The second training camp for the Austrian ladies brought the technic and speed groups together for a week of training in Lärchenhof in Erpfendorf. The five-day camp saw the ladies including Elisabeth Görgl and Anna Fenninger to get going at full power from Day Two. Mountainbike guide Kurt Exenberger showed the way for both the slalom specialists and downhillers onto the new Lisi Osl Trail in Kirchberg. Over the course of a distance of 2,3 km the ladies had to cover an altitude drop of 450m.
Michaela Kirchgasser: „For me this was the first time riding a trail of this type. I have ridden my mountain bike on various nature trails before, sometimes falling, but luckily today all went well. It is great to have a camp together with the speed ladies, we can catch up in the summer too and not just when we are back on skis.“
Elisabeth Görgl: „The downhill ride was something new for me, and very exciting, attractive and full of adrenaline, so very similar to skiing. I seldom ride downhill on wooden ramps - that was truly special. The joint camp here in Erpfendorf is a great chance for us to get to know each other beyond the pistes – and on different terrain.“
ÖSV conditioning coach Hannes Zöchling added: „For us the focus of today's training was coordination, fine motoric skills and balance. On the Lisi Osl Trails we also tested the courage. We are a team and want to present ourselves as one, that is why this was the second joint camp in Lärchenhof.“
Racers participating: Margret Altacher, Eva-Maria Brem, Alexandra Daum, Anna Fenninger, Andrea Fischbacher, Elisabeth Görgl, Michaela Kirchgasser, Stefanie Köhle, Regina Mader, Stefanie Moser, Bernadette Schild, Nicole Schmidhofer, Christina Staudinger, Carmen Thalmann, Mariella Voglreiter.
Super combined world champion Anna Fenninger shows how to ride down the steep trail
Heavy weight training supplements the endurance and other outside training as shown by Lizz Görgl (Photos OeSV)
