It`s been a while since my last update..Not good at all!! I`m not sure where to start, what have I been doing the last month? Time is flying to fast and sometimes I wishes that time could stand still for a while like It did when I was a young girl.

One thing is sure, I`ve not spent the last month back home with relaxing holidays at the beach and BBQ in the evening.

10 days spent in Trondheim for the Nationals, then a small week home before 7 days in Israel for the Europeans.

Nationals

My tanning didn`t improve at all in Trondheim, 10 days with rain and cold weather. I like to race in rain though, but when I gets to cold I get muskular problems and this was the case in the Marathon race. Actually I desided to stop in the race halfway, I couldn`t take any risks of getting ill again. In the cross country race I was feeling better, still heavy legs from the base-training in June but still a okey race and training for me. I won the cross country race and I`m looking forward to use the Norwegian Jersey in the Worldcups. The road race was a bit of a challange, one year since my last race on the road and I`ve to be honest to say I don`t really know the strenght of the girls on the road. The only thing I knew was that I was a good course for me.

I attacted halfway in the race, only one girl followed me and we where in the breakaway the whole way to the finishline. I lost the sprint by 1cm and was not so happy about that.

Europeans

Israel was a new country for me, the only thing I knew about Israel was that It was going to be hot and totally the opposite from the Nationals in Trondheim. I`m used to race in the heat so this didn`t really bother me, I was just happy to see and feel the sun again. I even got to use my bikini for 10min in the Mediterranean Sea, my first swim this year! I`m not a big swimmer and I`m only taking a bath when I warm in the sea.

The course was cool,fast witch suited me and my S-Works Era well.

Again I had a really bad start and also some problems taking the wrong line in the first single trail where It was full stop. After a lap or two in the back of the field I could start my race and pass girls. I think I was around 20 in the first lap and finished in 6th place, 1min 14sec behind Katrin Laumann who won the race. I really have something to work on for the second half of the season and my start-speed is way to slow. I dosen`t matter how fast I am in the end of the race when I can`t follow the best girls from the start.

The next week I`ll be resting up home for the Worldcups in Champerey and Val Di Sole in the end of July. Not to much time to tain on my start speed but I hope some resting also will make me faster from the startgun

Bye for now

LB