It is the people that make the country
My experience of Oklahoma was great and really positive in every way. Especially for me the attitude of all the Americans who I met was a surprise. I have been in about 15 countries in my life and I have never experienced before the kind of hospitality, willingness to help and positive attitude that I experienced during my stay in Oklahoma.
The race course
The race was held in Oklahoma River at Boathouse District in USA Canoe/Rowing Olympic and Para Olympic training center. I have to say that the investment of 150 million US dollars for the training facility really showed and had made everything look good. (at least when you compere to our home lake where we have only two shipping containers for boat storage) The course it self was really nice and easy to paddle. It was very hot week the temperature stayed the whole time in max 30 c which was challenge for us because we were used to 5-15c. We also had little bit difficult time to find suitable boats for us since we were not able to bring our own kayaks. Lucky for us the other teams were willing to help with kayaks for training and for racing.
the K1 race 27.9 Saturday
My first race of the weekend was my K1 25km in senior women. The competition was won by Renata Csey which was her 14th world championship title. For me the competition was a challenge from the start to the finish, with fighting against the could and coughing and the heat that got the better of me. Big thanks to Danish Katrine G. Christensen for letting me use your boat at the race!
link to the results of all races: http://results.deltatiming.com/cam/2014-icf-cam-world-championships#.VCv5Ovl_uaI
The K2 race Sunday 28.9
Day two of racing for me and our main race of the year with Tuisku. All ready to go.. what could go wrong.. we had good boat which was barrow from the team Canada. Big thanks for letting us use the K2!! So of we went to the heat. We were comfortably sitting in our group until the 4th portage. We twisted our rudder and lost all the control of the K2 after we got back to water. Quickly we got on the platform and our Coach Nic ran over to fix the rudder for us. After getting the tools and getting the rudder sorted we made a decision to continue the last three laps of the race. One and the half lap to go I started to feel dizzy and powerless. I told Tuisku that my "lights are shutting down" that does she has anything motivational for me for the last lap and a half. She said that we can do this and it will be over soon.. as it was. We managed to finish the race after all difficulties in the race.
After finishing we got of the water. As we did so I started to have symptoms of the heat stroke and dehydration which were feeling could, shaking and feeling dizzy. After couple minutes the paramedics were taking care on me and the ambulance was called. So I ended up to Hospital after the race for getting some Ice and fluids to my over heated body. Thanks to the professional staff I recovered in couple hours enough to get back to the race course just to see the epic finish of men K2 race as Hank Mcgregor and Jasper Mocke won gold.
Of the Results:
These world championships was for me the bottom of the wave. I'm not happy about the results and of course I'm very disappointed because me, my coach and my K2 partner Tuisku worked the whole season hard for better results and now that we did not get the result that we wanted is disappointing. I think the only thing to say is that it was a hell weekend at the office and hopefully it wont happen again any time soon.
I also want to want thank my coach/ Husband Nic Riosa for all the work of this season! Special thanks to Tuisku for all the training and K2 racing on this season and getting me through the finish line in world champs! Special thanks also to all the teams and people who helped us during the world champs!!
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