From 28-30th December the Italian Junior and Elite Team was in Gluringen(Switzerland) for 2 Swiss-Cup-races.
I had to work as translator for my team since I am the only one who knows German well, but this was quite funny.
At first evening I got a surprising information, I had to run in MEN-Elite (I am still for 3 Years Junior), first I was a little shocked but then I saw it as a challenge and put myself the goal to beat one of Italians Elite athletes.
Second day there was the first race a long-distance WRE but for my luck it was not too long just 11.2km with 430m climb. At the beginning I found a good flow and skied quite fast on the small tracks, some wrong RC but not bad run, at the end of 1st lap the Italian Guy who started 6mins behind me. I could keep me in front of him with some good RC.s but on the flat big tracks he got and overtook me. At second lap I was not anymore in a good shape so I had to reduce speed and did some concentration mistakes and at last control the Italian Elite skier who started 12mins behind me reached me. At the end results seems better than it is, I arrived 15th and other Italian 10th, 13th, 14th but the gap was quite big as expectet. But I did 2-3 best Italian splits (on scooter tracks)
Yesterday there was the Sprint on the program and I had same goal as the day before, beat an Eltie runner, the coursesetting did me a favour and tehre where just 2legs on big tracks, I found a good flow and did only 1 mistake and many many times I felt because of the wet snow which was really soft. I was 2mins behind best Italians and beated on of them =))). So I am quite happy and today there is gonna be a party at home.
