Jumping Journal: July 20, 2009

Summer has arrived, at least I think so.

 

The temperatures the past couple of days have hinted that summer may finally be here but the black flies still want to say its spring.  I don't think I have ever seen black flies in the month of July until this past weekend when i was being swarmed by them.  This past week has brought some much need dry weather as well.  The forecast is suggesting that may change this week though, starting overnight tonight.

 

I arrived at Storrs Hill around 5:30PM and found Cannonball and Bill talking about the work party that took place this weekend.  We walked over to the 50 and saw the change on the inrun that has been made to make snowing the inrun a bit easier than what.

 

After a while everyone suited up and headed up the jump.  I was tired after having went to bed last night around midnight and waking up around 3:30AM and not being able to fall back asleep.  I also had a quite a busy day which didn't help matter much so I was tired and I knew it was going to be a technical night of jumping since I didn't have much left to give me any kind of power at the takeoff.

 

I walked up top and put on the skis.  I knew it was going to be slow since there was no soap laying around.  I got the signal from Cannonball and headed down the inrun.  Yes, it was slow and my jump ended up around 12 meters.  It has been a quite a long time since I only jumped 12 meters on the K25 in Lebanon.    I was definitely tired but thanks to being tired I was also too tired to crash.

 

I walked up slowly for the second jump.  This time I did get back down around 15 meters before landing so I was highly pleased.  I could tell it was all thanks to technique that I managed to make it that far.  I didn't power off the takeoff like I have had in the past many times.

 

The third jump was about the same.  The jumper right after my third jump had managed to find some soap and soaped up his skis.  It did help my fourth and final jump of the evening.  I was caught a bit off guard about how much extra speed there was on the inrun and how much further I managed to jump.  I did end up with  around 17-18 meters on the last jump so it was getting back toward more normal for me.

 

Now off to bed and hopefully make up for the lost sleep last night.

 

Crash