Coach, Danny and I had to endure the 20km...5x4km loops with 4 shoots (prone, stand, prone,stand), focusing on our technique throughout the race rather than getting race-brain and burning ourselves out.
Luke and Mat being senior novices had to do the slightly shorter 15km race...5x3km with the same sequence of shooting.
"What time do you call this?" Bellowed the coach, as I strolled onto the zeroing point fashionably late. Theere were no problems zeroing and everyone's confidence was high for the race ahead.
Before the race we tested a couple of different skis, to see which set were faster and felt better to ski on. Sampling the course and its difficult decents also gave us the confidence we needed to push our selves even more.
I have just seen the official results and in the 20km race the Coach came 9th, Danny came 20th and I came 18th. In the 15km race Mat came 1st and Luke 2nd in the senior novice category. Check out our progress on the BBU website (http://www.britishbiathlon.com/pages/BritChamps2012.htm) for all the results and photos
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