Thursday 10th February 2011

Todays run time

200m: 37s

1.4km 6m 59s

@ SOPA

Cloudy for most part, some rain, no wind, turned brighter and warmer.

3x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm, unscored

2x 36 arrow rounds @ 90m, 122cm, scored

3x 6 arrow ends @ 70m, 122cm unscored

2x 36 arrow rounds @ 70m, 122cm scored.

Total 180.

After my two scored 90m rounds, Ricci came along and gave me a little coaching on changing my elbow position to help with faster better expansion, and also how I could strengthen my bow arm with weights.  I tried to use the change in the 70m rounds, which, I think worked when I managed to do it, so once again it's back to habit breaking to change to new technique.  It isn't actually different to what I've been telling people, but rather I've never really had anyone who was able to provide me the feedback I needed to make it work for me.

For the 90m rounds, I scored a 228 and a 257, while with the 70m rounds, I scored a 296 and 298 for a practice QRE score of 594, which, while isn't a new PB, is consistent in itself and high scoring, so I was pretty happy with that.

I still need to improve my 90m but that will come in due course.