Day 8

Fine wing running from Katy G

Praise the Lord it was back to racing tasks today. Not a straightforward one though - lots of new places to visit and more ridges to work out on the 385km 4 point crochetting course. The pre-start gaggles were soemwhat intimidating today with plenty of multi-core thermalling and climbs up the side of lower cloudbase with plenty of gliders going in and out of cloud at 8500'. All very exciting.

We started at 2pm and had a patchy run South with a low save on the ridge just past the windmills that put us nicely back up to get into the first turn. The next leg was into new territory but the West facing ridges played ball and progress was made even if it was slow. The penultimate leg was into wind so had some good streets but was perilously close to airspace. I seemed to make time up on the last leg by finding a good core and then pushing onto the ridge East of Terni to pull up along that and scrape onto glide. 111kph was 4 kph slower than my Nemesis, Luca and my lead has shrunk to a mere 30 points - so it all comes down to the last day!

GA comes home 5th for the day at 133kph

Geoff looking pleased (you should see him looking miserable)

Geoff had a great run round and was 5th for the day. Ben remains top of the pile in Standard class with a 100 point advantage on Dane.