Sunday, 6 February 2011

Sunday 6th February 2011

@ Sydney Bowmen
Hot, sunny to start, cloud cover later turning gusty.

3x 6 arrow ends @ 60m 122cm unscored warmup
Canberra round

Total 108

Shot the invitational teams event at Sydney Bowmen today.  4 person teams shooting the round with agglomerate scores for placing.

Putting the team scores aside, I scored much better than I expected, considering that by the end of the practice and round itself I had done 924 arrows this week, a monsterous number for me.  I did struggle all day in being able to have good releases, and had immense difficulty in bringing my shoulder around and using my back.  Once the wind came up at 40m, it was real fight to put arrows down cleanly.

Score wise, I put in a solid 796, pretty much around my usual envelope (800, 799, 774, being the last few I've shot).   In terms of the breakdown of score

60m: 258 with 15 gold
50m: 261 with 17 gold
40m: 277 with 28 gold.

Looking at it from a 'gold' perspective, half my arrows in gold at 60m, around half at 50m, nearly all at 40m.
The points to be gained really do come down to my 60 and 50m distances, being always very close in score.

It was a solid day of shooting anyway.  Lets see how I manage to recover for another week ahead.

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