Saturday 12th February 2011

@ Inman Park, Waringah Archers

Overcast, periods of light to medium rain, windy in gusts from behind with slight fishtail but not crosswinds...

3x 6 arrow ends @ 60m, 122cm, practice no scoring

FITA 900 round

5x 3 arrow ends @ 40m, 122cm, elimination matchplay novelty event

Total 123

I was trying to use the higher elbow and expansion, but it was pretty challenging today as I didn't get enough sleep as I had liked to.  The weather conditions weren't the best either and so for what I did manage to shoot I was pretty happy.  I put down a 263, 267, and 276 for a total of 806, a new personal best for the FITA900/Canberra round.  My sight settings were decent enough though the winds were causing quite a bit of vertical variation, though my releases and shoulder alignment were fairly controlled today.  Only had one bad shot into the blue, the rest were red or better.  I nearly had a perfect end at 50m, with 5 10's but my I clipped my shirt and it ended up in the 7 for a 57, which for me was a bit sad since I haven't clipped my shirt in years, since I don't wear a guest guard, so it annoyed me a little.

Afterwards while they were compiling the scores to find placings and so on, they ran an elimination matchplay at 40m (122cm face, 3 arrow ends, 1min timer).  I made it through 3 rounds into the finals, where I lost 27 (10,9,8) to 26 (9,9, 8), to come in second.  Unfortunately only first place got a medal for it.  Speaking of medals, my 806 was good enough to take first place in Open Mens Recurve. :)

No running today, it's raining -_-;

Metro Champs next week, need to get cracking on some 90m scores to boost up my FITA90.