O-laranjitas Iberian Champions!

Hello!

How are you ? :)

Last weekend we went to Idanha-a-Nova to run the Iberian Championship with the portuguese team. Mariana and Joana run in W16 and Isabel run in W18. Saturday morning was the midle distance..W16 had 2,6km and W18 3,6km. Mariana took the victory in the morning and won ! Joana was 2nd :) Isabel won too :) the weather was terrible! We couldnt see anything 2 metres in front of us because it was so cloudy...The terrain was good, but the map?! puffff...

After a great lunch in the restaurant we ran the sprint distance at 15.30h . And you can't believe what happened , Joana won to Mariana for just 1 second! It was a very short race for the 16 girls, with just 1,5km. In W18 Isabel won again :)

After the race we were really tired, but happy :) the arena was amazing, the music was nice, and the spanish team is also great :D

We went to the hotel for a looooong shower and then we went dinner, with all runners in the competition. We had a nice dinner, with all our friends and after that was the prize giving cerimony, where we received funny gifts xD ( a traditional instrument from Idanha a Nova)

After a long night and a nice breakfast, Sunday morning, at 9.30, long distance started. W16 had 3km (come on just 3? are you kidding?) and W18 had 5,1km. Joana won again, but just for 15 seconds for the spanish girl, Violeta Feliciano, Mariana was 3rd just 48 seconds behind Joana..Isabel lost 15 minutes in a control (she loved the map so the decided to see it better xD), however she was able to won the long distance too. OH YEAH , she made the 3 distances ;)

After a rainy day again we took a great shower, had lunch with the spanish team and then the prize giving cerimony. The organization gave us the traditional "thing" again! :D It was the last competition in 2008 so it was time to say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy new year" :)

This week is the terrible one at school so we are going to be closed in our rooms studing a lot! We are going to try to keep trainnig, but for now, the important is the last tests week :/ wish us luck!

It was an excellent weekend and we are proud :) Its time to say, YES WE CAN ? :D

Bye bye ,

O laranjitas..