James Stinnett writes:

I launched fairly early from the awesome new TTT Burnside
paraglider launch around 11:30 local time and almost sank out right away in a
flush cycle.  However, I managed to find a climb and dribble along to the south
on various mediocre thermals hoping for clouds.  The great cloud street was just
too far to the east on the heavily treed plateau for my liking so I continued on
right over the edge of the ridge and crossed the deep river canyon at the
safest, spot.

Not too much drama other than one particularly fortunate low save at around the
30 mile mark.  And once I got up here I was better able to move east and line up
on the clouds and fields since this area of the plateau has a lot of treed
stretches on the western side.

Things were going along slow but climbs were within reasonable glides. When I
was around the 50 mile mark I saw a white leading edge of a hang glider coming
towards me.  It was Cory and he was about 3 nice clouds back.  It had really
turned on behind me and he caught me around what I remember was the 60 mile
mark.

We flew together for several miles and then he glided off.  I was able to keep
him in sight for all but one 20 minute period when he pushed west.  As I was
decently high and gliding towards what was to be my last attempt at a climb in
the dying day, I saw Cory lower and behind me turning in something.  He was out
of reach and not worth going for.  My climb was not to be either and so I glided
across the western side of Boaz for a nice landing.

The final result was a new Tennessee PG record of 92.5 miles (148.86 km) on an
Ozone Swift 4 beating Steve Larsen's previous record of 74.1 miles (119.2km). 
XContest has the measurement further but wrong as they don't appear to use true
point to point measurements which I calculated using Google Earth. 

I was in the air for 5 hours 45 minutes of pretty sweet air. Slow but fun. Cory
came away with a kingpost record of 89.5 miles. He beat Steve Lee's really old
kingpost record by 1 mile. Nice job Cory.