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Originally Posted by y2kcmoore
The race was fun and a great learning experience for me. The forcast called for 25 to 30 mph winds. I put up a RRD 10m kite and I was way under powered and ended up making it an endurance race. I really had a great time and I know next time go with the gut instinct and not make my judgments off second hand forcast.
Sorry you couldn't make it out and we will see you next time.
-Chris
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Glad it was an interesting experience although unfortunately an underpowered one. This front resembled the one that came through with the last boardercross. You remember the forecast and what the winds did then, stayed up pretty much all day. In this case, the wind changed direction, spiked way up and eased off instead of staying up per the NWS forecast. Depending on when you started the race, checking realtime winds upweather or to the north might have indicated some softening of the wind. You can receive this stuff on quite a few cell phones these days. if you are away from a computer. The Skyway record stayed up more than others, is this an artifact with the sensor or is it just windier there?
How many riders were in the race? Who were the first group of kiters to come in?
02-27-2006, 08:58 AM
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