Monarca 2010, Day one, Day two.
Monarca is on and oversold by three spots which proves my buddy Bills theory that a Mexican can´t turn down money.
Day one was called a 66.9 km task to Divisadero, then to Santa Maria, then to Quintanilla ranch before heading to Cerro Gordo then to Valle, i was a bit slow at first but then caught the lead gaggle on the way to Santa Maria and was with the leaders there but the gaggle split and i chose to go with my group back to tres reyes and there i got stuck for 5 minutes befroe getting out then i was fairly fast getting to Quintanilla but on the way back i got stuck low at the trash dump but was able to get out ind into goal 30th for the day.
Day two was a 55.6 km task with a 1 km start exit at Diente then TP1 at Pila then TP 2 Aguila TP3 at Jovans and then TP4 at Sacamacate with goal in Valle. I was in the lead at times and with the leaders at Aguila but the gaggle split again and i chose to go with my group which went straight back to Penon and we were slow to climb out over the flats and the gaggle that went back to Espinoso got a better line and i catching up to us at launch but i was a bit low to go over top the mesa like some did and so i went to a glider climbing over tha back and as i got there he was turning right and i wanted to turn right but could´nt because a glider piloted by Tobias was on my right flying me out of the lift, i was forced to fly toward the pinitas and i could´nt connect the next thermal there i was 44.6 km 10 km short og goal. Tobias was able to get up due to a better line to the pinitas. He landed at Jovans and later apologized for pushing me out of the lift. He said he knew i would be upset about it but that did´nt seem to stop him from doing it at the time. There has been some really poor piloting skill shown here by many pilots. I´ve had several near misses the last two days and almost had a Ice peak XP flown into me from behind less than 6 inches.
Today the clouds reappeared and we hope they will stick around.
More soon,David.