Worlds Task 10:

Day of ups and downs, had to top land with a harness problem with only 25mins to the start, lucky cloud base was not much higher than the hill. Thanks to dave for the help taking my whole kit apart and rebuilding it on launch, made the start on time. Good for the first 15km, then i had a cravatte which needed sorting outside the best thermal of the day, by the time I had it organised it was pointless going back to the climb, so i bombed down the course low across the first big valley crossing. Got a reasonable climb on the other side and angled straight at the turn point in the flats while the lead gaggle stuck to the ridge. Picked up a reasonably crappy climb and could see that the course line was starting to shade out. Pushed in front chasing the sun line and marking some thermals for the group, and arrived at the sun over a factory complex which provided a broken climb while about 100 pilots bit the dust. It took us about 30mins to climb to about 500m agl, and another 15mins to get to 1000m. By this time there was about 30 pilots left in the air. The last 20km was characterised by slow broken climbs and poor glides, but the gaggle stuck to it and after a last ditch ridge soar 6km from home, popped over the hill and cruised in. 5th for the day gets me into 10th overall. Unfortunately the Brazilians and Koreans both got two pilots into goal and skipped us in the teams, however we did a big catchup on the Swiss. Really close between 3rd and 6th with all to play for tomorrow. Kari consolidated 2nd place in the womens. So a mixed bag today.