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i renewed being is a weld beating wood shop. but there's one title and she has yet to not shop. jim and champion, and she's determined to call herself a 3rd the size of history. ah ah, it's 2 days until the german would shopping championships get under way time for a final practice. i've picked up some word and i'm ready to go. mm hm. who being is a one woman show?

she does have a manager or any coaches and has practically no sponsors. ah, the only company she has now and again, is her cat getting hold of the quality timber she needs training is a daily challenge with him. i'm happy it was really difficult for us to get any word amy at all. the other people will say do training with my what for can yes. so i just started just shop and firewood in order to build up strength. it happens i but only my technique was impossible of the bone about taking a training clinical dish market for the past 2 weeks. i ruin has been battling a stubborn cold and struggling to get into proper shape. but she can't afford to take time out from lumberjack training. irene's favorite instrument is the change. with my yamaha to years ago,

i became the world record holder, the fastest person to soft disks from a tree try haven't including man, cut them off, got some one else, then overtook me up. but my record for women is still since my quarter, which is under the cool with play on will kind of connect through to recruit. ah roon, who being lives in the village of mush time in west, in germany. her passion for a classic men sports has raised more than a few eyebrows here. breaking as it does with traditional norms and notions as the thought here it is still a bit tricky here on the general's frontally, a woman working with a chainsaw into sports is very uncomfortable for men in the region. is her daughter, is there one to push you in the summer? they look at you as if you were from out of spacing. my though if my mazin me for more undercooked. ah,

the 2nd discipline in her spouse is the hands saw and the women's record holder here is al moon irving, of course. so think she get source for free. think again, it's really, although it's not easy to get hold of us all like this. i ordered 15 years ago and it still hasn't arrived. i got this one as usual. it's 25 years old and still costs me $1800.00 euros, including sharpening or price. a piece of scrap metal from foil a stroke. ugly toast. with coin by hand. this serious grind work, i ruin only goes into competitive wood shopping 5 years ago. and she's now pushing 50. ah, there's quite a lot. i'm happy and grateful to be in such good shape or unable to compete at the highest level. i actually have more muscles now than i had when i was 21. i like having an athletic and soften body. i always did

a little food confused. in my mind, i wounds cat her indulges in his own kind of timber, grinding the cup, wait for our room to be done. i suppose him out of the wood shavings are always cool for the cat. when somebody, when they've been drying out in the sun for a while, he loves rolling around and them shoes when he hops into my bed later on and they can get good a bit, eci fried her hand. finally, there's the acts disappearing where i rule only holds the german record. it's repeatedly been her weakest event as a minute my to for ye castilla bisman, as the lads are always telling me, god. but i've managed to get by using my strength and a little bit of technique and disinterest. nick long from a villarille's wing room with a big thwack, swing a box for me. you see others who are a lot faster out, am bam, incredible pace,

for instance. what crucial for me is making clean strokes by me. otherwise, if you didn't bother mahogany, it was only for the, for a women with a passion for wielding and acts and the change. so she does still get funny, looks and sneers to her continuing astonish. i grew up learning that if you're good at something, you should do it one to live. this guy came at some salt, then you should do that. coffin cut to make and cook them. he should you have their mortal. and if she's handy with a chainsaw, then that does every one dust with her best that and we all, bella must have one. ah, the big event is now just one day away. i'm being packed some fresh provisions from her own garden and green house head if there is a 400 kilometer drive to the hot mountains. this is all to this is my rolling home,

my own hotel, but i always spent the night in there, but i don't need a proper hotel. oh boy, yes. monitor. oh so by i have everything here, a comfortable bed and i can make my own coffee. i called it the luxury is good. some clue. i always get this intense feeling. so it's not as if i'm like this, but it is exciting. goodness. i've competed in so many meats over the years, but the boss is still their mom. mm hm. uh huh. ah, here i've arrived and i'm pretty wacked time for bed and hopefully i'll go straight to sleep. it's an early start is not often can i have to be at the competition venue by 7 am tomorrow from here at and t

ah, it's lovely here. well, you wake up to catch with a little bell. there are some birch trees under the sun. it's so peaceful. it's birds tweeting a love, it is all that's missing, but it's the leg i ruin is optimistic, although she's not sure whether she'll even be able to make it through the competition in her weakens state. the social, i've still got a bit of a cold, which is a drag and bottom, so the coffee makes you tired of. but the sun is shining again and i'm ready to compete with for vic of preparations

and al complete the venue, an ice rink. let the games begin. i ruin only has eyes for the block of wood that she's preparing. ah, the warm up is likewise part of the exacting routine ad room performs before a competition that she noticed is how she's out of breath and steam quite a bit sooner than is usually the case. her body is still feeling that cold. she's carrying, it's now down to a matter of determination. mom libra, theatre. buffalo smith. i was just calling in regards 5. first up for i roon is her specialty discipline. the change. so 3211.

ah, she cooks the time of just under 12 seconds. some way off her personal best when i'm happy with no idea what the other times were, but it was okay. ah, after the 1st round and removing is in 2nd place. the next discipline is the hand, saw all single buck irons, wild record is a little over 15 seconds a time that would normally be within her reach her. oh, but it's a disastrous start as the saw jams, but after losing a couple of seconds, she really gets going and finishes just ahead of the raining german champions while pointing out an issue with the with there was a not in the trunk. i appealed,

but the referee didn't recognize it, but what can you do on a cell phone? but that little stumbling block still couldn't prevent aroon from going into the lead up. last is the underhand chop. her prowess with the axe will surely see has to cure her 1st national championship through one. 0. and gets off to an awesome start with every stroke getting this bumps. but she suddenly starts to tie, getting weaker, slower unless precise. meanwhile, her opponents. evers, the log after one mix tapes, al moon keeps on chopping with every ounce of her remaining strength, even after the time limit expires. that means disqualification

and her dreams of a 1st g men, title dashed ah me, i had no more strength than my own. no chance, they're just dead policy. at the end of the day, i routed being was unable to summon up the requisite strength abuse. i had already had problems with the axis, year or 2 until everything finally clicked. a couple of weeks ago when the said in your german shopping record, which was cool, awkward, now, with this gold, no wait and kind of polluting the event ends with a round of applause for all competitors. ah, this is something that makes life worth living. the camaraderie, and just having a good time. and that's when it's all about that side. and in the saw as

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