Month: July 2011
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Light at the end of the tunnel…
At 16:22 local time today (15:22 BST), 11 days, 4 hours and 22 minutes and 864km after the start of the race in Salzburg, Christian “Chrigel” Maurer touched down for a perfect landing on the float anchored off Monaco to mark his second successive X-Alps victory. He’d flown a superb 65km flight in difficult conditions (headwind, […]
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Normal life comes to a halt…!
Yes, I’m talking about the 864km Red Bull X-Alps paragliding and hiking race from Saltzberg to Monaco. And I challenge anyone to visit the live tracking page and not get hopelessly addicted after 10 minutes! There are two British athletes, Steve “Gnasher” Nash (GBR1) and Jon Chambers (GBR2) – they’re currently in 7th and 17th […]
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Piedrahita World Championships
So there I was watching the LiveTracking for task 2 of the World Championships in Piedrahita at lunchtime today, and very exciting it was too. I was also enjoying the running email commentary I was having with three friends, pretending to be experts from the comfort of our own armchairs. The task was difficult at […]
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My first visit to Rybury…
Last Wednesday (29th June) I took some time off work and headed to Rybury on the promise of a pretty good forecast. Sadly it (the forecast) didn’t live up to expectations, with light winds initially but 100% cloud shadow, then when the cloud cleared the wind became too strong! Still, I had a fun couple […]
Advance paragliders in the West Country 