IoM: Day One of Shooting
*breaths a big sigh of relief*
Had to wake up at seven today, at which point practically every joint in my body was screaming at me in pain. Oh well I thought, two hours untill the first archery contest of the day starts. Once I've taken some Ibuprofen it'll wear off like it did yesterday. Except I was wrong in my estimation of the amount of time it'd take. By the time Storm was assembled and we were ready to shoot, I couldn't even hold her, let alone draw the string back. I couldn't even mime shooting a bow, my shoulders were so painful.
Then I had the fun of struggling to stay awake (after about two hours sleep, a fire alarm, another three hours sleep and zero caffine) whilst my friends were shooting a portsmouth. (I may hav actually fallen asleep at some point, which was hard as my wheelchair isn't that cofortable. After two and a half dozen we had a break and I got some food and that made me perk up no end. My joints had loosened up by that point and my fingers were itching to do some archery, so I dropped in on the second end of the fourth dozen, shot twenty one arrows and got a score of 150, which is more than my first ever complete portsmoth score.
In the afternoon I shot my first ever Fita 18 (Thats a 40cm target at 18 metres away and 60 arrows for those non-archers.) I was affected my M.E. and stiff joints and couldn't hold at full draw at all to aim, but I got 269, which I'm told is not bad for a first score even without taking into account my health issues.
I'm not feeling too drained either. I'm really glad I didn't try and shoot the full portsmouth. Kellog was intending to bring the club compuond with her and forgot, which is a shame, bcause it'd have been a good chance to try it out without having to worry about my score. (In fact if I had've had a compound to shoot with I'd've technically won the women's compound on the grounds that I would've been the only one.) Oh well, there will be plenty of more oppertuities for me to venture into the darkside.
Had to wake up at seven today, at which point practically every joint in my body was screaming at me in pain. Oh well I thought, two hours untill the first archery contest of the day starts. Once I've taken some Ibuprofen it'll wear off like it did yesterday. Except I was wrong in my estimation of the amount of time it'd take. By the time Storm was assembled and we were ready to shoot, I couldn't even hold her, let alone draw the string back. I couldn't even mime shooting a bow, my shoulders were so painful.
Then I had the fun of struggling to stay awake (after about two hours sleep, a fire alarm, another three hours sleep and zero caffine) whilst my friends were shooting a portsmouth. (I may hav actually fallen asleep at some point, which was hard as my wheelchair isn't that cofortable. After two and a half dozen we had a break and I got some food and that made me perk up no end. My joints had loosened up by that point and my fingers were itching to do some archery, so I dropped in on the second end of the fourth dozen, shot twenty one arrows and got a score of 150, which is more than my first ever complete portsmoth score.
In the afternoon I shot my first ever Fita 18 (Thats a 40cm target at 18 metres away and 60 arrows for those non-archers.) I was affected my M.E. and stiff joints and couldn't hold at full draw at all to aim, but I got 269, which I'm told is not bad for a first score even without taking into account my health issues.
I'm not feeling too drained either. I'm really glad I didn't try and shoot the full portsmouth. Kellog was intending to bring the club compuond with her and forgot, which is a shame, bcause it'd have been a good chance to try it out without having to worry about my score. (In fact if I had've had a compound to shoot with I'd've technically won the women's compound on the grounds that I would've been the only one.) Oh well, there will be plenty of more oppertuities for me to venture into the darkside.