On Sunday 30th May, I went down to the club to get sight marks and to prepare myself for the Welsh whit western shoot the next day. Down at the field I experienced the worst shooting conditions I have shot in at the club’s new venue. It started getting dangerous with gusts of winds across the field lifting arrows off arrow rests etc, but eventually I was able to get some rough sight marks.
On bank holiday Monday, the 31st of May, I entered as an adult in the Welsh Whit Western (shooting the adults distance 60y/50y). With all the messing around I had with my equipment last week, I felt confident that I was going to shoot well on the day. The shoot began, the conditions were perfect, I started hammering the arrows into the gold, at this point I knew that although I was shooting against adult men, it was going to be a victorious day for me.
I continued shooting very well and at the end of the day I shot my personal best score which was 806, my previous being 800. At the presentations the gentlemen recurve scores were read out, 3rd place, 770 something, 2nd 780 something, 1st place 794, they made a mess of the scores! I beat first place by 12 points! I had to go query the scores and found out I got put down for a junior! This is the second time this has happened to me at the same shoot, so I had a word with the organiser and the organiser realised that he had made a mistake. Apologies all round, and I got awarded 1st place gentleman recurve, finally.
With getting PB, and beating all the men, I came home with a smile on my face :)
01 June 2010, 14:38Posted by: