17 March 2010

6th in the World! Vancouver Paralympics

Wow, what an experience!

The race schedule was reshuffled due to bad weather so I ended up racing earlier in the week than planned. Happily my parents managed to change flights and make it over for the giant slalom race. Disappointingly that was the race I messed up. I was lying 7th after a respectable first run, but the fog came in, the desire to win took over, I pushed it too hard in the 2nd run and ended up the wrong side of control (its a fine line)! I hiked but couldn't pull it off.

I plan to learn from the experience, and certainly showed courage and determination, but its hard not to feel bad. I have worked hard to get to such a big event.

Luckily I did a storming second slalom run and finished in 6th position. That is 6th in the world!

To see the video click on the title of this blog, go to 'latest' then:

AS S Finals sit vis Women Day2

AS Giant Slalom Women Sit 1stRun Day4 - 5min10s

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Anna,

What an amazing effort and a superb achievement to come 6th in the Slalom in the world!

Well done!

Best wishes and a have safe return home,

Jim and Sue Houghton

Plum said...

Anna, you are amazing! Looking forward to seeing you soon. Lots of love, Plum xxx