Athlete • Speaker • Guide 
Athlete • Speaker • Guide Date: 31st May 2006
A good task, a good day! Len won, something like 45 people in goal, fantastic! Good to see so many friends again, it’s a gathering of the winged tribe for sure.
I had a very mixed day–somehow mis-timed the start and was a bit low when it happened, but high enough. The strange thing was my GPS didn’t flip at the first turn point, and I didn’t check it until I was about 3K past the point–I knew I’d flown right over it from the comp last year, but the GPS didn’t switch, so… I flew back, got it for sure, then continued on the course but 15 minutes behind the leaders. Comp experiences like that are mind-taxing, it’s easy to let the negativity of making a stupid mistake ruin the day. I was pretty much last on the course after my additional turnpoint, but managed to rally enough to make it into goal about 20 minutes behind the leaders. The whole time I figured I was in dead last, so I just relaxed and enjoyed the good flying, and it was worlds better to at least fly the course rather than blown up mentally. As happens so often, I ended up doing OK but forgetting the comp attitude and just flapping. I think it’s important to compete a lot to be in practice, I haven’t competed in a year and my systems were not tight. We loaded up my flight last night and I did indeed fly directly through the first turnpoint, but for some reason my GPS didn’t flip. I should have been paying more attention.
Keith, Rob and Grahame all made goal, Nicole missed it by being a bit late and geting shaded out. Still a very good showing for team Canada.
OK, we’re heading up the hill right now although the sky looks like grey.
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