Results:
https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/results

Blog and live tracking and replay:
https://airtribune.com/2015-big-spring-nationals/blog__day_7

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=195761036

http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1233318

http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/7.8.2015/20:17

It was windy and blue at launch at 2 PM. Tiki pulled me up fifth and for the
first time ever I was being towed so slow that when the rope bellied I broke a
two hundred pound weak link at 500'. That pretty much screwed my day.

I got back in line but it was soon too late for the first start clock. I got
another tow but didn't find any lift. On the third tow I raced downwind to get
under Dave Proctor and we climbed out at 150 fpm as the clocked ticked down to
the second time at 3:50 PM for the start window.

After getting up the lift was strong and there were wispies along our route:

We were racing trying to catch the guys a half hour in front. Ground speeds were
in the 60's (mph) with a 17 mph south southeast wind.

We climbed higher in each thermal and jumped from wispy to wispy getting to
10,700'. It took merely an hour and forty minutes to go 125 km (plus ten for the
start cylinder). Then the lift stopped.

I stayed near or to the right of the course line given the second leg to the
north northeast and the south southeast winds.

South west of Post at over 10,000' I headed for some cu's northeast of Post.
Down to under 7,000' northwest of Post I took 240 fpm to 8,500' just to make
sure that I could make it to the cu's. I figured that they were enough east of
the course line and that I would get high enough to make it in to goal from
cloud base.

Unfortunately by the time I got to them they were dying and it was all blue out
in front in a open canyon. I continued toward the goal but it looked like I was
diving into a blue hole.

I saw some little wispies off downwind across the north south highway. I decided
that that was my best chance to get up. I went to the best looking and newly
forming cu and got nothing. I had gained no distance toward goal. I was 30 km
away.

I headed north just so that I could land up on the plateau and have an easier
retrieve. When I got to the edge of the canyon I found lift that turned into 190
fpm. I was being blown to the northwest away from goal at 17 to 19 mph.

I figured that if I could climb to 11,000' I could make it back to the goal
despite the wind. There were wispies forming further to the northwest and I
climbed to 7,500' before going to them and getting up to 9,200' but that was it.

It was a glide toward goal with a strong quartering head wind and I got within
8.3 km.

I was on the radio with Larry Bunner. I almost caught him just passed Post but
he took the earlier start gate and was able to get up and into goal before I had
to turn and take my chances with the wispies downwind. I landed a little after 7
PM.

Preliminary results: