Weilst ein Herz hast wir a Bergewerg weilst a Wahnsinn bist für mi steh I auf di…..I am from Austria… Maybe some of you know this phrase from a famous Austrian song. It’s a song love song dedicated to wonderful Austria and I mention this song now because it played it when I went out tonight instead of sleeping and get ready for the Finals on sunday…..and because the last World cup took place in Austria my home country, in lovely Schladming. I trained a lot before the race on the Dh and 4x track and you should have assumed that I had a big advantage, but it doesn’t make a different how often you ride track and how often you race it down in your head. How often you walk it down or how many people help you believe in you to get prepared. Every corner and every root are in printed your head and you know where and when to place your breaking point, jump push or take the speed out. And? What counts? I can tell you what counts- your mentally strength. Nothing else.  When you race on this level, I do- the world cup. The worlds best riders. You can be sure that everyone trains hard, is super fit , has the best bikes, has the best support you can imagine and everyone wants to win. So you are just top when you can focus and when you are mentally the strongest.  And I guess you want to know what did happen in my race run. I failed- I was so nervous and I think to sum it up I didn’t even ride one line good how I trained it before. One mistake after one. I ended up on the 24^th position and missed the finals on Sunday. 

In four cross it was nearly the same. I trained very well, was happy and said to myself “that’s my race I feel so good”. But I have also to mention this time the luck wasn’t on my side. In my qualification run sun exposure was blending me so much that I couldn’t jump 2 jumps clear. I was 10^th and in my second were 4 girls. So I could have been also 7^th when I would have been 0,80 seconds faster. Anyway on Saturday I got out in the first round and finally ended on the 9^th position too. I am fine with this but I expected much more.

I am glad that the season is over and have break now.  First thing I will do is to get my private life sorted.  By by LENE

So just to let you know the last UCi world cup is running this weekend in Schladming.

I will be there and maybe some of you can come and cheer for me live or go on freecaster.tv. There you can see a live streaming from the 4x race (Saturday 19:00)  and the downhill race (Sunday 13:15 the women start first so don’t come to late)
http://www.mountainbike-weltcup.at/

Timetable click here

bye bye your LENE

After the race I was driving in the night to Slovenia to Kranjsk Gora. Lisa from Alptrails was organizing a woman DH camp and she invited me as a pro rider to work with the girls on their jumping, dropping etc. skills. It was so good and I really enjoyed it. We stayed all together in a nice appartment. The girls were great and motivated to learn much. The weather was great too and the dh track was very various. From big jumps to small drops, from north shore to open gravel turns. I think everyone gained something from this weekend, so did I. For next year Lisa has big plans and in some of them I will be included. So girls get ready to ride with me. I am very patient and funny too…. Lisa and I were laughing non stop…

Last weekend it was so hectic and bussy but all worked out well for me. It was soooo good. Durring the week i was training on my 4x bike and on Saturday morning I drove to Schaldming to take part in the last race of the Austrian Cup series. I trained good. To be honest I don’t like the track much but it’s okay. I raced with my hardtail but I am not sure yet I think I will race with my fully suspension 4x the Ndiza, because it is a fast and bumpy track. There are already brake bumps on some straights. We were not many girls at all but I didn’t really care it was more a training for me for the World cup. I won the qualifcation and the finals. And won also the Austrian cup.

photo: Martin Steiger

Photo: Martin Steiger

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This weekend I was back on my four cross bike. My flashy red/orange Morewood ENZA bike- I love it.  Markus and I got up early got ready and drove to St. Magarethen. He drove like always because I was still tired from getting up so early. The weather was good and the sun was shining. That was very important for this track, because if the surface is wet and soaked it’s impossible to ride and race on this track. The mood gets so sticky and heavy that you destroy the whole track. Anyway the training started late because the track was still wet from the night rain. I know the track from last year so I felt all right and felt good on my bike and on this track. My qualification time was very good. When I passed the finish line I thought….sxxx because I slipped out of my pedal at the start and I was worry that I lost again much. But  I was first with 4 seconds ahead to the second and 5 to the third. I was so happy about that and didn’t expect that I am so much faster than the others. In the race run I had a good gate, got the first corner and won the final easy. I was soooo happy and couldn’t believe it when I crossed the finish just after when I huged Markus I screamed in his ear I won I won I won. Second got Petra Bernhard from Austria and third Neza Knez from Slovenia. That means no that I am leading the 4x Cup in Austria. The last round is this weekend on Saturday in Schladming on the world cup track. I hope it’s gonna be nice weather because the weather forcast is very very bad. RAIN RAIN RAIN. And on Sunday I will be in Slovenia to do a women downhill camp with Lisa from Alptrails. So sorry for my sponsors that I can’t be at the Eurobike this year. Bye LENE

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