Robin Hood I am not, but...
Sunburnt, windburnt and thoroughly exhausted, but very happy - just about sums up the weekend. Today was the day of my first archery competition, AKA the club championships. It was an all day event, so obviously we couldn't shoot our usual six dozen arrow rounds. The really good members shot a Hereford, the rest of us shot various grades of Bristol. This entails twelve dozen arrows at three different distances. A Bristol IV, the round that I shot, consisted of six dozen at 40 yards, four dozen at 30 yards and two dozen at 20 yards, with a break for lunch after the first six dozen. I have no idea what the folks shooting the Hereford had to do in addition to all this - they were out at 80 yards (then 70, then 60), as were the Bristol Is, so it must be some esoteric archery thing that I haven't stumbled upon yet.
I came out of it rather better than I'd expected - runner up ladies novice and first place in score corrected for handicap. Of course, the fact that I've had a very high handicap until now and apparently shot much better today than I thought I had helped. The downside is that today's work will have improved my handicap (made it lower) so I'm going to have to shoot much better just to maintain it. Erp.
But it was a really good fun day, lovely to see people get prizes at the end and now I have two medals to find homes for.
All of that fresh air and exercise has completely exhausted me so I'm going to have some supper and a very early night so that I can be reasonably intelligent at work tomorrow. Tomorrow I may photograph my medals for display here. Or possibly not. Hmm.
I came out of it rather better than I'd expected - runner up ladies novice and first place in score corrected for handicap. Of course, the fact that I've had a very high handicap until now and apparently shot much better today than I thought I had helped. The downside is that today's work will have improved my handicap (made it lower) so I'm going to have to shoot much better just to maintain it. Erp.
But it was a really good fun day, lovely to see people get prizes at the end and now I have two medals to find homes for.
All of that fresh air and exercise has completely exhausted me so I'm going to have some supper and a very early night so that I can be reasonably intelligent at work tomorrow. Tomorrow I may photograph my medals for display here. Or possibly not. Hmm.