Tuesday 20.7.04
    'It seems to me I grow fat because of this fare,' Radek Vyhlas slightly worries about his athletic body in Penzion Kukacka after breakfast and meteorologists are reporting a strong wind for today at the same time. And a storm, heavy rain and a hailstorm as well. But everybody knows they told lies people yesterday and that's why the final decision is to go by a cableway up to Medvedin hill.

    'Uaaaaa!!!' Michal Sneiberg roars like a madman while swinging on 17 meters high pendulum as well as the others who decided to test this attraction near a cableway shortly before going up the hill. It's free for paragliding pilots although ordinary people have to pay three hundred crowns. They want me to roar there too but I feel a pain in my shoulders suddenly and I'm in a hurry to catch the departure of the cableway instead of that fright.

    Against premisions the wind isn't strong at the taking off area and clouds above a hill look very hopefully. Today's task spans three turning points - Lysa hora, Kozi hrbety and Strazne. The goal is placed near down cableway stop and the whole task is 31 kilometers long. A task window will be open from 1.15 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. Finally the fourth turning point Cerny Dul is optimistically inserted into the task and so the track is extended to 40 kilometers totally.

    Hanka Matyaskova and Renata Kuhnova are taking off as the first twenty minutes after task window opening. Probably they are both warmed up from the morning swing sufficiently. Thermal lifts are strong enough, not even leaders are waiting and Frantisek Pavlousek begins his air-fight by an excellent forward roll.

    Unfortunately, the wind gradually becomes stronger and stronger and that's why the director Ota Cerny has to close a task window for twenty minutes at 2.35 p.m. At the same time Jakub Strycek tries to land back to the taking off area, unfortunately in this strong wind he lands into a low dwarf pine behind the taking off point. Similarly Jan Kandl falls into a pine-wood east of taking off zone several minutes later and the rest of young and hopefull beginners rather don't take off at all today.

    It seems to be unreal to reach the fourth turning point Dolni Dvur in this strong wind and two competitors only reached the third turning point. Frantisek Pavlouse landed 700 meters behind the third turning point roughly and he was a winner of today's task. Fortunately Roman Skokan wasn't disturb of his repeated taking off at all and he landed about two hundred meters back. Martina Pospisilova was placed within to the third position of today's ranking. She wanted three kilometers to reach the third turning point.

    What they were afraid of yesterday, became the truth today. Frantisek Pavlousek succeded in cramming not only into the first five competitors but even into the first trio in total ranking of the competition after today's discipline. David Ohlidal and Jan Kupka safely keep their first two positions for the present.

    The first thunder is heart at 8 p.m. punctually and the meteorologists seemed to be telling no lies this time. Following series of thunderstorm and heavy rain confirmed it sufficiently and they say that very similar weather is going on tomorrow too. We'll see ...