Back on track.

Looks like the Canadian boys redeemed themselves a little yesterday. The forecast was for a day that was worse than the previous, but looking up at the sky, things were shaping up. There was more cirrus, so we knew it would be about timing.

They pushed back the Flex wing start time 15 minutes yesterday. I think that this was so that the Flexies wouldn't embarrass the ridgids too much.

Brett won the race on the ground running his glider over to the launch line up the fastest. It was pretty funny watching him position himself while others were arguing. Chris said that he was the last glider to launch but that didn't seem to make a difference as he was at the start on time.

It was funny, just before the start, as I topped out each thermal, I kept thinking, that I am in a good position, only to look to the East and see someone either further upwind or closer to the edge of the start gate.

Yesterday, I decided that I would fly faster and "keep up" with the other guys. The previous two days, I think that I was too worried about landing, instead of flying the course, and kept falling behind. The decision worked out well for me. The previous two days, I kept forgetting that I have a glider that is probably as good or better than most of the field giving me a little more room for error. The Litespeed is climbing well, and so far, I haven't lost anything on glide.

The shade showed up at the same time and same place as the previous day... right before the turnpoint. I was experiencing deja vu. Oh by the way, the task was in the same direction as the day before, only shorter.

At the turnpoint, I thought that I had fallen behind, so I started to push even though there was shade (impatience at it's best). This worked out for me as I got into the bottom of a climb that the rest of the gaggle I was with didn't. We had a bit of a tail component coming into goal, but I still waited for the vario to tell me that it was only a 7.5:1 glide into goal.

My final glide was from 14 km out and I did it at about 100 km/h. That was when I wasn't blowing up from either PIO or the turbulence. Two guys beat me in because I couldn't keep the glider going straight. Something that I will have to work on, or God forbid raise my sprogs...

Chris and Paris had a race into goal neck and neck. It was right to the ground. I heard that Brett came in over Chris's leading edge and was planning on flying in front of him and pimp him at the line. He then had second thoughts as he wasn't sure when Chris was going to pull up, or worse yet loop over the goal line!