Skrevet av: Dag B. Urdal translated by Thibaut L.
Dato: 12.03.2009 08:56
The moods in the Karasjok camp are spent but jovial, while the first teams are ready for the departure. Inger-Marie Haaland has fought herself to the top, but now she feels the nerves. Kjell Brennodden is a bit scared to remember that he can't sit on his sledge this now. Because he changed his traditional sledge (with a chair on the back), for a new sledge that is much lighter.
- All the way to Karasjok I drove from stage to stage, just relaxed, says Haaland. - But now the nerves arrive. To be completely honest it is really getting hot now. I am most scared to drive wrong, she underlines. Inger-Marie drove out of the checkpoint at 08:59, later than planned.
Kjell Bernnodden tries to reassure the first time driver. He is taking it easy, with all his experience. He changed his chair sledge, to a lighter racing sledge. So it will be a fewer kilos to carry on the mountain. - The problem is just, that I am so used to sit. He says. - So, if you see a sledge without driver, you've to stop it he says to Inger-Marie.
It is all about the hut and the honour now, but we don't have do forget that it is all about animals here. Says Kjell, which had to set up 5 minutes after Inger-Marie. If she doesn't succeed this time, then she wants Kjell to be the owner of the world. What a generous lady.
The moods in the Karasjok camp are spent but jovial, while the first teams are ready for the departure. Inger-Marie Haaland has fought herself to the top, but now she feels the nerves. Kjell Brennodden is a bit scared to remember that he can't sit on his sledge this now. Because he changed his traditional sledge (with a chair on the back), for a new sledge that is much lighter.
- All the way to Karasjok I drove from stage to stage, just relaxed, says Haaland. - But now the nerves arrive. To be completely honest it is really getting hot now. I am most scared to drive wrong, she underlines. Inger-Marie drove out of the checkpoint at 08:59, later than planned.
Kjell Bernnodden tries to reassure the first time driver. He is taking it easy, with all his experience. He changed his chair sledge, to a lighter racing sledge. So it will be a fewer kilos to carry on the mountain. - The problem is just, that I am so used to sit. He says. - So, if you see a sledge without driver, you've to stop it he says to Inger-Marie.
It is all about the hut and the honour now, but we don't have do forget that it is all about animals here. Says Kjell, which had to set up 5 minutes after Inger-Marie. If she doesn't succeed this time, then she wants Kjell to be the owner of the world. What a generous lady.