It’s 8 weeks since season 2019 is over and it’s happened a lot. One week after the return from China, the Swiss Orienteering Grand Slam Final was the last competition of this season and also one of the last times running for a while, what I didn’t know back then. After some days, where I wasn’t training at all, I had no patience for training break anymore. This leaded to a training load my body wasn’t used to anymore after the short break. Therefore, a very beautiful 3 hours long run to the near Chasseral ended in a quite painful experience. The recovery for the inflammation in my hip flexor tendon then, took longer than I thought. But after 6 weeks, I’m finally back in almost normal training again and I’m enjoying it more than ever! And luckily the inflammation didn’t mean to take a break from training, so I watched quite a lot of movies while training on the crosstrainer.
2019 is coming to an end and I can look back at an amazing first season as a senior. Turning back time one year, I hadn’t thought of such a successful year for sure! But here is 2019 in a nutshell:
January:
· 1 week xc-skiing in Pontresina with University, where I could improve my technique
· 5 orienteering days in Ticino with the national team
February:
· 10 days orienteering in warm and sunny Portugal with the national team
March:
· First ever misspunch at the Swiss Night Champs
· Danish Spring with some nice competitions
April:
· From Danish Spring I went directly to Norway, where 14 orienteering trainings were added to my experience of WOC-terrain
· Swiss Champion on Middle Distance and 21st birthday at the same time
· 5 days in Slovenia with Easter4 and some nice trainings
· 10mila victory with Tampereen
Pyrintö
May:
· Selection Races for World Cup Finland in really nice terrain in France (and also some snow…)
· New 5000m personal best
· 13 more orienteering trainings added to the Norway list – 1 week trainingcamp in Sarpsborg with the national team
June:
· 4 days running, road biking, relaxing and eating in Black Forest (GER) with my family
· World Cup Finland with satisfying performances, a bad cold (even though it was about 30 degrees…) and the second place in Sprint Relay
· Some days and one exam from university at Haanpääs mökki (and of course some orienteering in Ponsa!)
· 3rd place in Venla Relay with Tampereen Pyrintö
· 1 week at university with rowing, bike orienteering, climbing, hiking, inline skating and biking
· Victory for the White Tigers at 5er-Staffel, the biggest relay in Switzerland
July:
· WOC Selection Races in Sarpsborg with some nasty upset stomach
· JWOC in Denmark as a spectator and rerunning the courses
· One week girls-holidays and running in Malmö with Mirj
· O-ringen in Norrköping with friends and some nice training competitions on the way to WOC (and my first ever indoor orienteering competition)
· 1 week WOC training camp in Sarpsborg with 11 orienteering trainings more added to my experience
August:
· Some trainings at Swiss O Week in the Bernese mountains
· WOC in Norway with a lot of surprises and 3 medals which outclassed all my expectations
· After-WOC-depression
September:
· 3rd place at Swiss Sprint Champs
· Worst 5000m race ever
· SM-weekend in Finland with two victories (Relay and Sprint)
· World Cup Switzerland with my first k.o.-Sprint, a 2nd place in Middle and 3rd in Sprint, which brought me up to 2nd place in World Cup overall standing
October:
· My first sprint camp with 12 sprint trainings in southern France with the national team, where I could improve my sprint skills
· World Cup Final China which caused some thoughts about our sport, but had also it’s qualities and the 2nd place in Overall World Cup 2019
November:
· 3rd at Swiss Champs in Team orienteering with the White Tigers
· Grand Slam 2019 victory
· Trying to do a season off and failing à inflammation of my hip flexor tendon and no running for the next weeks needed some patience and mental strength
· But lead to testing the cross trainer for the first time, which I can really recommend now!
December:
· Promi-Staffel at Steinhölzlilauf was a great experience!
· 2020 kick-off with the national team in Magglingen and a lot of sitting and listening
· Starting running again finally and running at Silvesterlauf
· Sports Awards in Zurich as a great end of sports year 2019, I felt very honored to be there
· Christmas with my family
And since two days I'm in Goms, where I’m spending most of the time on my cross-country skis! And after that, it’s time for the first trainingcamp of 2020, a running camp in Madeira, where I hope my hip flexor will cooperate!
At this
point, I would like to thank everyone, who made 2019 so special and even
possible. A big thanks to my sponsors and supporters, to coaches, my family and
friends, to my clubs and everyone else! THANK YOU, KIITOS, TAKK, MERCI, DANKE,
GRAZIE MILLE!!!