{"id":87,"date":"2008-06-10T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-11-12T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:30:01","slug":"monday-9th-june-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 9th June – France"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PilotsThe weather forecast was ok for the morning, but it was due to storm at lunchtime. Ruth and I got up early to get a good place in the minibus queue. We were up on launch early and got ourselves organised. I have learnt loads about programming my GPS, and am just about mastering the comp routes. From the development to the east we knew there would not be a big window to fly the task and we were briefed on the level system. Level 1: good conditions; level 2: caution; level 3: task is stopped. The task was a 29km elapsed time around 3 turnpoints. We had to fly west along the ridge to the first turn point at 4km, the fly to Orpierre, then to St Genie (the volcano), then home to the campsite landing.<\/p>\n

I launched reasonably early but struggled to get a good climb. Eventually I got a thermal over launch as another pilot got a core close to me. Everyone else chose his core, which suited me fine. All those who chose him didn’t get up and when I got to the top of my climb I flew across to him and we climbed up to near base together. I was singing nah-nah-nah-nah-nah to those who chose him. Ha! I set of on the the glide to the first turn point but decided to fly very conservatively. There were people struggeling on the ridge and I didn’t want to be one of them, so I topped up in thermals on the way. Gillian was with me on the glide along, but left me for dust on her Sigma 6. I bagged the second turn point high and glided towards Orpierre. I topped up in the valley and could see the development over Orpierre getting big. A couple of pilots were getting high ahead of me and I could see that I would be able to take a good glide to the turnpoint and beyond. I would be in lift all the way and be at cloudbase as I left the area on the glide to the next turnpoint. Unfortunately, the task was cancelled as I hit the second turnpoint, so I didn’t get a chance to try out my strategic gliding.<\/p>\n

I landed with a bunch of others, but came in a little hard (didn’t flare strongly enough in nil wind) and jarred my right knee. Not something you want to do five weeks after surgery.<\/p>\n

The winning distance (at the time the task was stopped) was just 17.2k. I did 8.2k and came 44, out of 110. In the sport class, I am 25th. The BE team is 7th, out of 33, which is pretty good.<\/p>\n

Gillian did really well, as did Ruth. Third woman and 25th overall.<\/p>\n

In the evening we were invited to dinner by the southern lads (thanks Neil, Simon and Claire), but I choked on a piece of meat. Thankfully Ruth knew what to do. I couldn’t breath any more and was getting very distressed and she dashed over and did the Heimlich maneuver which disloged the obstruction. I don\u2019t know what would have happened if she hadn\u2019t been so cool in a crisis. She\u2019s a real hero and all round great guy!<\/p>\n

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

The weather forecast was ok for the morning, but it was due to storm at lunchtime. Ruth and I got up early to get a good place in the minibus queue. We were up on launch early and got ourselves organised. I have learnt loads about programming my GPS, and am just about mastering the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}