My First World Championship in Elite
Yes, I made it. I’m here. But i tis just a beginning. Now it’s time to calm dawn and focus for races. I know I’m well prepared, no sicknesses and my arm doesn’t make any troubles.
Sprint – fastest race as a first race in very challenging terrain. I think I’ve managed to put me in a mood I need to have a before race. I didn’t do any big mistake (as many very good athletes did), but I did too many small ones. I ende dat 22nd position – my best international result and no it’s from WC! I am satisfied with my performance but I know I can do better.
Long distance – a huge mistakes to 2nd and 3rd control. I knew I will not fullfill my TOP20 goal but still didn’t want to give up. Unfortunately, a small iron piece on the stripe of my pole got broken and I had to go to the changing material point. It resulted in 23rd position. I am really sad about my equipment problem because without it would reach my TOP20 goal! Yes, even with my huge mistakes at the beginning – it again showed up that everybody was doing mistakes and Idid very well for the rest of the race.
Middle distance with mass start. I felt i tis my day. The race was again very difficult. I felt very strong in the first upphil and punched my first control among the bests. However, mistake to the second control throw me a bit back. No problem, jsut keep focusing for 100%! But soon I lost my contrrentration totally. In one moment, there is Hanka Hančíková going just against me, laughing and talking to me. I was so confused what she’s doing and what she’s saying to me that I’ve missed one narrow track and went totally after a while. Instead of calming don, I tried to push and catch lost time, which led to another mistakes. A very bad race which ended even with my disqulification. last control was missing in my EMIT. I was 100% I punched the control because I remembered I toughed the EMIT desk. There were another runner who were disqualified at the same control and we all agreed we punched the left unit (desk), so it could happen this EMIT desk wasn’t working properly. But I decided not to make a protest, because of my very bad result anyway.
Relay. An unpleasant surprise. The coach decided to put me to the last leg! Something I would’t expect and something I wasn’t ready for. I‘ not experienced with running a 3rd leg, not even from foo-t. In my opinion, i tis not the best time to test it at the first world champ. But our coach didn’t want to discuss about this. I tried to prepare myself mentally as good as possible. But lack of experience is hard to substitute. Simonamade a great race at the first leg. Hana did also very good at 2nd and I was sent to te forrest on 5th place but just few seconds behind a bronze medal. I really tried to push to keep up these girls but they had a different forking to the first one and I lost my self confidence and a flow. I tried to calm down and do a good performance with 100% focus for the rest of the course but I failed. I felt like Alice in Wonderland for the rest of the course. I really didn’t ge tin the race at all. I was really happy I managed to come to the finnish at the same position as I started – 5th. Thank you Simona and Hana, for giving me this big lead ahead of 6th team.
