Geoff writes: I didn’t feel particularly like flying today, though clearly it was going to be a pretty good day, good clouds, very thermic.  The obvious place to go was the Peaks – nil wind and SW here is a real pain, whereas in the Peaks, it usually means a pretty good day. But I couldn’t be bothered with the drive, a 200 mile round trip, just for one day, since tomorrow is likely to be SE, a poor direction in the Peaks – nice for flying, no good for XC because of airspace. So I decided to have a quiet day in, but Mark Leavesley then phoned saying it was a nice 15mph on the SE face at Corndon. If it had been any further, I wouldn’t have bothered, but Kai was also going, so I thought it worth the 15 minute trip out.

But it was predictably pretty poor. The wind was back to very light, and what there was, was SW rather than SE. There is a face on Corndon which sort of works in that direction, but today, in spite of the epic sky, it didn’t. Both Mark and Kai tried numerous times, but didn’t get up. In the end, I canned the day and left. Kai also left a bit later, but Mark did, eventually, get up and have a good day.

I’ve not looked at the league results yet, but I’ll be amazed if there aren’t some really good XCs from the Peaks. […and just heard from Andy Wallis, who did 130km High Wheeldon to Cleethorpes].

I’ll be out tomorrow though….

[Judith not feeling too good in France, so probably no comp update today].

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