2 more days of flying and sooooo.... much wind ....

It seems like were always pushing the winds around OZ and the last week is no different . This next few days are waiting and watching... launch at dawn and its strong I have decided to head straight east towards Lake grace , easy roads to keep and eye on me now we don't have radio contact . It's strong and bumpy as usual about 30 km /hr i'm flying and geting tossed around but making some distance slowly , I want to tell the guys to find me a road south but they are either in front of me or behind me can't even use hand signals ... I finally find a south road as its starting to rain and ahead is worse , turning south the the guys see me and follow , thinking I could make better Km's I find the winds have also switched to westerly and no foward speed in fact I'm moving backwards.... oh shit ! I make abit of km and then bin it ... its over for the day . We head into Lake Grace for coffee and breakfast . No more flying for the day , we look at prdict winds again . The next 2-3 days show strong winds in our area and it seems the only time to fly are between 1am-6am. We camp in a secluded area where I landed. We wait having supper and retire early we have only 1 more day as Mark called the media and we have to be in Perth at 10 am tomorrow ..We know I have flown the distance but we want some padding ... April 4th ... wind is better , not radio again and seems like a better day to do km quickly flying east ! Launch fly fast towards Lake Grace I can feel the wind picking up as I fly over town and head up into the small hills. Wind is quartering from the left or north and as i head up the hills the wind is getting compressed and accelerating , ground speed is 65 -73km/hr and bumpy . Passing farms and wheat flields and ponds, I'm thinking this could be a good day to get 100km + km but I have to hurry so on with the bar... I am just passing the 50 km mark looking ahead down the hill thinking its going to get smoother and lighter on the downwind side . Just as i'm looking foward to the next 50 the motor sputters i'm 50 ft above the ground moving at 73 km hr , it coughs and cuts..... nooooooo.... a solid line of trees ahead going up the the farm on my left , quicly grab the toggles turn into the wind and touch down within 10 sec with basically no forward speed ... its over..! the guys see me and drive up wind is strong .. they ask me whats wrong this time and I just shrug my shoulders and say "who knows" !!!! But I know that is it ! Wind is increasing , no more spare parts or motors and we have run out of time . We congratulate each other try to start the motor with starter hand proping and don't get it to even fire. We fought to the end ! We load up the truck and head back to Lake Grace fro breakfast again ! Its over , I'm bushed and releived I dont have to fly anymore in crappy air , I'm safe and i have flown the world record in less than 2 months , less than 1/2 the time it took ben Jorden to fly his 8008km's a few years ago across Canada setting the previous record. On down loading the instruments we find the total is 8215 km, breaking the record by 208 kms. We could fly more km in the following days that would involve cancelling the Media set up , fixing the motor again and waiting for a lighter wind which would be another 2 days . Were satisfied and we head to Steve G for a B b que and some braggingand story telling ... Thanks Galvo for having us and getting us drunk ... cheers