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ah, i room 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 gem and wood chopping championships get under way time for a final practice. i've picked up some word and i'm ready to go. mm. i'm moving 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 it was really difficult at 1st to get any word any at all. the other people will say do training with, well, what for? yes. so i started just chopping firewood in order to build up strength. yep. i'm sorry, but owning it might take a week was impossible to bowl about taking the train and couldn't because his mom for the past 2 weeks i room has been battling a step in 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. ah,

yamaha 2 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 over to me. god. but my record for women is still since i quarter, which is really cool with play on will kind of connect on through to recruit. ah roon, who being lives in the village of mush time in west, in germany. her passion for a classic men sport has raised more than a few eyebrows here. breaking as it does with traditional norms and notions as a thought here it is still a bit tricky here on the generals. 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 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 our room. 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 from i got this one. usually 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, sewing by hand is serious grind work. i ruin only goes into competitive wood shopping 5 years ago. and she's now pushing 50. ah, the thought 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 when i was 21 to so i like

having an athletic and soften body. i always did leave the food couldn't do in my mind, i wounds. cat ha indulges in his own kind of timber grinding, but can't wait for our room to be down for them out of the wood. shavings are always cool for the cat when, when they've been drying out in the sun for a while. he loves rolling around in them shoes when he hops into my bed later on and they can get good about it. she cried her hand. finally, there's the axe disappearing where i rule only holds the german record. it's repeatedly being her weakest events as a minute. my ticket is still up as well 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 biskin picnic long some of a lot of swing them with a big thwack, i suspect works for me,

you see others who are a lot faster. bam, bam, incredible, pace rentals. what crucial for me is making clean strokes by me. otherwise it doesn't even bother my guns. it was other for the food a woman with a passion for wielding and acts and the chain. so she does still get funny, looks and sneeze to her. continuing astonishment. i grow learning that if you're good at something, you should do it one to leave this guy in that some sort. then you should do that, coca cola and cook them. he should have them all to. and if she's handy with a chainsaw, then he'd have done every one dust with her best that and we all been alive must have one. ah, the big event is now just one day away. i'm moving past some fresh provisions from her own garden and greenhouse head if there is a 400 column to drive to the hot mountains. ah,

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 is manuel too. oh alyssa, by i have everything here. a comfortable bed and i can make my own coffee from. i called it was a luxury, is good with some clue. i always get this intense feeling so it's not as if i'm like this, but it is exciting because i've competed in so many meats over the years, but the boss is still there. mm hm. 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 who not often can have to be at the competition

venue. is evan, a amber was from here to to the company. ah ah it's lovely here. well, you wake up to catch with a little bell. there are some birch trees and there's the sun. it's so peaceful. it behooves burns tweeting. i love it. all that's missing is the leg i ruin is optimistic, although she's not sure whether she'll even be able to make it through the competition in how we can state the social. i've still got a bit of a cold, which is a drag and do so. the coffee makes you tired. oh, but the sun is shining again and i am ready to compete with vivica.

ah preparations and al complete the venue, an ice rink. let the games begin. our route only has eyes for the block of wood that she's preparing the warm up is likewise part of the exacting routine. a 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 now down to a matter of determination. model libra. as soon as possible, smith, i was just calling in regards 5 of 1st up for i roon is her specialty

discipline the chain. so very true. what she cooks the time of just under 12 seconds. some way off her personal best. when i'm having no idea what the other times were, but it was okay. ah, after the 1st round, i'll renew being in 2nd place. the next discipline is the hands saw or 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 gems. but after losing a couple of seconds, she really gets going and finishes just ahead of the raining german champion while

pointing out some issue with the with the there was a not in the trunk. i appealed, but the referee didn't recognize it. but what can you do on her 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 secured her 1st national champion, short term ward. oh, i ruined gets off to an awesome start with every stroke getting this bumps but she suddenly starts to tie up, getting weaker, slower unless precise. meanwhile, her opponent evers, the log after one minute, tapes seconds. i. unwin 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 german title dashed only i had no more strength than my arms, no chance. they're just dead policy. at the end of the day, i roon urban, was unable to summon up the requisite strength. abuser 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 cold, no waiting country. absolutely. the event ends with a round of applause for all competitors. ah, this is something that makes life worth living. the camaraderie, just having

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