Paragliding in BC

Paragliding in BC

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Ozone Chabre Open - Day Three (no task)

It's raining again. I feel like a real comp pilot now - it seems every time there's a flying competition anywhere in the world it rains, gets blown-out or some crazy rare weather phenomenon rears it's head.

So there's a bit of gloom around our place today. I'm bummed for 2 reasons...one is that I was really looking forward to flying again today and improving on what I did yesterday - you always seem to do better if you can fly a few days in a row and build on what you learned. Secondly, I found out I only flew about 9 km and not the 12km it looked like at download yesterday. Not a big deal but enough to add salt to the wound of another rain day. Sigh.

But we get free pizza & paella tonight courtesy of the competition and we are in the land of cheap yet delicious wine, so things can only get better. And Team Canaf's standing will definitely improve this week as we all sat in on Jockey's talk on thermalling this morning after the soggy weather briefing. Hooray, there's a ray of optimism making it's way through the grey skies of Laragne!

1 comment:

Veronica said...

Awww, cheer up Ozone sister! The rain will eventually go away and you'll be able to fly again.

If it helps, nobody's flying out here either. Or if they are, they're hitting trees, kind of like where you are too, ha ha!

Anyway, I wish you sunny skies, and making goal each day for the remainder of the comp. You can do it!