Totally, completely drained...but what a great day
- 'Ego' highlight was a 52 y.o. bloke who thought I was much younger than him (I'll be 60 in April)
What an absolute
joy to spend a couple of hours preaching the gospel of the bow to a succession of stary-eyed civilians!
It was quite manic for the 1st hour, I'd say we got the expected 90 attendees no prob, but it settled down a bit later. Lots of sign-ups for the beginners course next month too. I think my fave people were an older couple whose kids had flown the nest who were looking for a hobby they could do together into their old age. Bless them!
After that, a relaxed Worcester.
- Only the British could have come up with such a weird format for a round!
I shot a respectable but unspectacular
218 - Good enough for an 'E' classification (Had the scores dude been there!) (And has he never heard of email?) and a big boost to my PB - I'd only ever shot it once before, many months ago, somewhere around 160 I think, but I was fighting a couple of equipment issues throughout:
- First, the wrap-around rest kept getting further & further from the plunger with every shot, which also dropped the centre-shot making the arrows go low. After what was said elsewhere about how fragile the screws are, I'd made sure they weren't over-tightened. Erred on the side of being too loose, as it turned out. This was the new red one, I set the black one up for the A/C/E's y'day. I'll make sure that's a bit tighter too.
- Second, the 'free' end of the Shibby fibre kept coming out of its' holder & dangling straight down. An easy enough fix, I have several ideas about how to make it more secure yet still easily removable. And 5 days to do it!
An early night tonight, hoping for at least 10 hours of catch-up sleep.