Good morning please smiling =) . What’s up?
Today was a great exhausting day on the track and in the freestyle Gym. Yes, in fact Philipp was all the day on the track doing his races, he will tell you about that;
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Philipp: In the morning Felipe, Monika and me came to the bus station. A lot of unicyclist were waiting impatient. They weren’t so lucky because the right bus didn’t stop. Probably as that there wasn’t enough space to sit. Great… We had to wait too. The next 23 Bus was coming in 1hours later. This is why we took number 3 but with this decision we had to walk 20minutes. Never mind. I was looking forward doing my course today.
It started with the 800m. It was really cool – 2nd place. I’m very happy with this result. I’m was under the 6 fastest rider and qualified for the 800m Experts. But before the Expert 800m started I rode the 400m and the 100m. In the afternoon was the Expert 800m. On the first 300m Kobayashi (Worldchampion) was in the front of us. I wanted to give all so I fought me forward. 100m later I was next of him. Then for 200m I was in front of the best riders. Hopely I can keep my position, I was thinking. Near the Finish line the Kobayashi and two other Unicyclist were faster then me. Finally I was in the 4th place. My conclusion was…. I hadn’t one…I was as like fast as in my age group and that’s pretty good because I had already done a lot of race before. So the 800m Expert are finished. Now I didn’t have a lot of time anymore. This evening I had to do a Freestyle Pairs routine. Surly Emile was waiting for me but I still had some competitions. I qualified fot the Expert 400m.After this first day on the Track I had 2 Medales in the pocket. Hopefully I can get an other tonight but it was the question how fit I still will be….
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What’s bout me, I began my day by practicing freestyle in the gym. It was nice because a lot of people were on the track too, so I was nearly alone in the gym. Only Basile and Thomas were here for a while and Britta and Bernd (from Germany), the others were some japanese freestylers. When I was at the point to leave the gym, David and Gilles arrived and Ryohei and Karan offered us some presents from Emiko (coach of TOYODA, which the unicycle’s club of Hirosaki) and from ours japanese families! ;o) So cute!!
Then I went back to the hostel to prepare myself because this evening we (Philipp and I)competed for the artistic pairs freestyle. So you can imagine how scary I was….What’s more we were the first of our category (age group 15+) to present our routine.
At 19h00 all the competitors were ready. We had a few time for practicing and I chose this time for scratching me on the ground…I was riding and suddenly I was landing on the ground, I didn’t understand what’s happened, I just felt my ass and my ankle hurting but fortunately it was not so hard and two minutes later I was on the side of the competing area waiting for the judges being ready.
“The next competitors are Philipp Henestrosa and Emilie Stegmüller from Switzerland…” Aaaaaaaaaah….
Three minutes later It was done… I fell down one time and Philipp didn’t do his backwards arabesque but It was pretty good… what do you thing, Philipp?!
Then we watched the others competitors of our category and of the next category (age group 20+)
After that went the moment of the awards, we got the third place ( my first medal!!) I think Philipp was not so satisfied but for me it was good; Better than the previous UNICON (and I hope worthier than next) and the groups who got the first and second places were japanese.
Britta and Bernd got the first place of the category 2o+!!! That’s so good, I’m proud of them, their routine was so cool or…romantic!
Back to the hostel I phoned my parents and went sleeping…
Emilie
