{"id":3424,"date":"2010-08-15T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2010-08-16T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T07:59:46","slug":"sunday-15th-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 15th August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geoff writes:<\/strong> A good forecast for today, but the weather turned out much worse than the forecast. How many times have I had to write that recently!<\/p>\n

Forecast was NE, a nice breeze, cloudy early, but then rapidly getting very sunny, with reasonable thermal strengths. So, along with a lot of others, including the BCC, we went off to Corndon<\/a>. It was cloudy, but we expected the sun to break through any minute. The BCC set a short task, only 25km, but that was partly because they wanted an early finish to do the prizegiving, and minimise the long retrieves. Kai set a goal to Tenby. I\u00a0did the site briefing, stressing what a good XC site Corndon<\/a> was.<\/p>\n

And then we basically sat there for the next 4 or 5 hours, in almost no wind, and very little sun, chatting to people in the comp. Thermals coming through were rare, and very very weak. A few people had a go at different times, and the ones who did really well managed to scrape back on top. The others had to walk back up. Kai didn’t quite make Tenby – he went on a glide in front, and landed on the ridge next to the hang gliding bottom landing.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Ali managed to scrape a thermal, and must have got a massive 400′ ATO, and glided off, to land at Church Stoke – less than the activating distance of 5km.<\/p>\n

People gave up then, and started to fly down. A few people right at the end, including Judith and DaveT, managed a bit of ridge soaring, even occasionally getting slightly above launch, but that was it.<\/p>\n

Of course, as we drove away, the cloud did finally clear and the sun came out, and the wind picked up\u00a0– but far too late!<\/p>\n

Amazingly, the BP Cup in Snowdonia did managed a respectable task of around 40km, I think, with\u00a0a race from Berfydd to Criccieth, and a number of people making goal. So they have managed two tasks in two days, a lot better than the BCC here.<\/p>\n

See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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