robinwallner

Well… that kinda sucked balls.

Felt like a new person this morning after 10 hours of sleep.

Practice went well this morning too, did 4 runs and 2 of them were non-stoop just trying to work on the rythm.

I was planning on a safe run in qualifying since i don´t race for any overall points i just wanted to be safely in the final.

Anyway. Sam Hill was starting in front of me and forgot to put his transponder on and got late of the start leaving me with 9 sec to go when i got in the start. Got a bitstressed but goggles on and then of i went.

Started out steady and rode decent all the way just tryingto stay on my lines and not make misstakes. Everything was going smoothly but i must have punctured in the last rockgarden because when i got out on the open fast section after it i could feel i had a flat.

Tried to pedal like a german (everywhere) and jumped the last step-down with the flat but it was just to far down to the finnish.

I ended up 83^rd not even one second of a final spot. Almost thought i would make it but there was so many guys that beat me by one or two seconds. Times were realy tight with only 18 seconds from 80^th to first place so youcouldn´t afford any misstakes especially not a flat.

I´m pissed of as hell right now but next weekend is what i´m over here for so i still have some patience left.

Must say that this season has been the worst wc-season i had ever. It was just not meant to be.

Tomorrow i´m going to ride some xc and maybe do some runs in the bikepark here or something.

Bring on worlds.

Sooo we are there!

The great USA. Windham and the last world cup of the season.
Feels a bit sad that it´s almost over already!

Forgot to update of my Avalanche-race last weekend. Got on the podium there wich
was pretty decent on the dh-bike and good training for worlds!

Anyway. Trip here was going well except that we got delayed out of newyork sowe arrived a
couple of hour later then planned in Windham.
When here we struggled tofind our accomondation when we got the keys & went there disaster struck.

It was a shitty house that hadn´t been cleanedout after winter season, dirty sheets, rat-shit,
dust, garbage left from the last people staying there & a pretty freaky smell!

It was obvious that we couldn´t stay there but time was ticking.

I missed the trackwalk yesterday and thought it was bad enough, it was now 1 o clock and i
had been travelling from 10a.m and practice starting at 8.30 i was ready to do ONE THING
AND ONE THING ONLY! GO TO SLEEP!

So i went to sleep in the back of one of the cars until our national coach Fredrik & mechanic
Klas miracoulusly managed to sort out a new accomondation.

I felt like shit this morning already when i woke up.
I walked the track during first 2 hours of practice and then got on to trying to ride my bike.

Went down when i was rolling through my firstrun but after that it was going allright.
Tried to work on some lines & get up to speed but my head wasn´t realy following what
i wanted to do.

I did one timed run just trying to roll through the whole track in one run. Was thinking of
doing another run but thought to myself that "i better quit before i eat shit".

So made it through day 1 alive. Track is pretty good. No realy hard sections but realy fast
in some sections. Feel pretty confident that today will be better!

Laters.

Where to start...?

Everyone that follows this page knows i managed to get the win at eurochamps last weekend.

It´s easily the biggest achivement i had and i can tell you that after having struggled so much during
this season it felt so good you people have no idea.

From the pre-season suffering, slashing myself to pieces, seeing my brother flying chopper & hanging out at hospitals and a lot of behind the scenes stuff that has been hard for me it was such a big relief to finally get something good out of it.

My week in hafjell was great.



The startfield was better then last 2 years with Spagnolo, Camellini, Paulhan, Lehikoinen, Beer & quite a bit of top riders that had made their way up there.

The ones missing were the brits wich was a bit of a shame.

I was loving it from first run and i was pretty impressed with the track & the work they had put into it.


4 minutes of everything from big jumps, super fast sections, rockgardens & rooty woods you had to be allround &
smooth to put a full run together.

Went of track in my seeding run and was still 4th place so i knew i could be running for a medal but never realy
thought of the result that much.

I just wanted to have a good run and beat some of the fast boys to prove to myself that i can race my bike.

My run was pretty dialled just one misstake realy but i felt that i might have been a bit careful in some spots
but got in with best time and was sitting in the hotseat for quite a while.

When it was 3 riders left i was just thinking "holy shit it might actually happen" Matti was on a pinned run and up
a lot on me at the last split but ended up going over the bars in the last rocks thats when
Niklas & i were looking at eachother with that big "please-expression on our faces.

It was a sick win to me since it felt like racing on home turf so party was good.

After euros we had swedish champs in Åre so spent the week up here. I can tell you that pressure is on rocking up
as european champ at the national champs back home.

Practice was great. Like the track & feel like home up here so been happy all week.
Realy wanted not to qualify first so i was happy to be in 2nd place 0.06 of a second of first.

Finals day was sketchy!

Raining all night & starting to dry up when morning practice started i decided to keep my dry tires on.
Bad choice since it started raining at lunchtime again so i had to put the spikes on.

When it was time for the elite riders it had started to dry out quite a bit and it was super slippery at some spots and grippy in others so it was hard to know where to push & where to back of.

I started out with going over the bars in 5th turn up top. I hit my bars & hand on a rock in the inside of the turn
and got flipped over the bars.
It sucked.

After that i tried to make up time & made so many stupid misstakes i cant even bother to write about it.
Came in as 2nd place 1 second of cousin Herman leading & ended up 3rd 3 seconds of the win.

Pretty bummed since i guess i had a pretty good pace and i fractured my finger & wont be able to ride for a few days but thats racing & i wasn´t the only one to have a crash.

I will spend the week here in Åre & race the Avalanch here next weekend & the fly over to U.S for wc-finals & worlds.

Video will be up sooon!

Good times.

//R