Sunday 26th June 2011 - State Short Course Championships

@ SOPA

Bright, Cold morning with constant wind for the early morning, sunny and turning warm todays midday

State Short Course Championships

4x 6 arrow ends @ 60m, 122cm unscored

FITA900

Total 114

Shot the competition, the cold weather in the morning was quite challenging for me as I couldn't feel my fingers even with 4 ends of warmup.  I was told by someone it was about 8 degrees without the windchill, definitely not great for shooting.  I felt like it was a bit of a struggle all day long, but I did seem to pick up somewhat with warmer weather as my release cleaned up since my arrows starting climbing up in height (I had to adjust initially as my arrows were grouping low for 60m and half of 50m).  

The ending result was that I finished with a 778, 20 points down from my Friday practice score, which placed me 5th, though 3rd was a 781, and 4th place was a 780.  So, the gapspace was only 3 points between the 3.4 and 5.  I did shoot some 5s and 6s sadly in the event as I had some I punched through due to not functioning properly, which cost me surely.  That said, at least I didn't manage to run out of time.  One of the guys shooting on the target next to me sadly wasn't able to get through the end and only shot 5 out of the 6....

I asked to get the electronic scorecard for the event, and from looking at it, it was indeed a pretty interesting result.  I only shot 4 blues.  Had they been 7's, I would have come 3rd.  Oh well.

Session: 1 ( FITA 122cm at 60 metres )

1  = 51  51 2  = 48  99 3  = 52  151 4  = 45  196 5  = 53  249

Session: 2 ( FITA 122cm at 50 metres )

1  = 50  50 2  = 53  103 3  = 50  153 4  = 53  206 5  = 54  260

Session: 3 ( FITA 122cm at 40 metres )

1  = 56  56 2  = 55  111 3  = 52  163 4  = 50  213 5  = 56  269