I finely tuned my bow this week, ready for this weekends competition, and I shot at the club on Thursday night shooting really tight groups. With this in mind, I felt more confident than ever for this weekend’s record status competition hosted by the Wirral archers at their venue on the Wirral Peninsula.
I entered for an Albion (adult) round (3 dozen at 80 yards, 3 dozen at 60 yards and 3 dozen at 50 yards). I was the only junior that was shooting the round, and I went there with intentions of setting a new national record.
It started off a sunny yet very windy morning with targets being blown over before the shoot had even started. The targets were secured more so, and the shoot began. The strong winds were blowing the arrows everywhere (not good when you are shooting long distances), but I was getting reasonable scores for the conditions, and I was happy with the way I was shooting for the furthest distance of 80 yards. When the targets were moved to 60 yards, I was shooting gold after gold, getting 31 out of 36 arrows in the gold for that distance. I was on my way to getting a good score, possibly breaking the national record.
I had a couple of low scoring arrows at the change of distance to 50 yards, putting my thoughts of getting the national record for this shoot on the back burner. I finished the tournament with a decent score, a few points short of the national record maybe, but on the positive side I won 1st place medal, best gold, and reset the county record that I set last year. J
14 July 2010, 14:32Posted by: