World Championship in Mountainbike Orieentering in Jicin 2023

A whole week of great races is over and I could not be more disappointed. 

Sprint 11. Position

Long 10. Position

Middle 15. Position

Mass Start 9. Position

Relay 5. Position

Lots of fun races but far from what I expected from Czech organization. From my view I could not read the maps while I was racing. The purple lines were not cut the places which would have been recommended and maybe I just decided the wrong routes where the tracks not were how I expected them to be. I am not mad. I am just really surprised about the way they decided to organize the event. So how did it go - you will get that in details on the next lines.

Sprint in the city of Jicin. So many expectations about the city, the forest and the older city where it all culminated. I was the second last starting and waited a long time in the quarantine to compete. The nerves started to come. The first race is always hard. All the expectations have to be handled and you really want to do good because you trained for this for a long time and it means something to you. Otherwise you could just have done something else. But back to the race. I had prepared well and felt totally ready to go out and do what I love. Find my way through the controls. Have all the controls with me home and ride fast. I got the map and could see that the first part of the race would be very tricky and I was afraid of riding of track places it was not aloud. I took my time and went carefully around in the forest part and from that of I went full gas and excreted as fast as possible. I made some small mistakes on the course. Lost my bran running down the stairs instead of riding them and finally I was a bit to behind with the orienteering. Coming into the finish in 11. Position not fully satisfied about my performance. I just had to accept that I did not go fast enough. 

Preparations for Long distance was on again and this distance I really trained hard for and wanted to do good on. Made my own map of old maps and putted them all together so I could try to make some courses and get to learn the terrains curve image and all the paths. For the second time I was waiting for long time in the quarantine starting as the second last women. Warm up on rollers. Felt strong in my legs and finally it was my turn. I got the map. Surprised to see the map over city so hard to read. A blow up of the map would have been recommend to have. I was slow reading the map and pointing controls. I knew that I had to speed up to if I really wanted a good result on this distance for the rest of the course. I speeded up and knew how I should ride to get fewer high meters. I went as fast as I could and pushed. I was riding up a hill and had to accept that I could not ride it all the way. I could not get my clamps out of the pedals and crashed backwards and my map board hit me in my face. After the shock I just jumped on my bike to get further as fast as possible. I fight further and suddenly the wheels just disappeared under my body and I lay on the ground. At that moment Marika the rider who started 3 minutes after me just passed and I knew it was a bad sign if I wanted to win. I got on my bike again and rode as fast so I could get up to her wheel and pass her. I made a mistake and she was in front again. For long we fought for our positions. Once more my front wheel disappeared under me and I flew over the handlebar and landed on the ground. Tired of making mistakes and being more of the bike than on the bike. I fought through the rest og the course but I already knew that the race was over for me. Coming into the finish as 10. Position. Far from what I wanted and had dreamt about the whole year. In the afternoon I found out that my disc brake was turned 5 degrease on one place so the wheel could not even turn one round before if stopped. Hel of a nightmare It must had happen on the second crash. I had actually ride with that for long. Bad luck but my bike was fixed and I was ready to fight on a new day.  

Middle distance another long day in the quarantine starting as the last person in the women elite class. I tried to relax and feel comfortable. I took my speed suit on and was ready to start the warm up. I started to roll on my bike and it began to make noises. Not how I wanted it to be but I could do much about it at the moment. The bottom bracket had to be changed although it was not that many months since I did it. Nothing to do about it. I just accept it and focus on the races. I did what I could and It was my time to start. The start bib sound came and the race was on. I took the first control safe and I thought I did the same with the next but I could not read the terrain and stopped staring just in front of the path I had to in. then I found out I felt stupid and wanted to go fast which made me make another mistake and from that moment the mistakes just kept rolling. I did not see the paths and could not read the mad. Definitely not the race I had dreamed about. Coming into the finish relishing it was as number 15. Not happy at all so I rode a bit of to understand what I just had had troubles with. Paths I could not see in the terrain. Paths I could not read in the terrain and wrong route choices due to bad map reading. Terrible!!!

Mass Start the last individual race of the World Champs. A big pressure on the shoulders but if you think of it like that you should not race. So I tried to think clear and focus on the bullet points I always have then I race. The time at the start line felt like forever. The excitement of starting the race came sneaking. It was time to have fun and go hard. The gun shot kicked of and the race was on. I went straight but the path was not visible and I came to far and suddenly I was in the back of the peloton. Had to ride fast and get up to the front of the peloton. Pushing hard and taking the right controls in the right order. Coming into the spectator passage as second which I did not know pushing hard going out on the second loop. Executing the orienteering as fast as possible. Believe that I could do good in the end. Taking the last controls and coming in to the last passage of the race. I just could not read it. I ended up on the asphalt coming from the wrong direction and had to go back again. Ending the race with a sprint against a Suisse rider and ending in 9. Position. 

Relay - Last races of the week. Always fun to compete in teams against the other nations. I started on the first lap, Nina on the second and Nikoline on the third. Ready to race for the nations and the team. Pushing hard in the beginning of the race knowing where to go and then passing the path I had to turn in on and first realizing it after 100 meters. Going back again and pushing to get to the front riders. Catching up other riders again and riding together. Trying to keep the speed high again. It went wrong and I crashed frontally with a Finish rider and visited all controls on the next fork before I found my own control. Pushing again and sending Nina into the forest as the fourth rider. Nina did a good job and sent Nikoline in the forest as the seventh rider. Nikoline pushed limits and took some positions so we ended up on the podium as 5. Position. Happy to finish a World Champs on the podium. 

10. September 2023

Plzen  5 - days in Doksy 2023

5-days in Plzen is always one of my favouite events to join and this year the Danish National Team had decide it to use it as preparations for the World Championship in Jicin one and a half month later. I prefer to go to Plzen 5-days beacause of the high stadard of races combined with socializing with all the other nations. 

It all started out with a middle distance. To much lack of concentration. knew where to turn but just turned 5 meter to late. So I had to go back. Still manage to keep the orienteering together and take 5. spot. 

Lesson learned and at the Sprint distance I knew that I had to know where to go and do the orienteering so I could go through the controls instead of using time on turning the bike. I gave it all from the beginning and tried to push hard. I took some good route choises but in the end i managed to just go before I had decided the best route choise and it costed me around 23 secounds. I still ended up in 3. spot 3 secounds behind Nikoline and one minutes to an imcrediblle strong Emily. 

Next day it was time for the Chasing Start a real hunt in between 60 riders even bigger than the World Championships Chasing Start. Martina started out pretty hard and I knew I had to catch her wheel if I wanted to win. So I began to chase her through the amount of people. Wheel bye wheel I came closer but nobody of the riders was able to catch her. I could see her in front of me for the first 7 controls and I still knew that I had to do my orienteering good to keep up with her. I felt empty on my way to number 9 and went on the wrong track and got catch up by a group behind. I needed to stay in front of this group so I layed behind Lou on her wheel to get some breath. I took the front again to control 10 and suddenly Martina came from behind. I thought she was leading bye minuts at that moment. Nikoline and Gabriella came as well and suddenly we were leading the race from front. At the last butterfly we splitted up. Nikoline and I chasing Martina and Gabriella alone. We took a better route choise than MArtina and suddently she was gone. We came near to the secon last control and we could se Gabriella. Chasing her for the finish but she decided to go another route choise than Nikoline and I so we came into the finish together in the end. Me one second before Nikoline. What a races,     

Long distance - I knew it would be hard after yesterdays chasing start but I had to give it a try. I pushed on from the beginning and tried to take the good decisions about the route choises. I got things to work together but I did not feel strong. I still tried to keep fighting out there and in an unbelieverble way I mange to take a win. Two minutes faster than Martina and another minute on Emily. 

It resultes in a hunting start on the last staged where I had ti secound down to Martina leading the races. I had to do something special to get her on this kind of course - Free order. Which mean that you have a course with a few controls and then you have to take some other controls in between the coursesetters controls. At the start Martina stoped and draw the way she wanted to take the controls. So I decided to go fast and do it on my way to the controls knowing that I should remember to get all the controls with me home. I pushed hard and while I was going from the 2 to the 3 control I suddently found out that I was on my way to the 4 control. I thought that I had lost it all at that moment but I still kept on fighting to the very end. Coming over the finishline as the winner of the iconic Plzen 5-days. Unbeliverble... So happy and stoked about I was cabeble to hold it all together. 

17. July 2023

European   Championship  -  Portugal 2023

European Mountain Bike Orienteering Championship is over and a new chapter can begin. I'm not satisfied with the result but at least the feeling was good in the races.

Middle  - 11

Mass Start - 12

Sprint  - mp

Mixed Relay - 8

First distance was middle. A technical rocky and rough terrain with a lot of hills. I made to big mistakes at control 4 and 17 and lost 2 minutes. Not a perfect performance and not bad but it just not show what I'm capable of. Ended up at 11 position.

