Czech Republic

How do you "measure/describe" the size of a city? I tried yesterday to explain to my boyfriend, what the city where we are staying was like. Everything here in Czech is just a little bite different then back home. This city we live in, feels more like a small village because everything is so squeezed together. I took a walk today, and discovered 3-4 bigger supermarkets, restaurants, a gymnasium, an emergency, -I think it was clinic of some kind but, I don't read Chech, which I also tried to tell the policemen who locked my car in Plzen... But that's a hole different story.

So back to the original story, we live in an apparently medium size city, just about 20km from Tabor where next worldcup will

couple of days.be held this Sunday. The area for training here is great, you got like rolling hills, small roads without all the cars, forests and to top it all we had great sunshine and blue sky the first

If I turn the time back a bite. Then I arrived after 8 hours of driving in Plzen late Thursday evening, and quickly put the bike together and headed out for an easy spin, thinking that time was only 18:30, so I easily could get an 1 hour of spin, but after only 30min of riding, the dark came sneaking around the corner and I had to go back to the hotel. But hey 45 min is better then nothing right??

I knew the worldcup course from last year, where I didn't perform the best, we all know how last year was. With this in mind, I did my warm- up the trainer sunday. That this year I wanted it to be different! And after an okay start from 4row I found myself in the

top 25, after the experience in Ruddervoorde wo I just push the pedals way to hard to first 2 laps and then got too tired the final laps. Instead of I tried to take it as easy as you can when you are riding a worldcup the first 2 laps. Just staying in the windshelter from the other girls, as some

of them got more and more tired I could keep my speed

and overtook a few, so that I could sprint up hill to the finishline with my first top25!

It was such a great feeling seeing that I was the last one coming over the finishline, for the first time i 2 year, I didn't have to fight to make it to the final lap and I wasn't last when I finally crossed it. All this really motivated for me for the next worldcup in Tabor on Sunday, hopefully I can make another good result, but most importantly I had great FUN while riding and I keep on reminding me, that is all that matters this season.

I'm gonna end this blog post with some good pictures vibes from the area.