Well the US Nationals are off to a good start with a 56k race today with about a dozen pilots in goal. Conditions were difficult with lots of wind and turbulence.
My day was challenging as I wasn't rested and lost focus once again at the end of the race, landing short of goal by 1.5k. This is a challange that I've been working on for awhile now - that being my focus and concentration in the last part of the race. In talking with other top pilots this evening, I did have a bit of a revelation when I discovered that they each had something to eat about every hour or so of flight. This is something which I've never considered and I'm now seriously wondering if low blood sugar may have something to do with my lack of concentration and poor decision making at or near the end of the race.
I'm going to try and get more than a couple of hours of sleep now and hopefully will have more energy to post tomorrow. The weather is looking good and tomorrow's forecast is for much lighter winds and climbs to 16 thousand feet. Time for the hand warmers!! Probably should have brought the O2 but oh well....
Pics are of a large valley crossing with a row of giant wind turbines and looking out on final glide to goal which I didn't quite make.....
results are here:
http://flyxc.org/Inspo.html
No comments:
Post a Comment