{"id":774,"date":"2009-08-11T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2009-08-11T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:42:21","slug":"tuesday-11th-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 11th August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Geoff writes:<\/strong> just shows you shouldn’t get too excited about a day. I thought it was going to be a really good day, as obviously did the Derbyshire Soaring Club and the Pennines Club, who both came down in force. In the event, it started off ok, with nice cumulus development on most sides of the Long Mynd<\/a>, though not above it. We all flew a bit, then most of us landed, presumably, like me, waiting for it to get a bit better, and the clouds start popping off above. They did a bit, but then the wind began a steady rise, and the sky began to blue out. Most people relaunched, though not me (the increasing wind bothered me), a few went over the back in dribs and drabs, but didn’t seem very high, and were flying into the blue, rather than to clouds. In spite of that they did some good flights – Grouse did 31km, Nigel Prior did 72. Be interesting to see how far others got.<\/p>\n

Eventually, and predictably given the type of day it turned out to be, the big lenticulars started appearing.<\/p>\n

Hang gliders flew most of the day; I hadn’t taken mine confidently expecting to be doing a long XC on the paraglider. In the end, we gave up and went home, and I was too annoyed with the day to be bothered going out again with the HG.<\/p>\n

And Judith is now recording another podcast, this time with Tom Payne, on\u00a0 his experiences in the X-Alps, following up\u00a0the podcast about his preparation\u00a0for the event. There are now around four podcasts recorded, but not yet edited, and these will be released over the next few weeks, depending on how bad the weather is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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