Final glide

OK....sorta "tongue in cheek".....for fun.....a couple of YOUR recent contests had winning task speeds BELOW what I could do (stall speed) in 002 at my weight.....yes....being a PITA.....
Yes, ideal is minimum speed (task average speed) at legal finish height....some peeps have lost a first in a worlds due to 2 many circles across more than a week....

I remember a regionals at Dansville where I got stuck for over an hour.
Spratt man called my finish from the hanger while drinking beer with the rest of the fleet.
Back then, first landout points was based on last finisher.....I think I was maybe 18mph....in a -20?.

LOL truth Charlie, we are surely not speed demons. But I'll tell ya we have had a few guys, namely Ron Schwarttz, Mark Keene and Daniel Sazhin who have won days at speeds in the high 50mph range. Thats doing something in a 1-26! lol.

This last weekend while racing in a local xc series down here, I had, I think it was, a ventus 2 come blasting past me on final glide. He called to me to look to my right and I saw him blast past me at least 70 mph faster than I was going lol.

I got the last laugh on the glass boys in my division however, by winning the day with my handicap lol.