GOALLLL!!!!!! Task 7, Roldanillo FAI Open Paragliding Competition

It's Groundhog Day all over again at our final task of the Roldanillo FAI Open Paragliding Competition.  We managed to have a task every day of seven days, which is an amazing streak of weather.   For the final day we had a short task so everyone could get finished, downloaded and packed up in time for the awards ceremony that evening.   Of course short still meant about 50 km, but for the leaders that only takes a little over an hour!

Today's task was basically the Roldanillo Milk Run, we started over the hills above Roldanillo and then headed north.   Turning around a few miles beyond La Union, we then had a choice of staying in the mountains, which were really rough, or heading out to the flats.  I think almost everyone went out to the flats and there was lots of lift everywhere.

I played it safe and ventured back into the hills near Zarzal to get lift...I may have gotten up over the valley but I did see people land and I really wanted to make it into goal.  With a tailwind, I was able to zip into goal in 1:48, which might be my fastest average speed for the week.  Of course everyone else was going quickly too, so it probably wasn't enough for me to podium.  But I am very happy to have made goal 5 times in 7 tasks and I never broke airspace.    A successful competition and a lot of fun!

Results are HERE  I ended up 7th in the Sport Class, and 4th Woman.  I was only a couple hundred points behind in both, so close I could taste the podium.   To podium I would have had to have 6 tasks in goal and I only had 5...next year!

OVERALL TASK 7 SPORT CLASS

#	Id	Name		Nat	Glider	Sponsor	T 1	T 2	T 3	T 4	T 5	T 6	T 7	Total
1	101	Kuba Sto	M	POL	Ozone Delta 2	kubasto.com	870	709	453	772	781	405	372	3990
2	9	Andres Agredo Perez	M	COL	Gin Carrera	MURANOS & ACCESORIOS	508	600	317	719	643	529	613	3612
3	342	Glenn Meurrens	M	BEL	Ozone Alpina 2	Austrian Arena	664	331	419	495	669	516	675	3438
4	2741	Dustin Pachura	M	USA	Carrera		475	60	421	776	325	605	705	3307
5	153	Jeison Zeferino Brito	M	BRA	ozone DELTA 2	TermikZone / senas usinagem de precisão	644	418	255	224	667	524	707	3215
6	183	Alex Loyarte	M	ESP	gin carrera	Gin green team	674	467	395	538	326	413	701	3188
7	314	Dawn Westrum	F	USA	Ozone Delta 2	Eagle Paragliding, Ozone, Black Diamond, FFF	614	127	269	484	634	532	654	3187

OVERALL TASK 7 WOMEN

#	Id	Name		Nat	Glider	Sponsor	T 1	T 2	T 3	T 4	T 5	T 6	T 7	Total
1	708	Klaudia Bulgakow	F	POL	ENZO 2	Lukoil	855	467	401	855	879	486	453	3995
2	370	Yvonne Dathe	F	GER	Ozone M6	WinMental.de, Haglofs, Pauly Consult, planet-para.de	223	61	576	797	865	724	458	3643
3	91	Patricia Garcia De Letona	F	MEX	Niviuk IP7		630	419	425	513	633	524	738	3463
4	314	Dawn Westrum	F	USA	Ozone Delta 2	Eagle Paragliding, Ozone, Black Diamond, FFF	614	127	269	484	634	532	654	3187
5	11	Camila Antonorsi	F	COL	Gin GTO2 S		704	406	402	726	322	410	0	2970
6	99	Isabella Messenger	F	GER	Ozone Enzo 2 (xs)	tiholdings.com	867	61	660	108	154	377	772	2938
7	365	Hinestroza Annalena	F	GER	UP Trango XC2	UP International; DGFW	439	400	264	123	524	375	588	2590
8	37	Maryna Gnidan	F	UKR	Ozone Delta2		30	132	210	210	170	60	308	1090
9	110	Krista Auchenbach	F	USA	U-Turn Blacklight		134	37	166	420	139	30	172	1068
10	83	Tetiana Mershavka	F	UKR	Ozone Delta2	NearBirds	170	140	155	261	165	82	156	1047
11	200	Marion Plagge	F	NED	Nova Mentor2		189	0	189	239	38	30	232	917
12	13	Gil Bell	F	GBR	Ozone Alpina		79	74	223	216	203	87	0	882
13	79	Blanca Esther Perdomo Bravo	F	COL	GIN Carrera	ICOLTRANS	28	29	137	202	58	0	63	517

The start of Task 7

Heading out at the start with my game face on