SRU-2-Alps blog

Day 3

Today I had no chance to fly to the west because of a strong wind so I woke up late. Another 30km of walking. Tomorrow’s weather forecast says the same. Today a gadfly bit me. My left arm is swollen and I can’t bend it. Luckily my mom gave me some ibuprofenum. I threw my merino longsleeve into trash bin. Unfortunately it was the lightest one. I have two more, because I decided to get three of those and a light windproof jacket instead of heavier hoodies. Another ‘disaster’ is that I forgot to take out my socks from stream washing machine.Do you know Zientos? He’s the guy with awesome attitude to life and flying. He’s always happy. Ten hour ride and three of hiking on the hill to miss weather and just fly down to Antholz lake? For him it’s as cool as flying a big triangle. Crazy guy. I don’t understand competitive flying. Isn’t it the way to be always unhappy? A lot of X-Alps pilots stop their journey immediately after elimination instead of continuing it. Why? It looks like everyone is looking for winning in every case, after every single take off. It’s not paragliding, it’s paramasochism I’m gonna walk tomorrow. And the weather for next days doesn’t even look promising. But I don’t care. I have fat food, water, good body condition and I can focus on making best decisions to have fun and make progress. Crying about bad flying weather won’t help so I need to enjoy walking. I’ll take it easy and I’ll walk slowly not to overtrain my body at the beginning. It’s not necessary to walk a lot every day if I can fly five times faster on a good day.Today I’m sleeping at a lake shore. One meter from water. It’s quite warm. Many vantravellers are here. I even found a bottle with a small amount of bio lemon soap