Farm life

I had a good time in Åre during the end of 2012 and starting 2013. Looking forward to see what this year has to enrich my life!
We were tourists on the slope and got some offpist but not so much snow and big risk of avalanches, but nice to just meet friends and hang around. On newyears day we had this great view from Åre Skutan.

Some pictures from christmas with friends, family and newyearseve!

Right now I´m in St Anton but I started this week in Hinterreit, we were pretty lucky with the training there cause it was warm and rainy some days. I stood on the SG skies for the first time in about a month, it was fun but I need some runs to get in to it again and build the confidence. It´s always nice in Hinterreit, we live just next to the slope and the farm, Peter and Renate takes really good care of us. I got a cold so Peter said his pearshots would help as a medicine… Don´t know if they do but now I´m starting to get healthy again.

 

Back in the game

So now I’m officially back in the game from my point of view.
8th place on a homerace in Åre was great and it was such a cosy/cool atmosphere there with the night race and perfect conditions! It was like when I was a kid then we always trained in the dark and with the lights on in Stockholm.
And then today’s skiing witch gave me a 6th place. 2 good solid runs. I found the timing in GS again and the joy to ski fast! Now home to Sweden and then Åre to celebrate the new year.

Have a great ending of 2012!

My & Jonas first mini Christmas tree

Happy for Fridas podium and Nathalie and Maria’s great results

Today’s pic

Home race

Night race in Åre, can’t be better! Good light, nice snow and I just feel good by being here. I will go for it, try to relax and ski better the last weekend. Enjoy!!

Swedish champ!

I defended my GS title from last year at nationals yesterday in I took my 13th Swedish champion title! Always nice to win and felt good to stand at the podium again Frida Hansdotter was second and Sara Hector third.
Huddinge skidklubb, my club witch Im racing for took a bronze in the team results, that’s great many years since we did that before. It was the time when me, Janette Hargin and Christine Hargin did speed events then we took normally gold.
Celebrated with cake and watching Loreen (Sweden’s contribution to Eurovision songcontest) in the evening!
The weather here in Åre is unstable and has been bad lately so they cancelled the DH this week but will run 2 GS races instead.
Hanging with mom this week!

I´m in love

Åreskutan
Feels so good to be here in Åre. Almost like a second home.
I have a sparkling feeling inside like when you have a crush!

Training GS with Julia today

Pavel

View from our sauna, same suite as last year on Tott hotel, really nice place to stay in.

I´m sleeping while Bono is watching me

Photoshot with Gösta Fries today, a portrait that will be auctioned for “my big day” sick kids that gets the opportunity to do what they want for a day!

Time to sleep now, adios!

Summer here I come!!!

Now I have had the skies and boots on for the last time this season! I’m pleased with the camp this week and it feels that we are working towards the right direction to become faster skiers. I had a individual talk with the coaches to talk about how I wanted things in the future so now we are on the same track.
Our new team captain Fredrik Steinwall were on place and he fit in straight away in the group and I think he will be good for our team!

winter feeling in may, not bad

My dear friend Karin who lives in Åre have such a cute puppy <3

This weekend I stayed in Åre to coach 90 kids from the region around Åre and Östersund. It was a lot of fun and interesting! Nice young people with good skills, I think we have some upcoming stars from this ones

Yesterday afternoon it was physical training

So summer here I come!

Back in Åre

So now Im back in Åre to ski for the last time this season. Coaches say it looks pretty ok with snow so I hope it will be a good week! Always nice to return here.
Feels a little bit off from everything that surrounds skiing when you’ve been at home for 2weeks.

Long time no blog..

Hallo!

I´ve been really bad lately.. last time I wrote here was 12 days ago. And now there is a lot to tell.

Last weekend the girls in the team had a bachelorette party for Tessan in the team, she´s getting married this summer We fooled here totaly which is actualy the hardest thing. She thought she would go on a ski holiday with here man to be but he droped here of on the airport cause he had a suprice and there we took over. We had a lot of fun during the weeeknd in Åre and it´s nice doing non skiing thing with the girls.

