It was an amazing experience for us to win the world cup race in Madrid . It's the third year running that we've taken first place at this race track, which has become a classic of sorts within mountain biking circles. We've entered an exciting and important phase of the 2006 season, with three world cup weekends in a row, so this result was a big positive.
The weekend before we took part in the Bundesliga at Heubach in the south of Germany, which was a demanding and exciting warm up before the World Cup race. We arrived in Madrid on Monday afternoon and the week was used for some rest, training and fine tuning with a focus on regaining energy. Through the past weeks my physical shape has been steadily improved, and we've received the feedback we'd been looking for on the race track, regarding both my feeling physically and my performance.
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