– In any case, it will not be relevant to have a new session before seven o’clock! Heidi Weng has sat down on a staircase, leans against the concrete wall and closes her eyes. It is past 2.30pm, and it is clear that she is tired after more than two hours of interviews and promo recording. Now she is waiting to be driven from Høgskolen i Innlandet’s premises in Lillehammer to the cabin at Mosetertoppen. She needs to rest. Weng has always been fond of teasing. But since she hit her head on the ice and suffered a severe concussion in March last year, the need has been precarious. For over a year, she was practically completely out of the game. – It is mostly constant, Weng said of the headache when news met her at Sognefjellet in June. Train with the men But even if she now needs a couple of hours in a horizontal position, something has happened in the months since the meeting at Sognefjellet. It was very visible a few hours earlier in the day. At that time, the national team women had an elk farm interval in the alpine facility at Hafjell. The fact that Heidi Weng is allowed to participate in hard training sessions at all is something new. Before the session, she frolicked around in familiar style. – No, I forgot the pulse belt! It was some stuff, she noted and laughed ironically at herself. The fact that she forgets things need in no way be a symptom that something is wrong with a skier who, despite everything, has taken NM silver with the ski suit back to front. Already on the first move she jumped from her teammate. Instead, she relied on the recruiters. HAD TO STOP: Heidi Weng ran five interval moves with the recruit men, but when they started the sixth, she had to stop herself. Photo: Anders Skjerdingstad / news Must slow down After four strokes she was supposed to stop, but the feeling was so good that she went on one more. – A bit awkward, I feel a bit cowardly, she had to admit when the gentlemen started the sixth move. – Actually, it’s a good sign, because it means she’s vital. But she could have remembered the heart rate belt, we like to have control during training, says national team coach Sjur Ole Svarstad to news. He confirms that Weng is a completely different person now than he was three months ago. – I have to slow her down a bit. She is eager during the day, he says. – I actually think it came loose in July, says Heidi Weng. “Gee, this was a good day” The pain is less and less frequent. And she thinks it’s about the fact that she has, to put it with a cliché, “taken action”. – I work a lot with what I have been told to work with, she says. – What have you been told to work on? – Actually, just starting over. Practice everything again. One of the things she started practicing was driving a car. She had to challenge herself to drive in bends. – Suddenly I could drive for 20 minutes without noticing anything and thought “geez, this was a good day”. You will be extra pleased that it feels good then, and “I managed this”, she says. BETTER TIMES: Heidi Weng sees the coming season much brighter than the one she left behind. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB Charming aunt In January, Heidi Weng also became an aunt. The 32-year-old knows it helped her through last year’s tough season, where she had to withdraw from the WC team due to a head problem. – That is perhaps the most positive thing. My sister lives 100 meters away and I probably come by almost every day, whether it’s an hour or less or more, she says, smiling broadly. – Now he says “Heidi”, and I am charmed by that. It is incredibly cosy. Even though last winter was largely a mess, Heidi Weng got a podium place from the world cup. It says a lot about the potential when he actually gets to train. Perhaps he will be the Swedes’ toughest competitor in the winter. – That would have been fun. We’ll see, she says.
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