First morning of competition

When I woke up this morning, the ASOS was reporting clear but a quick look out the window was suggesting otherwise. When I went outside the hotel for a good look, it appeared that a scattered to broken layer was attempting to develop at around 500 feet. This layer continued to flare up and down throughout the next few hours, including during portions of the flight.

Had three tasks early this morning from a common launch point:a pilot declared goal, a fly on task, and an elbow. At the first task, we had to go out into a very muddy corn field to measure the 40m drop. We didn't catch back up to Al on the second drop, but found it later in a heavily forested area after Al was down. Finally, there wasn't a ton of steerage for the elbow but those that were willing to ascend rapidly at the right time seemed to do fairly well.

Went to the zoo yesterday and to a seminar on competition mistakes presented by last year's National's champion Pat Cannon.

Am planning on hitting up the Dr Pepper factory, the Texas Ranger museum and maybe the compound at some point later this week.