The sun gets up early here and I hadn't closed the shutters.
With no food in our accommodation at all we were off early in the search of sustenance.
Being a Sunday Morning, nothing was open at all - so we pegged our hopes on registration having something to eat.
Turn out that parking however, was 2km from registration.
Jeremy had a 9h49 start so timing was tight.
2km walk to registration for a cup of coffee (espresso only) and a piece of cherry pie and sponge cake. 2km walk back to the car gave Jeremy 20 minutes to get ready for his start.
This is the view from the starting area. On top of the world with upward of 10 para-gliders enjoying the weather..
This is the view from the starting area. On top of the world with upward of 10 para-gliders enjoying the weather..The race was a tough one. 40/169 competitors dnf or dsq including 80% of the Irish and British squads.
The race was 14.1km straight line, but there were very few straight line options. green was very green and white was hard work. Jeremy found it very difficult to locate in the forest and spent a long time up and down the road to 5 confirming his exact location before going into the forest.
Jeremy's course and route for the French National Long Distance Champs. Thierry Gueorgiou won by 9 mins in 1h31 putting all comers to shame.Only 1 water point on the course made it very difficult going. Jeremy walking the majority of the second part of the course with no reserves and dehydrated.
http://www.nationalesavoie2011.fr/ has the results for all classes.
It was a long day out, with another 2km walk back to the car and with most things still closed it was a small cafe that provided supper and provisions for breakfast the following morning.
According to the GPS on Jeremy's arm, he did 30.7km that day - 23km in the race and the rest warming up and getting between the car, registration, start and finish venues.
Next up.
Good value and not so good orienteering.
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