Altenberg World Cup and European Championships.
After all having Christmas at home, we set of at 4am on New Years Day for the drive across Europe to Germany.
Gill has joined up with the team again after being on Europa Cup and Kelly has gone to St Moritz, Switzerland, to race with our GB2 Driver.
Altenberg nicknamed “Altensmash”, thankfully did not live up to it’s reputation for Great Britain.
We had a good weeks sliding on the track where Paula and Kelly Thomas qualified for the Vancouver Olympic Games.
There has been much amusement this week in the girls room with Bec’s Gok Won toiletries, which seemed to cheer Paula up! The maid finding stones in Gills bed (not sure about that one!) and Paula being extremely happy about the shoe horn she found!
We have also figured out areas of weakness, and so to survive Team Walker:
1. Don’t click the keys on your laptop after 9pm…
2. Don’t eat crisps next to Gill on a plane…
3. Don’t tell Bex her calves look big in striped socks!
As the weather deteriorated towards the end of the week, we prayed that it would not snow on race day. Luckily it did not and Paula and Bex had two good runs finishing in their best ever result of 8th place on World Cup and 7th in the European Championships.
Their starts were ranked 8th and 6th in the world.
We stayed to watch Team Jackson in the 2man event on Saturday, who finished with a solid result in 14th. A one lauf race, due to the weather.
Onto Konigssee now for round 5.
Hope you all had a good christmas and new year…
Love Team Walker
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