surrounded by slowly moving cars…I was very happy that Elias drove and i was just the passenger who slept with head back and open mouth.

Elias friends Mario and Benni

have been already there when we arrived and so we enlarged our pits with elias canvas blind.

We called the area under the tents our living room.

On the picture you can see sometimes it got out of control but the role allocation in our group were well defined. So the group harmony was just perfect and we had so much fun. I laughed tears….

The weather was great too, just in the nights it got really cold and I was so glad that i had my sleeping bag.

On Thursday the race track was closed so we went training on our great tracks. I really enjoyed riding new tracks but I was glad that I could ride on the race track the next day. I like to know the track well to ride fast and I also like to ride when the track is taped so you have to look for fast lines. I love racing. jep the training went well and the seeding run so so. Many good riders were there. Riders like the World champ 2007 Sabrina Jonnier, the european champ Florine Pugine and many other fast ladies. So it was a good competitor field. On sunday it went allright. I made a mistake in my race run and lost my balance in the only muddy turn on the whole track. I ended up on the 5th position, so I was satisfied and happy about this place.

After the race Elias and I packed our stuff straight away and drove back. Elias had to work on Monday morning and I wanted to be at home to get everything ready for the workers in my apartment. So yes this time it even took longer and we arrived at 2 o’clock in the night at Schladming. I was the princess again and Elias didn’t bother to drive…I was so pleased for that because I was sooo tired. On Monday I training on the World cup track in Schladming and drove back home after midday.

Now I am back home and tomorrow I will finish the Bathroom and train DH at Semmering…. BYe bye LENE

wagrain race report.pdf

Some of you know some of you don’t but anyway I stayed at home the last weeks and didn’t go to Canada to race there the 2 world cups. I thought about it very long and at the end I found it would be better to stay here and train for Schladming and save some money. I will move out soon in my new apartment and yes that will cost me lots of Euros and I should better save some money to be able to race the next season. I think the World financial crisis will hit the athletes a lot or has already because i guess the marketing/sponsoring budget will be cut of as first. So yes I stayed in lovely Austria and trained here. I went to Schladming and to Wagrain.

It was a cloak and dagger operation. Because at 10 p.m. I read on the downhill page that the bike park Wagrain is organizing a race and the first price is the Gravity Season Card. For everybody who doesn’t know what this is. With this card you can ride in 5 big bike parks the whole year for free. It cost about 320 Euros. So apart from winning this card I was even keener to race my bike and present my sponsors. So I packed all my stuff in the night. Stood up at 4 a.m. left at 5 and drove 4 hours there. But just half an hour before I arrived I got so tired that I realized uiuiui you will fall asleep soon so I drove to the side and slept. It took me maybe one minute…zZzZzZzZ…after this nap I drove on and got in a massive traffic jam…Massive 35 km. it was caused by tunnel work and just 100 before my highway exit it stopped to move. So yes I used the time to have a second breakfast, get changed in my riding gear and watched kids playing football between the cars and rolling with little scooters. After nearly one hour the cars start to roll again and luckily far enough so that I could exit. In Wagrain I had enough time to train and the track wasn’t very long either about a 2min track.

The most dangerous or trickiest part of the whole race was to get on the start box. just a small ladder was leaning against the 3 meter high wooden box and you had to carry your bike up with you. But everybody managed that. The race was a mix of two competitions. In your first run you had to race against the time and in your second run you had to style over obstacles. So both runs got counted. I won both competitions in my class and got this special card. I was satisfied and the whole weekend no even one rain drop, which is really seldom in this area of Austria. Jason and his bike crew were very happy about the event and that it worked all well and I was also happy to see some friends again. To sum it up it was a nice race day.

In the same evening I drove to Schladming to train there the next day and also see the free caster live streaming from the world cup in Bromont in the evening. i watched it in this restaurant/pub/disco local but image listen to “I am looking for freedom” from David Hasselhoff and seeing Fabien Barel riding down a rock garden. That’s the worst ever. I asked and begged the bar man for turning the original sound on, the Rob Warner commentator voice, but he was not willing to do that because he said the other guest (the local was empty, apart from the mountain bike riders)got disturbed by the voice…. Okay so I went to the apartment of the Schladming bike crew P2 and asked if I could watch there at least the 4x on their laptop…But hmm the 4 X starts at 1 a.m. and everybody felt a sleep before including me. The next day the sun was shining again and I felt very good on my bike. The Schladming track is and will always be one of the best in the world and it’s always a challenge to go fast and stay smooth on this track. From the top to the bottom you are on the gas,your brake discs get blue and your upper arms are pumped. That’s Schladming.