demig
New member
Well I braved the snow tonight to go and shoot. After a hard day shifting literally tones of snow and lots of sledging I expected to be terrible. Only a few of the usual suspects had got to the club so it was a quiet and pleasant evening.
Shooting on a Portsmouth started well despite me not concentrating greatly. After a couple of ends I decided to concentrate a little more as I felt like a PB was on the cards, not a good increase as I shot the first couple without too much concentration but nevertheless a PB was in the offing.
Shooting continued well but not many were hitting ten, lot's of nines and a few too many eights but still looking good when disaster struck.
I drew back, the click fell, the arrow flew.... straight past the edge of the boss and into the net I have no idea why, it felt good and the arrow was fine but still a potential ten thrown away.
At that point I shot a couple of bad ends, more eights than anything as the miss had got to me. On to the last end, a quick add up of the score and I realised that despite the miss I could still beat 517. I should not have added it up! An 8, a 7 and then the last arrow in the blue!
End result 515, 2 below PB and left knowing that I should have shot 222-225
A nice evening shooting but very frustrating, still at least I know that the 517 pb is on borrowed time. Club comp next week is a Worcester so in a fortnight the PB goes
Shooting on a Portsmouth started well despite me not concentrating greatly. After a couple of ends I decided to concentrate a little more as I felt like a PB was on the cards, not a good increase as I shot the first couple without too much concentration but nevertheless a PB was in the offing.
Shooting continued well but not many were hitting ten, lot's of nines and a few too many eights but still looking good when disaster struck.
I drew back, the click fell, the arrow flew.... straight past the edge of the boss and into the net I have no idea why, it felt good and the arrow was fine but still a potential ten thrown away.
At that point I shot a couple of bad ends, more eights than anything as the miss had got to me. On to the last end, a quick add up of the score and I realised that despite the miss I could still beat 517. I should not have added it up! An 8, a 7 and then the last arrow in the blue!
End result 515, 2 below PB and left knowing that I should have shot 222-225
A nice evening shooting but very frustrating, still at least I know that the 517 pb is on borrowed time. Club comp next week is a Worcester so in a fortnight the PB goes