Condor Racing
Today's task was a rerun of Friday's excusion - mainly ridge-running task round the lakes in Switzerland, Meiringen - Gruyeres - Bern - Meirengen 172kms, David Clements Geoff Lawrence, Jill and Pete Harmer and Stewart Henshall took part with everyone hoping to do it better than Friday.
On the ridges initially (David Clements)
Stewart gave a briefing on where we had got it wrong last week and where we could hopefully improve...
David dumping water at the finish
The idea was to take more height on the initial ridges in the hope that we could stay higher for the sometimes fickle thermals on the flatland and a little re-routing was also explored.
Harmers get back eventually
The concept worked well on the ridges, with David completing at over 100kph, Geoff followed in behind, but Pete and Jill got stuck on the same low-level hillock at Bern Turnpoint 2. With Stewart they patiently waited for the thermal to appear and all scurried home. - Come and join us, next race Wednesday 14:00. -J&P