Mass start is one of my favourites and i felt strong. Had a good start and knew I didn't do the best route choices but I executed them well. Then I left the second diamant fork I knew it was good. Unfortunately i took a route choices which influenced the rest of the race. On my way to the 14 control I passed a river and had puncture in the sidewall of the tire. First I tried with a plug and used my patron but all the air just disappeared so I had to change to a tupe and pump the tire. After more or less 8 minutes I could start the climb and finish my race. The rest of the race was affected with mistakes and a front tire with less air in than I prefer to ride with. So I had to accept the 12 position instead of a medal. Which i had hoped for.

Sprint was wild. 29 controls with the route choice as 7,6 km. A control nearly every 224 meter. I had such a good feeling. Just a good flow to every control with some small direction mistakes but nothing big at all. But the bad luck was still over me. At the finish line I found out that I drove from the 10 to 12 control and forgot the 11 control. So who cares if you have the fastest time with 30 seconds but forgot a control. So unfortunately a miss points as result.

Mixed relay together with Camilla Søgaard and Noah Hoffman on the second team. A normally team is with one girl and two boys. So we knew it would be tough but possible to do a good result. Camilla Søgaard came in with the front group and send Noah Hoffman out with the lead. He performed well and changed over to me. I did a controlled race and drove over the finish line as number 8 with the best time of all the girls started.

So if you ask how European Championship was you may understand I'm not satisfied. 

1. May 2023

World Cup - Round 3 in  Bulgaria 

This year the season close with a World Cup in Bulgaria i september. After a disapointing World Championship I really wanted to show that I'm better than that. So I decided to travel to Bulgaria for the last two races of the season to hope for podium in the World Cup Overall. Although I did not have the possibility to stay for the mix relay Sunday I really wanted to give it a try. Together with the national team we travel over Jutland to Romania with a late flight and slept on an airport hotel. The next morning we travelled to Bulgaria over the boarder and directy out to the model terrain. First a model terrain for the forest and afterwards a model terrain for the sprint open area we where supposed to compete in the day after (Friday). Quiet packed program with less time than normal, but as a Team with less money for competitions and travelling we save money then it is possible. After the model event I felt as ready as I could be for the Sprint race the day after. It was all about keeping speed high and cut the corners as much as possible. The expectations was high and I really wanted this so badly. I was finally in the start box where it was time to show what I was able to. I took my map and found my way through the controls. Which way I wanted to ride the bike and from which direction I should punch the controls. The start watch sound came five, four, tree, two, one and I clicked in the pedals and pushed as hard as possible while I still could punch the controls one after one until the finish. I came to finish happy and unknown about position but still happy about my performance. Ending up in 5 spot only 20 seconds from the winner.   

It was time for the Long distance. A distance I always look forward to. We had done our preparations and I knew it could be good if I just stayed to my plan. I stated in the first end of the Red group but I just knew that I had to keep fighting and push my limits, so I did. It was long course and there was a lot of climbing. I took the best route choises I found and made them to and end. I kept to my plans and hold it together the whole race. At the finish I came in with the best time, so I just started making circles around the finish to se if I would keep on holding my position. 

The time ran out and only Camilla beated my time and Nikoline got third. So for the first time ever there were danes on all the medalpositions. The pictures tells our emotions. Perfect day for the danes.    

With this races I secured my 6. place in the over all World Cup. 

1 October 2022

World Championship in Sweden 2022

Finally it was World Champs time again. This year the disciplines was chosen in a bit more different way. We started out with Middle distance, Relay, Long distance, rest day and Sprint and Mass Start. I never felt readier than this year and I have never felt the pressure more. I really wanted to succeed but it this not what everybody who trains for a goal. I definitely did my preparations but it did come out how I wanted it.

The Middle distance was technical and challenging. I just felt empty in my legs and not ready to push in the pedals. Anyway I kept fighting but it did not turn out how I whished it would. Took too many long route choices and lost importance seconds. I did what I could which just was not enough. I ended in 13 spot 5 minutes behind Nikoline my team mate which took gold on the Middle distance.

After the Middle distance I had to rethink my technical method to see what I had to do different. I had to get ready and pick myself up form the flour to accept that I was good enough and still could fight for the best positions on the first leg on our relay team. I needed to believe in myself. Pretty hard after a day with lots of disappointments but life goes on. At the relay I started with lot of fear for not being good enough for the team but I really wanted to succeed and had to trust myself and my skills. So, I turned my fear into trust believe in what I am capable of. I pushed hard to stay in the front group and ensured to have the right controls with me home and only take my own route choices. It made me in come to the finish in the peloton and take a second spot 1 minute behind the Finns. Nikoline and Camilla performed some stable races after me. It just was not enough to take the gold but it secured the silver medals.

The day after it was time for the Long distance. A distance I had been looking forward too for one year since I had a puncture at the Long distance in Finland the year before. I had prepared everything I think I was able to. The race started out really technical on the bike and the map. After the 6 controls we finally had a long leg and it was possible to push limits and ride how you really think a Long distance should be ridden. I kept pushing but the map skill got even more difficult again and the last bit of the course was unreadable. I did my best and ended in top 10 in the 9 spot. Not what I wanted but not that bad either.   

After Long distance we had one rest day before the Sprint and Mass Start. One day to recover and spin legs and prepare the last things for the Sprint competition. The excitement was big before the start. I really wanted to do good. I got the map and the first part was in the city which I cleared quite fast. A wrong route choice in the forest made me loose to much time and from there of I was just behind with the orienteering and fought hard to find back in flow. Not the raced I had hoped for. I tried to accept it and come further.

Mass start the last race of the week. I knew I could do good. The start shut kicked off and everybody fought for their position. The field split into two groups and I thought I took the right route choice. But at my way to the control I found out that it was definitely the wrong choice and suddenly I was sent back to the end of the field after a feeling of being in front of it. Another race which I just did not decide in the right way. I could not accept it so I fought as I never had done before because I wanted it so badly. It worked and I made my way to top 10 on the last loop. In a big group I was smarted and while they other were in doubt about the direction I sneaked my way to the last controls. Sadly, I did not have the last power in the sprint for at position on the podium and ended 4 seconds out of the podium on a 7. Spot over and out!

25. July 2022

 European Championship in  Lithuania 2022

At this European Championship we had the Sprint, Long and MIX relay. Sprint was the first distance to compete in and it is always a difficult one to start with. Normally it is not my distance but I manage to keep the orienteering simple and stick to the plan in the rigth tempo. This resulted in a 5 spot only 10 second from the podium. It was great to start the season with a good race and I was happy on Camilla Søgaards to take gold and on Morten Ørnhagen to take silver.

The Long distance is always my favourite. I like to push limits and the time you have to take the right decision about the rigth route choise. I improved and started out with a strong race. For long time I was second on the radiocontrol but at the end I lost my brain and took a really bad route choise. As it was not enough I also got mechanial problems on the last hill on the course and used around a half minute on the issue. I did my best and took 5 spot again only 26 seconds from the bronze medal. Hard to believe that I could manage to 5 spots in two days. 

The MIX relay was exciting and got to show our danish colours for our team on the second team with Morten Ørnhagen and Allan Jensen. We all did quite acceptable and stable races and ended up on the 7 spot. 

A quite satisfied start at the season! 

20. May 2022

 MTB  4-stage  race  at  Club La Santa

Summer came early this year. Had the opportunity to get away from work for some days and it made it possiple to participate in MTB 4-stage race at Club La Santa. Perfect opportunity to combine a visite to a friend and get rid of new trails. 

4-stage race on MTB with 4 long days on the bike. All counted together 268 km with 4004 meters of climbing took small 12 and half hours to complete. I took a 6 spot in Women Elite in the overall result and had a blast. Great winter training and a step to some off the goals for 2022.  

26. Januar 2022

Danish cycle cross Championship 2022

One week after the Sealand championship it was time for the Danish championship. The race was in Århus at the legendary outdoor trackcycling course. Rain the day before and at the raceday made it a real mud race. Perfect to go out and fight in these conditions. I had a really bad start but it just made it fun to hunt even more for the compititors in front of me. So fun to compete and get rid of mud on the bike combined with all the things that a cycle cross race should have. Ended up with 4 spot in total and second in the Women Elite which gave me gift of getting doping testet one more time in 4 month. Altmost felt like being af proff cyclist. Thanks to Århus for a great race!

15. januar 2022

Sealand cycle cross  Championship 2022

What is better than starting af new year with cycle race in Lynge Grusgrav. Mud and rain made the race tough and hard but although it was still fun. Pushing limites against the young girls classes and kind people made my day to the podium. Had a puncture on the last round of the race and thought I had to stop or run the last part. But kind people in the techzone made my day. I got a new wheel from a competitor. Thanks to Olympia's father for the help and the wheel change which made it possiple to keep my second posititon. Great day on the bike. 

5. Januar 2022

European   Championship in Portugal 2021

A late entry at the Championship made it hard to be fully ready to compete. Did my very best but it was just not enough. Ended 13 th at the Middle distance. At the long distance I pushed my limites but ended just out of the podium i 7 spot. Which made me ensure at doping control test just what a great race resulted in. 

The last race of the season was at Mixed relay. I had a hard race after a big crash. But fighted my way back but it was not enough so theam ended up at 19 spot. 

25. October 2021

World Championship  in Finland 2021

Finally a competition on a high level "WORLD MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIP". First competition after 2 years without competitions on high level. Big confusion about my own level against all the others. I knew that I had been training a lot and after a plan and would be as prepared as I could. Because as my motto says "A day without training is a day without meaning". I train because I love to push my limits and a love to challenge myself. My expectations about the races has been very difficult to set and my excitement mode has been really high. The Mass Start was the first competition where everything was on a try. I decided to start my warm-up early on the rolls to be ready for the start in good time. After 25 minutes I was ready with my emit-touch free and compass. Rady to leave for the start. I was very nervous and tried to focus on the important things. Everybody was lined up on the start line. We got the map and 15 seconds before we turned the map and the start shut came. It was all about "keep to the front" and we went fast. Close to the first control the front split into two and I kept to the front in my group. Did my own decisions and had the others just in front of me. Sadly I made my own route choice to a control and lost the front group. I kept on pushing and made it to the finish line as 8. Position. Best position at a World Championship as W21.    

Next after Mass Start it was time for Sprint and Middle. I made two stable performance with 12. Position as result in both races. Then it was time for the long distance. The distance I knew I had the speed and power to do a good result on. The excitement was to high and with a puncture between 3. and 4. control which took me way too much time I ended up 23. Position. So disappointing to know my performance without the puncture was 10. Position and if I think of my thoughts about the puncture it could have been even better but it didn't happen...

With this bad race I had to find a lot of motivation to be ready for the relay the next day. Because it was not just about me but a team performance. We all knew that with the right race we could make a good result. Our team consisted of three girls. Me on the first leg, Nikoline Splittorf un second leg and Camilla Søgaard on third leg. The excitement level was very high on the day. All first legs riders was lined up un the start line. We got the map and 15 seconds before we could turn it and the start was on. I kept to the front and then the peloton split in three I was together with a finish rider Antonia Haga. She was fast through the terrain she was use to ride in. On the bigger track I could keep up with her. At a small track I turned left and she continued. I was in front of the whole group (which I did not know at that time). I pushed hard and thought I made a good route choice to the next control but suddenly all the Men Elite came from the left and passed. I got confused and started to rethink my decision. Looked up and saw the control on the hill on the other side of the marsh. I went off track and ran through the marsh. Just bibbed the control in the front. I felt lucky so close to catch it all away. Went back to focus on the map and got safe to the next controls. At the spectator control I was together with three other riders each with a different fork. I saw all the others control but mine was not there. It felt like minutes standing there taking a decision. Finally I got it and found the control and later on I cotch some riders in the front of me and came into the finish 5. position one minute behind the leader. It was time for Nikoline to hunt the other riders and she did well. At the spectator control she was second after Finland and later she came into the finish 40 seconds from the leader. Camilla took her map and went into the forest ready to hunt for the gold. It was so exciting. Finally we se her passing the spectator control only 10 seconds behind the leader (Finland). Already the control after Camilla was in front of Finland from there the excitement only got bigger. Thinking of what we could reach. Finally we could follow Camilla on the GPS. Crazy to se every decision she made in the forest. So exciting. We knew she could be at the finish every second and finally she came. It was such a crazy feeling. We won the World Championship in relay. A thing we have worked and wished for, for years.

WORLD CHAMPION IN RELAY 2021. 

25. June 2021

MTBO  - Finland Nationals 

Hensinki - Training Camp

After one and a half year with no competitions it was difficult to know what to expect for the races. I had a great race with more or less no mistakes, just a few bad route choices. Made it to top 6 which was impressive to me. Best danish rider of the day and good stable perfomance. Longdistance is more me and I pushed my limits on a very difficult course with 5 different maps and good challengning course with lots of possibilities to pas through the forest as you are able to in Finland. Ended up 6. th again very proud of my stability on the races. 

30. May 2021

Pre Shimano Liga  - Vissenbjerg

Second round of COVID-19 came and closed everything in January. In May we could finally race again and it felt good to be back on the mountain bike and point a number. A tough round in Vissenbjerg was on the menu with 4 laps in all. First time for me in category "Woman A". A hard peloton to compete in. It was all about a good experience and some high heartrate. Lots of climbing on the course. Satisfied with my performance not to far from the top but still in the bottom of the peloton. Great race experience and fun on the bike. 

20. May 2021

Danish Championship  in cyclocross

One week after last cyclocross race I brook my arm at a weekend training together with the Danish Team in Mountainbike Orienteering. So sadly one month with only training on the hometrainer. Three weeks after I got the rail of my broken arm I choose to participate in the Danish Nationals in cyclocross. I knew that I had to stay on my bike so it was actually my gold for the race. Participating in Women A is tough work and not just something you do. 

I had so much fun on the course. Took every challenging thing on the course in my pace and pushed the phases where it was possible. Happy to have success at my first Danish national cyclocross ever. Thanks for a great event Aarhus cycling club. 

7. January 2021

Cyclocross  Groteprijs

5. November 2020

COVID-19 rules our life

The last couple of months has been strange. Actually it all started in February then the Danish National Team had to leave for the yearly Training Camp on Gran Canaria. The day we had to leave our flight was cancelled due to a sand storm from Sahara. Although we tried to find a norther way to go to Gran Canaria and we got a flight with stop over in Barcelona and we never came further. Stuck in Barcelona! Nobody can stand in the way of us as a Team so we found a way to get the best out of the conditions we had and we a actually got 5 days with great training around Barcelona. Just see the great pictures.

After an unexpected Training Camp in Barcelona a deadly virus came to Europe and it change our life and race calendar. I think you all know what I'm talking about - COVID-19. 

As and athlete it's hard to train without goals but it has actually been great to do things you normally don't do. Normally you travel around the World every weekend and suddenly you have every weekend to do what you love to do but you normally not have time for.  So I began to do things like visiting friends and enjoy the family time and most of all enjoy the nature and it's beauty when it's spring. 

Hopefully the new goals are set. I really look forward to this years European Championship in Finland in September and World Championship in Portugal in start October.  

Get well soon world - so we can get our races back!

20. May 2020

Danish Nationals 2018

A weekend full of races: Sprint, the Legend Long distance and a Middle distance. The last month has been full of things. None of them has been about biking and focus on the MTBO. Tuesday I finished my Master Thesis fully and 6 years of hard work was over and a new life can start now. With all this in mind the sprint Friday did not turned out to any good. Focus was not there yet. It tricked me to stop believe in what I am and can do on a bike with a map. I really had to find the way to stay mentally clear before the Legend Long distance. I was nervous at the start. I had to forget the past and focus on what I did right now. Stay focus: map read and control of the map before speed. The magic words. I started, the time was on. Safe to the first control and so on it worked. Wrong map drawing at the north part of the map made it hard to read. The head stayed clear and I pushed all I could. At control 13. there was a track more than on the map. It tricked me and I stood on the wrong track and could se the control on the other track. I felt the press. Would I made it good enough to improve my skills? The next control I made another mistake. One mistake make the next even bigger. At that time I really struggled to keep focus on what I had to do. I lay it behind me and started like a new race. From now of, I gave it all I have. I new I had a lot to loose and that I already had loosed a lot of time. So I kept fighting until the finish line. I could see that it was not long since Camilla Søgaard had finished her race. One of the coaches was standing at the finishline. I asked if he new how long it was since she had finished, and he said it was about 3 minutes. 3 minutes was what we had as startinterval between us, so I knew it would be very close. One sekund between us and Camilla was the lucky one. To loose with one sekund was hard. But taking the last couple of years in mind it has newer been possible to bee so close to her. I have always been 5-20 minutes behind her at the Long distance. With this in mind I was happy about my performance and could not be more proud. A silver medal was great and I knew that tomorrow there would be another day.

The Middle distance was in Viborg, relevant terrain for World Championship next year. The terrain was really good and with small steep hills and sandy tracks. I looked like it would be fun. Before the start it started to rain a lot. Everything was wet and that turned out to be a big problem. with a wet map on a wet map board. It was difficult even to read the map. I did my best, but it really slowed me. It felt like I had to stop every minute and look at the map. It result in a fast Camilla, who reached me and raced even faster. I tried to hold on and stay with her, but she got away and won the course. Another silver medal to the assembly and another Danish Nationals was over.

In one week we are off for the European Championship in Hungary. follow the Danish National Team here:

https://mtbo.hu/emtboc2018

Maps from the Nationals se below

19. June 2017

World Championship in Lithuania 2017

Reflection and thanks.

It hurt so much. Not even the ice could make me feel good and without pain. 17th was great from now of I could only think of getting ready for the mass start.

The mass start was a new discipline at the World Champs. I planned to keep up with the lead and did it the first map. Then I was stupid not to keep up with the new group I met at the star point. I stayed strong and made my own orienteering the next two maps. At the last map I chose to do it all by myself. Never do that!!! I thought I was smart and took a bad route choice to next control and I was behind a group again. I made up to the lead of the group and then Martina came around and took the lead in the group. I tried to stay as close behind as possible but we was riding through some mud and I got out of balance because one of the other girls was trying to get around and hit my handlebar. Suddenly I was in the back of the group. I gave it all to the finish and manage to take position in the sprint. 14th at the mass start. I knew I could better but I had still reached my goal. Top 15 at World Champs that was what I had hope for but I still new that it could have done better.

