Day 5 US 15 M Nationals

We had very blue day today with very limited lift.
I had trouble to connect thermal after release and I started 10 minutes
later then most of the pilots.
I went to North West for 50km long glide to connect with the clouds .
I reached them at 1000AGL and was able to climb 6000Feet .
Then return glide without any trace of lift back to Mifflin where I
planned to connect with same thermal which I used for start,but it
didn't work and I had to use very weak lift.
I finished under time and lost 130 points but was able to keep my first
place.

Jerzy XG

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