First competition in 2016 took place near Viljandi (Heimtali stables) on 16th of January and the judge was from Lithuania, Jurate Miliunaite.
It was extremely cold that day and basically at that time were the coldest weeks of this winter. In many nights the temperature fell below -25°C. Funny thing was, that I was ill and had very high fever, about 39°C, and didn't even notice it for three-four days. I was a bit feeble and had slight cold shivers, but it didn't bother me. Just went on to competition and the next day we had a training and so on, until I took my temperature and was amazed. Luckily I got well in a few days. But enough about me, lets go on with the competition and results.
To my suprise we weren't so bad after such a long break, about 1.5 month since the last competition. There were some problems and lack of cooperation in some cases, but I blame it on lack of training, because we had training time only once a week for a long time. Thereof most of the turns were wide, speed was low and some bad contacts. The last ones were not directly mistakes, but just not well performed like we practiced.
First run was excellent, clean run and speed more or less ok (4th speed). Definitely we have to take in to account that first run is usually very problematic to us. Either we break down the course or do something else stupid. This time we got 4th place with our clean run.
Second run was DSQ, nothing much to talk about it, because don't remember for what we got DSQ. Probably bad leading and my body position.
In third run we were 10th with a bad speed and 2 faults.
To sum it all up - more training, more everyday running and activities to get the weight down a bit and speed up again. Anyway, I think we are getting better and head for the podium places.
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