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I think the appropriate emotion is shame.
May. 18th, 2008 09:53 pmTournament report: 2008 USIAC
STAR FITA + ORs
There has still not been a year when I improved fro mWesterns to USIACs, and considering this is the last time I'll shoot either, there won't be such a year. I couldn't get my release under control, my string was acting up, and my hands were swelling up.
Oh, and long distances were shot in anything from drizzle to pouring rain, with an inch of standing water on the shooting line. Final score was comparable to two years ago at UCLA.
I want to blame someone besides me. I suppose I could blame my borrowed limbs, since they're all chipped up. I suppose I could blame my string or my increasingly battered arrows. But none of that is fair when I was simply not shooting well, at all.
I did go to the banquet though, and was glad I did. Apparently there's now sponsorship for Academic All-American, something I earned despite a lackluster showing at national indoors. I can pick up top-of-the-line arrows and stabilizers at dealer prices, target mats for shipping only, and certain other deals. More money to spend this summer (and have to by the end, being all graduated and stuff), but I can finally take my chance to pick up x-10s.
I need to figure out a good plan for keeping up on practice while working full-time and maintaining a social life. It's very much not going to be easy, but it needs to happen, or else I'm out of the sport -- not something I want to accept. Maybe there's a coach in San Diego somewhere besides the OTC that I could work with a couple times a month?
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STAR FITA + ORs
There has still not been a year when I improved fro mWesterns to USIACs, and considering this is the last time I'll shoot either, there won't be such a year. I couldn't get my release under control, my string was acting up, and my hands were swelling up.
Oh, and long distances were shot in anything from drizzle to pouring rain, with an inch of standing water on the shooting line. Final score was comparable to two years ago at UCLA.
I want to blame someone besides me. I suppose I could blame my borrowed limbs, since they're all chipped up. I suppose I could blame my string or my increasingly battered arrows. But none of that is fair when I was simply not shooting well, at all.
I did go to the banquet though, and was glad I did. Apparently there's now sponsorship for Academic All-American, something I earned despite a lackluster showing at national indoors. I can pick up top-of-the-line arrows and stabilizers at dealer prices, target mats for shipping only, and certain other deals. More money to spend this summer (and have to by the end, being all graduated and stuff), but I can finally take my chance to pick up x-10s.
I need to figure out a good plan for keeping up on practice while working full-time and maintaining a social life. It's very much not going to be easy, but it needs to happen, or else I'm out of the sport -- not something I want to accept. Maybe there's a coach in San Diego somewhere besides the OTC that I could work with a couple times a month?
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