The relay was the one our team had looked much forward to. Although the teams conditions wasn't the best we all gave it what we had. A relay is about 3 good races and we wasn't able to make that. Nina had a race with to many mistakes. Like she says "it was maybe her worst race ever". I did my best to catch time out in the forest but with the longest forks and no riders by my side I new it was hard to do well. The lead was already long away. I took some positions in the forest and gave the hand further to Camilla. She did a good race but didn't make spread into it, she still took some positions and we ended up 7th. Not the position we wanted because we new we could do better thinking back at the relay at European Championships where we got bronze.

After the relay it was a strange feeling to get the motivation back in the right level but a least we had a rest day to find it back.

The preparation for the long distance had been on quite old maps. Nearly five different maps to make together to one to get a feeling off tracks and curve contours. After the mass start I new which speed I had to put into the race to get a good result. I new what my strength would be and I just had to give it all. Standing in the start box ready to fight for it all. My start wasn't the best thought I was longer than I was and took a path to early. I didn't used that long to find out what I had made and could fast be back on the right track and push hard and control the route choice to the next controls. I found the flow and took a simple route choice to the next control. Messed up again and now I really need to trust myself. I catch a group of riders there had started earlier than me and new that I had to focus even more. I made it safe and got safe to the finish line and ended up 13th very satisfied with my performance.

The sprint was the one I have had a lot of problems with the last couple of years. In long time I haven had a race there I was satisfied with my performance and with this in the mind I had to find a new strategy to make a good result. I sprinted up the first hill and made it safe to the first control. I had a great feeling of flow and every time I had to be ready with a new route choice I made it ready just in time. I can't say much about this race it just worked for me. The performance made it to 13 position again. World Championship was over and I had made my best results as senior.

I would like to thank all who had supported me through the last couple of years it means a lot then you are a student. Especially my boyfriend and family who always know what I need and support me through good and bad things. My sponsors: @222cycles for making it possible to have and awesome #whyte bike with the coolest setup. @abel-Nielsen for giving me the carbon map board which make the map stable on the bike through the bumpy forest. @vergesport for making the best clothes for riding in many hours. Thanks to the national team which it always is a pleasure to travel with and get to new highs with.

See maps below:

30. August 2017

World Cup 1# - Austria

The first World Cup is over and it has hade it's ups and downs. 

Sunday at the sprint I had really bad preparation before the race. At the way to the start quarantine I got chain problems and the chain was ending between the cassette and wheel inside the body. I tried to fix it alone but after trying some minutes there was a Spanish and French guy who ask me if I was alright and actually not. They helped me getting the wheel of. Borrow me a multi tool so I could take the end caps of and release the chain from the cassette and body. Afterwards I got the wheel on again but could still feel the problem. I went the last part up to the quarantine where Laura helped me fixing the gear. From that moment of there was only 10 min to my start. I was stressed and the adrenaline were pumping around in my body. I needed to calm down relax and find my way to the focus. The race went very well I just made two big mistakes and as you know every second count in at sprint. I ended up 18 satisfied because of the very bad preparation I still made it that well.

Monday and the last distance was the long distance I really needed things to work after to days with nothing working as I wanted. I was focused and prepared for the map since I had been looking at and old one. I knew that it would be difficult to complete the route choices with that many tracks ending up blind. I kept me plan and every time I was near loosing the focus I could control it. I made it up with no mistakes. Stopped then I need it and still tried to push. Ended up 8th very satisfied and a happy ending of the World Cup weekend. Thanks to Rainer Burman for taking these awesome pictures 📸📷 

More info:   https://www.wmtboc2018.at/mtbowc2017/

6. June 2017

MTBO Camp 2017

Thy - Around the Northern Jutland

1. Maj 2017

A week to World Championship in  MTB Orienteering

I also got the MAXXIS tires, both the IKON, ARDENT, IGNITOR and BEAVER for the next season and a XC helmet IXS KRONOS EVO. All the things is very usefull for the World Championchip. One week ago I got my frame back, beautifull and well done work from TR Carbon. The last week I been use to set up the right setup for the worl Championchip and the bike is ready now. I'm gonna be riding this beautifull MERIDA from 2012, it feels like riding a new bike so I'm ready for the World Championship who starts in one week with the Sprint distance.

