Jennie Stenerhag

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Silver at the Swedish MTB Marathon Championship

2012-08-21

Swedenis a long country and the Swedish MTB Marathon Champoionship was this weekend held in the southern part of the country, 585km away from where I stay, it was a long journey in the car on my own!

 

The course is known to be very technical and fun and I really wanted to get some experience on that kind of course but I was very nervous before the start. All the other girls were very experienced MTB riders, both on cross country and marathons.

 

We first had a start loop of5 km then 2 laps on a 35km loop and we started in 28 degrees. I knew that it would be very important to drink a lot and spend the energy in the right way. We started together with the elite men and I tried to get a good position in the start, came in on the first single track section as the third girl but was quickly passed by 2 other. I stayed on the wheel of Åsa, she is mostly doing XC world cups so it was fun to see if I could stay with her and I could, sort of...:-)

 

I was now laying 5th and on a gravel road I could leave Åsa behind and after a while I saw Emmy, we were then riding together for 30 km before I could ride away from her, now being in 3rd position. People along the route started to tell me that I was getting closer to Kajsa and that made me going harder and with 15km to go I could pass her, so now the silver could be mine. So I thought…

 

With 1km to go I start to climb the last hill and hear someone behind me, Emmy is coming! I had over a minute on her with 6km to go but my legs are cramping! She passes me on the top of the hill and goes very fast downhill, I do everything I can to stick with her and down on the last piece of gravel road I can get on her wheel and once again I had to use my road skills in a sprint. So in the end I got the silver that I wanted.

 

Alexandra Engen won comfortably, she was 6th at the Olympics last weekend, so not much to do about her:-)

 

To race was just under 4 hours in that heat so after that I struggled to pee for the doping test, I had to sit drinking water for so long that my car was the last one on the field when I was done…

 

 

Yes, the silver is mine:-)

 Exhausted after!

Doping test again... last one was last weekend

 

Happy girls on the podium: Emmy 3rd, Alexandra 1st and me 2nd

Antal kommentarer: 2

2012-08-21 08:43:25 - Victor, victor@bigtree.org.za, 574thAvenue,Fairways,CapeTown,SouthAfrica

Well Done!!!!
I think you are becoming a natural at MTB. :)
Big Tree Foundation is really exited to have you ride the 2013 Absa Cape Epic to help us raise funds to buy school clothes for the rural school children.

Congratulations!!!

2012-08-26 16:14:39 - Lee Nakan, Lnakan@oldmutual.com

Awesome stuff Jennie, well done.Keep up the good work and we look forward to meeting you soon. All the best;)
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