Friday 12th August 2011

@ Delisle Sports Ground

Warm, some winds, sunny

5x 6 arrow ends @ 90m, 122cm unscored warmup

FITA90

Total 174

The day started okay, bit of time to warm up as usual, and having the 5 ends starting was helpful, while I had one miss at 90m, I still shot reasonably well I felt with a 252, solid shooting for me in terms of 90m, especially since my slower bow setup now means having to shoot with an obstructed sight pin.  My 70m round was pretty reasonable too I felt, with a 293, not as great as I had hoped with the 314 earlier in practice, but anything 290+ for me is a good range, just slowly raising the average.

I however had a bit of a meltdown at 50m.  We had no choice but to use the 5+ ring 80cm faces, and for really no good reason, I put three misses in.  I fought hard to recover from the poor shooting, but struggled through to put down a 259, considerably lower than the 298 I had in Yankton, I was fairly disappointed with it.  

To finish off the day, 30m was up, and having shot 30m comfortably for years, I felt I could finish well.  I had some points of struggle, being tired, and mentally trying to stay strong through the last distance.  I did manage to scrap in a 334, not my best, but at least kept it above 330.

Finished up with a 1138, definitely not my worse, just disappointed at the 50m result that dragged the whole result down somewhat.