He was followed by Mick Howard and Cory Barnwell.

https://airtribune.com/play/3935/2d

It shows me, Cory and Mick. I dropped out early along with Greg Dinauer. Cory
made it well past Williston on his U2- 145. Mick's track log doesn't show him
past the turnpoint at Dunellon, but we saw him heading for Gainesville (not a
good idea) earlier on Live360. Larry didn't check in to the Wilotree Park Cross
Country, but it looks like he could have made it to the new goal at the small
private airfield south of Lake City, 186 km.

The day started with a strong east wind. Leesburg airfield to our north recorded
southeast 14 mph gusting to 24 mph at 11 AM, and 15 mph east at 10 AM. We wanted
to wait until the wind turned southeast as forecasted and calmed down to less
than 10 mph.

The sky at noon was full of cu's, too full. The earth wasn't getting much
heating from the 90% cloud cover. We waited until a little after 1 PM as the sky
gradually cleared a bit and the winds become more south east and calmed down a
bit. I launched first at 1:20 followed by Larry, Mick, and Greg.

The lift was very weak at first and I lost 500' down to 1,900'. Then I drifted
to the north, down wind, and found 250+ fpm on average to 4,100' Larry joined in
with me.

There were plenty of cu's, but not particularly thick or black bottomed, so we
headed northwest. More weak lift and then we found 300 fpm northwest of the
chicken coops back to over 4,000'.

Again we found weak lift and I left it at 3,500' heading toward the prisons.
There were plenty of cu's ahead so it seemed safe, but it wasn't I maintained at
1,400' but that lasted not much more than 5 minutes before I lost the zero sink
and landed. Larry had gone further west toward Center Hill and found enough to
stay up and then get up. Mick was catching up. Greg soon went down just a few
kilometers to the north west of me south of the prisons.

We'll know tomorrow just how well Larry did and whether Mick was able to get to
the west and not land in Payne's Prairie south of Gainesville.