An easy day to screw up :) Race conditions prevailed today, staying up was easy. Getting to goal quickly was the trick. Teammate Len did well there, taking the last start gate and almost catching us all up.
The day looked good straight out of the briefing. Here are our lovely hosts Vicki and Greg on the cart train.
Getting ready, in 30mins we will be 7000ft up under the clouds.
And here we are, getting ready for the 2pm 10km start gate.
I had a good start crossing 8 seconds after the clock, at cloud base. It doesn't get much better than that. I was flying with Blay and Atilla.
It wasn't long before they left me. I made a few decisions today that slowed me down. Fast days are not my strength. Here is team mate Guy coming into land. The winds were light(ish) and variable. There were some interesting "arrivals" at goal today.
Another cancelled flight.
Still it was not so bad - I got to "stand-by" the ocean too.
This view became quite familiar.
A bonus was getting to swim with Bill n the morning before heading toward the airport.
Eventually I got back SFO almost in time to meet my sister, who is visiting for a week. Without a phone is was tricky to meet up. She had assumed I had not made the flight, and did not have a phone. I got an email time stamped 6:30am even though she sent it 10:30am from the airport. We were there at the same time but didn't know. I had made some contingency plans, Jessica had decided to just head into SF. I thought to myself if I were Jessica what would I do, (I would head to a hostel for a shower and a kip). So Ryan helped me retrieve my car and I headed to Fort Mason hostel, and found she had checked in there. Meantime she had slept, woke and gone out to make some phone calls. Anyway eventually we found each other. After 38 hours of being awak I slept for 14hours.
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