It was a tough day at the office yesterday, as my teammate Zina put it! It was a balmy -22 all day here in Ostersund and by 3:30 it had only warmed up to -19.2. Meaning it was a bit touch and go if the race would start. We have a -20 cut off for racing in biathlon and as zero loomed closer the clouds rolled in and it started to snow and the temperature stayed around -19, race start a GO! I was bib #87, meaning a 6:03pm start. I was feeling really confident heading into this race, I was feeling strong and ready to race my favourite race, the 7.5km Sprint!
Zero went well and I was ready to rock as 6:03 rolled around. Things went great off the start, I was skiing strong and feeling good. I came into my first shooting and hit 5 nice and quick. As I left the range I was in 30th place, a great spot to be! Skiing around my second 2.5km loop I stayed in that same position coming into the range for my standing shooting. The cold always makes it a bit slower shooting, so my set up was sluggish and my eyeballs were frozen because my glasses had frozen up, never mind that just focus on hitting the black. Miss, miss, re set, miss, deep breath, hit, miss. I dropped my head in amazement that I had just missed 4 targets. This is not what I do, I am good at shooting. As I skied around and around the penalty loop I could feel my hopes of making the top 60 slipping away. Still I had one loop to go and no point is skiing slow! I crossed the finish line disappointed and angry. But on the up side I did accomplish my skiing goal. To push hard off the start and not loose so much time on my second lap. I felt strong out there skiing and know that it will only get better the more racing I do. The shooting will come, like it always does!
The other ladies had a tough time on the range as well. Megan finish 69th with 0 miss prone and 3 miss standing, Zina was 84th with 2 miss prone and 3 miss standing. So no pursuit for us, you need to make the top 60 in order to get to race the 10km pursuit. There is a lot of season left as Megan nicely put it, but it still stings!
The weekend will be spent cheering on the boys and getting some training in. Today the men race at 2:20, Brendan being bib #2!!! JP #50 and Nathan #57. I am sending out good shooting vibes to them and hopefully they will do much better than we did! Monday we head to Hochfilzen, Austria for the next set of races; sprint, relay and pursuit. Here we will have a good contingent of Canadian parents come out to cheer us on! Brendan's and Nathan's mom and dad as well as Zina's I think.
top three results from the day
1st - Kaisa Makarainen 10/10
2nd - Miri Gossner 10/10
3rd - Darya Domracheva 9/10
Cheers
Rosanna
this is from the Individual
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