hi all,
thanx everybody for the congrats, i appreciate it very very much.
the comp was very nice, i just wish i had more time to train for fi and especially unsassisted, which is a very beautiful discipline, where i wished i did more.
congratulations also to the other competitors, all very nice people, which made a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere, with everybody congratulating everybody else after every performance, and nobody playing being the star. well, maybe that happens everywhere else, but being my first comp i was very impressed by that.
well, of course congratulations to Natalia M. for the 2 WR, and to Natalia Avseenko who, very quietly (and with a very bad flu) did a 50 mt unassisted equalling the WR for 8 minutes, before Molchanova did her dive!
thanks Monica and Eusebio for the beautiful movie they made of the comp. hey you find 2 WR's in there! plus my samba in static! Eusebio even managed to get second in the overall men, even though he was up every night editing for the movie!
thanks to Bill and Erez for all the white cards they gave me, even though that cost me quite a lot in drinks at the blue hole restaurant!! (just kidding!)
thanx to Natalia M., because she didn't compete in cw so i got a medal for the deepest performance!!
thanks to Andy from germany, who's going to sell me his paradisia, so i can go and train unassisted a bit more seriously. (p.s., subaquaticus, i really recommend you to buy one yourself, apparently it's worth the money!!)
thanks to Peter for the very good organization, everything ran very smoothly until the end, and the personnel he chose was always so very careful in not letting any of the competitors swimming away with one of the official D9 after their performance! (i tried that 3 times myself, and it never worked!)
thanx to Wolle, who brought me some real parmesam from civilized europe!
thanks to the weather, it could have been much better, obviously, but it could have been also a little bit worse...we had 4 days of medium-stormy weather, and the last day was even cloudy (which happens max 2 times a year here!!),but everybody survived!
my special thanks to Roland, the best coach, who always tells me the right thing to do and how to train properly. the last week before the comp, while everybody was diving every day, he had me sitting around, eating and scratching my belly (and being frustrated because i wanted to be in the water!), but obviously rest is as important as training, especially before a 4 days event.
well, i think that's it. now i'm gonna go home and sleep 3 days!
cheers,
linda