Today we had a much longer distance task - 501 km..

Luke and I had a discussion last night about the mistakes we made on the previous day and what to do to fix them.

The weather was really strong right from the tow, by the time when our start opened  the cloud base was close to 9000ft with the thermals 5-6knots so we decided to go right away.. We were first to start and all 15 m class pilots were chasing us.  Surprisingly for 450 km we didn't see any other gliders except 2 German pilots who started just 2 min behind us, they caught up only by the first turn point witch was 200 km from the start.  Weather was really strong with the cloud base reaching 10,500  and we didn't have any slow and week areas as we had day before .

For another 250 km we were playing cat mouse game with German pilots. They pulled away and fell behind few times but we met again just before the second last point - 70 km away from home... We thought they will be our only company for the final glide - but when we were climbing after the turn point another 6 or 7 gliders join us - the big gaggle finally arrived.. We all finished within few minutes from each other .

Few more lessons learned and we hope for better results for the real contest which start on Monday .

15 m class pilots - MS and 2W