Last day tactic, ah, there should be a book about this. So often the leader makes a mess of things and lose the comp on the last day, and i should know. Eric, the French team coach, famously lost a world championship at his home club on the last day after narrowly missing the start line. So there is really everything to play for.
After launch, there are a few showers around, but it doesn't look to bad and we decide to start late, hoping for cloudbase to go up. Cloudbase at the start zone is really interesting with big variations of more than 1000 feet and large steps in the clouds.
Now on plan B, the showers starting to look more threatening. This is not good as it limits our starting options. We decide on plan D, immediate start. The ones to watch out for are BC in the lead and EA behind in 3rd place.
First leg, early starters are climbing well on the right but we are romping under the street without stopping. BC joins me on the right and EA on the left, this is good, i've made 5 minutes on the leader. The first (of many..) TP is in the shower, still not turning i am having to fly with my brakes open for couple of minutes as cloudbase at the turn is 1000 lower than on the sunny side.
The line of showers is running broadly north-south and our task crosses that line 4 times...left-right, left-right...
We get soaked. Drenched completely. But yet we fly on, dodging in and out of the showers, hopping from field to field.
Eventually, the third TP is in total, post-shower dead air, it's inevitable glide into a field trying to make as much distance as possible.
Good field by lake (where else?), near a town call Tuna. Ten gliders in the field and we name it "Tuna International".
In the field is Agnete (BC) and Amilie (EA) so that's 1-2-3 in the same field. We know the score will not change and congratulations and commiserations go round.
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