Waiting for Tessan to arrive to Arlanda

Tessan in her Bride to be cap

Then we had some GS FIS races in Björnrike and Klövsjö, Though conditions, soft spring snow some runs, last day last run I had a good feeling so then I could put the GS racing on hold until October

Beautiful morning in Klövsjö

Veronika and Frida ready to race

Ski funtastic weekend in Sälen/Lindvallen. It´s an annual event that the whole swedish ski team appears in! It´s a races for both men, women young girls and boys in the same slope. The guys has race one days and the ladies the day after. When I was a young girl this was the funniest and most exciting race on the whole year cause I could race in the same slope as the world cup racers as Pernilla Wiberg, Ylva Nowen and Claudia Riegler and then I could get the autographes from them afterwards. So now it feels good to do the same towards the younger ones. We also try to get more people to try other ski sports as ski cross, speed ski, moguls and telemark so they can ski around and try it all on place.
It´s a slalom race and I did ok, I finished 12th 3seconds after Maria PH but in the second run I was 0.8s after Maria and 0.2s after the girl with second best time that run, not to bad.

Big crowd in Lindvallen

Active life and Hello Sweden arrange a legends cup, parallel slalom with Ingmar Stenmark, Bengt Fjällberg, Ylva Nowen, Fredrik Nyberg, Gunnar Neurisser and more..

Our physio Dessan invited us for this years first barbecue, so good, thanks!

Forgot to tell you that I went to “a night with Peter Jöback” (a swedish singer/artist))with my mum, it was nice to hear stories from his life adn he playes really good music!

Okej enough for this time!

Carlsberg High Five in Åre

Im in Åre again and it’s nice as always  during the weekend I was taking part of Carlsberg Hive Five, an event with pro’s competing with and against amateurs always ending the day with an after ski on Fjällgården! It’s relaxed and a lot of fun to be a part of this kind of events and since I won the competition it glads me even more off course
Pro’s attending were, Maria Pietilä Holmner, Therese Borsse’n Hans Olsson, Jon Olsson, Andre Myhrer, Markus Larsson, Kaj Zachrisson, Sverre Liljeqvist, Jens Byggmark and some others as well! The weather was soso snowing almost all the time so the Skistar and Carlsberg people who host the event did a great job.

Sverre, Kaj, me and Tessan had a cross country challenge, fun but we lost..

After ski at Fjällgården
More pictures coming when I find Internet for my computer and
Sorry for being so bad updating lately..
Now nationals starts in here, cancelled today due to all the snow that’s been dumping the last week. Talk to you soon!

Åre resumé

After a great week in Åre I´m home in Stockholm for a short pitstop, travelling to Italy tomorrow again so it´s just to wash and repack but it´s nice just to be in the appartement!

In Åre we were very lucky with the weather, so beatiful alomst allt he time, a bit cold in the beginning -26 in the mornings but it´s just to dress right then it´s no problem. I had a really positive feeling in the DH training runs, it was pretty slow setting so I feld I wanted to go faster and had good confodent on the DH skies witch I haven´t had in the end.  I had 22nd and 15th time in the training runs.
On friday it was the super combi, I started with nr 7 and tried to go for it but in the second last jump I went to straight and missed the gate afterwards..
On saturday it was DH race and it was a bit faster on top so one gate was a bit tricky to fix and a lot of people went out there and the visability was soso, so I was a bit nervous but I smiled the first gates o get calm and then I enjoyed the skiing on the way down and finished 24th, best DH result this year anyway!
In the SG on sunday I wore bib 1, I really wanted revenge from fridays DNF and I went for it all the way, clean skiing and I had a nice flow and I finished 11th with a great support from the Swedish audience! I feld satisfied with that but it was tight only 40 hundreds of a second to the podium…

Åre village in sunset

On “olympiaplateau”

A lot of volunteers did a great job

Maria on start

Race slope

autograph signing

We tried the jacuzzi one afternoon, so nice!