18. July 2016

National Championchip 

- MTB Orienteering

Up to the National Championchip I didn't know what to expect. Camilla Søgaard hadn't been racing since she broke her elbow and we didn't know if she could get permission from the physiotherapist. At the day then it all start we knew who we were going to compete against. At Friday afternoon we was racing a sprint. I was prepared for it and knew that Skanderborg deer park was a tricky place where you should be careful and focus a lot on the orienteering. Then I started and I got the map in start moment I decided to check the whole course so I knew where to go from control to control. At the finish line I could see on the other girls split times that it has been the right to do. I was a minute faster than Nina Hoffmann at the second place, after her was Camilla Søgaard on a third place and then our young new senior girl Caroline Ryge Carlsen as fourth.

At Saturday we had our first National Championship in middle distance ever. It was exciting to see how it would be. The terrain was really technically both the tracks and the time you could read the map then you were on the bike wasn't that long, so that make the course difficult. I'm not satisfied with my performance. My orienteering was good in the first part of the course, but at the end of the race I didn't see the good rout choice and my mind began too "fuck with me". I got third two minutes up to Camilla Søgaard and one minute up to Nina Hoffmann. My first individual medal ever after being senior in W21.

Now there was only the Long distance back and I was the first on the start list in our class and I knew that if I could keep Camilla Søgaard and Nina Hoffmann behind me it would be a good result. My focus was to keep moving and know where to go. I was pushing on until the finish line and it worked. My orienteering had been good and I hadn't made any big mistakes. Now it was all about waiting for the others. Camilla Søgaard came in after 8 minute and she started teen minute behind me, so she beet we with two minutes and got the gold. I knew now that I had beet Nina Hoffmann who got third and I could be satisfied with the silver medal.

A Danish National Championship was over and I was happy about my to medals one of bronze an one of silver.

12. June 2016

MTBO Camp Åhus  

The Camp off the year. Crazy good terrains and good company together with the Danish team and other young lovely peoples. The whole MTB Orienteering family was together and ready to participate in the camp competition. All the maps from the camp is below with my routechoise. Enjoy. 

25. April 2016

SRAM Liga 1 - Hammel

17. April 2016

DCU Kolding

3. April 2016 

MTBO Trimtex Cup - Kolding

25. March 2016

Training Camp Portugal

From the 29. February to the 11. March went the Danish National Team to Portugal. The training camp was made so we could prepare the mindness for the World Championship this summer. We lived in the city Bunhosa near the Event Center in Cantanhede, where the World Ranking Event races would take place 5. and 6. March. The days up to World Ranking Event we found some track we could follow and read on the Garmin Computer, so we could bike around in the forrest and get use to Portugals forrest and terrain.​​The terrain at the coast is similar with the West coast in Denmatk with sand dunes and soft underground. Around Cantanhede where the Middle distance would take place was the terrain with typically vineyards, forrest and a lots of tracks. Around Luso where the Long distance would take place was the terrain hilly and a lot of edge on the tracks. On our way around on the tracks we got a feeling of the tracks and the terrain, and the movie shows a short part of the tracks.

Another day we went up in the mountains south of Coimbra and this was the warmest day on our training camp. We had found a single track on 72 km and went out biking. It was hilly and a different terrain with a lot of edge there the track was crossing the whole time. We got a good flow at the single track and it was nice to feel the bike working under my body. We short cut the rute some places and were out seven hours in the exciting and different terrain. We got a feeling off the terrain and the way the tracks can be in Portugal. It was cool to feel the sun burning on the legs and get the tan, and the first sun off the new year. This was how we had exspected Portugal to be, but until this trip up in the mountain it has been cold and wet weather. The sun shined and we got a lovely colour this day. We saw a castle on our way around the track and some caves, which the you can se at images.

The World Ranking Event (WRE) went out well, it was nice to feel the speed and the technique skills both on the map and the tracks. It was a different way to use the map in Portugal, because normally in Denmark you can't just move across the tracks, but in Portugal you can bike in the terrain and cross across the tracks. This makes the orienteering much more difficult and you have to think different, then you make the plan from control to control. Some places it was obviously to cros across the tracks and as the week went through it was easier to use the new skills. You can find the two course from the WRE at the end of the site.
After the WRE the real training camp started and it was time to get comfortable with the maps and the forrest in Portugal, without having the competition element in the mind. The camp gave me a good feeling of the tracks and the terrain and the typically way the Portuguese Organisation make the courses and the Mountainbike Orienteering meeting. So after this training camp I got comfortable with the maps and the terrain and the goal from this camp was done. You can se all the maps from the training camp here:

12. March 2016