Since I was 27 I have wanted to compete in the MAsters!!  I tried once in the Chop Washed up Cup(Deano Johnson).  I was told to go away and come back when I was of mature age.  So this year at the tender age of 30, I finally got to compete against the established older crew of ladies!!!

We raced slalom and boarder cross.  I cheated though as I wanted to get close to the boys times in the boarder cross.  So I went and got a different board (the new version of my old trusty fast board Rome BLUE )and race waxed!!  It worked with my qualifying time being in the top 5 and only 1 second behind my boyfried.  Something he wont live down.  I still put that second down to his extra 30kg!! 

So all in all being a master is fantastic, even though im only a grommie one.  In 5 years time I will become a MASTER BATER!!!  I cant wait to reach that level

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Its funny to read through my first blogs and read about "learning lifes lessons the hard way" and my quote about, "if your bucked off the pony, get back on and ride to the hills" they really become reality when I read the avalanche story and both those things relate 100%.  Im a stubborn person who would never learn something if it didn't scare me.  Just a small "slide" wouldn't teach me the dangers of the mountain.  It had to happen the way it did to get it through to my thick head.  Now I need to also learn, not be a hypocrite, take my advice and get back on that pony and ride to the hills.  It scares me when I think about going back to Austria and being confronted by big mountains.  It also scares me when i go running in the dark.  Life scares me as I have learnt that the worst things can happen to me, not just people I dont know.  Fear is one of the biggest things we need to confront.  They say that people that have no fear and get pleasure from being in life threatening situations have a little something extra in the brain that normal people don't have.  I think i'm in the "normal" catorgory as im a "scaredy pants"

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