Well it has been a while since my last blog post, I will try to get you up to date. Currently I am sitting in the lounge at the Calgary airport waiting for my flight to Ostersund, Sweden for the first World Cup races of the season. But let's back up a bit! At the end of September we headed back to Europe to Ruhpolding and to ski on the Dachstein glacier in Ramsau. We got to spend five days in Ruhpolding where World Champs will be held this year, the roller ski loop is very similar to the one in the winter and the targets are the same. The skiing on the glacier was pretty rough, but we got a bit of prolonged summer training on some great roads!
shooting range in Ruhpolding
Biathlon range in Ruhpolding
skiing on the glacier
Scott P taking a tumble in the snow/slush!
Megan skiing on the "snow"
Brendan skiing on the glacier
Matthias aka Yodel on the climbing wall in Ramsau
Jacqueline came along as assistant coach! These photos are curtesy of her!
Jean showing us his war face!
We went for a really cool hike one day, but had to climb down this super scary ladder!
this was also on the hike, kinda looks like the moon!
of our 3 weeks spent in Europe only 2 were rainy!
After getting home from Europe they pushed out frozen thunder (the snow saved from last winter) and we were skiing on some good, clean snow! At the beginning of November we had our World Cup and IBU cup selection races in Canmore on snow, the first time they have been on snow in a really long time. Megan Imrie was pre qualified for the WC team, meaning there was 2 spots left open. On Monday we had a sprint race and things were not perfect, my legs were not feeling super and shooting was ok. I hit 8/10 and came 5th. Tuesday was the mass start format race (meaning individual starts but mass start distance 12.5km) and things went much better! Legs were feeling good and I hit 20/20!!! I have never before hit 20/20 targets in a race, it was pretty exciting. That day I placed 2nd and snagged one of the WC start spots, Zina took the other. The mens team will be Brendan, Scott P, JP and Scott Gow (also know as golden Gow or Thor).
My first race is an Individual next Thursday. The training is all done and it is now time to start racing! I will be keeping you updated here, so be sure to check back often!
Cheers
Rosanna
2 comments:
YA girl! that is so amazing! I was just thinking of where in the world you are as I am in Krakow and went for a run this morning in my hiking boots. As soon as I get back to civilization (Canada) i wanna skype your sharp shootin self.
Love,
K Muds
Thats awesome! It feels great when you've shot perfectly!
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