What a wonderful weekend...
My first senior Nations Cup and Merlin's second, and we came 3rd! Such a blast - have never experienced anything like it. Think I was very lucky to be a part of this particular team as we were close-knit from the get go. Jens and Erika (who are both very experienced) made a point of generating a certain atmosphere from day 1.
Round 1: Jens clear, Nicolina 8fts, Me 4fts, Erika 4fts.
I jumped straight into the water... don't ask me why. We just weren't on the same page - its amazing the things you dwell on after a course walk just because you heard something in passing. I happened to be walking behind the french team who were just going on and on about it - "look far behind the water etc etc" for some reason its all I could think about, and poor merlin got lost in translation. He jumped beautifully otherwise.
After round 1 we were in 3rd position. And we made sure to stay there!
Round 2: Jens clear, me 8fts, Erika clear.
She had some amount of pressure on her after my round, and she certainly delivered! As for myself I was much calmer and focused than i thought I would be i.e. didn't totally fall apart as I had in the nightmares weeks before... That said, i just couldn't get that water out of my head - managed to drop another foot in it this time and then a fence down after that. Merlin deserves all the credit though, in two full rounds he only had one fence down and barely broke a sweat.
Overall not too bad, we were 3rd out of 11 nations, the second best swedish result in the promotional league so far, which brought us to the head of the league for the first time (by 3points) - just what we need to get back into the Meydan league!
Wishing the team in Drammen the best of luck this weekend!
As for me; heading to Roeser (Lux) Thursday morning then CSI4 Fontainebleau - my "Grand Parquet" comeback a decade later :-)
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