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Tournament Report: National Indoors
Two-day indoor FITA: 120 arrows, 18 meters
Coming into this tournament, it felt like a milestone for me. It's far from my first, but in the last few months I've gotten much more serious about shooting, had some honest coaching, and added "archer" to the list of nowns that identify me, so it's the first in which I'm competing in for competing's sake, not just for shooting's sake.
Not for winning's sake, not even close. One thing at a time.
Sleep and practice? Check. I've been all over both of those. I was starting out yesterday well, too, averaging 27 on my first five ends. Then there was the unthinkable.
Either I nocked the arrow low, or it was on top of the button instead of in front of it, but I became acquainted with that one letter that all archers fear: the dreaded M. It wasn't even on the paper. Apparently, though, I'm getting better at shaking that kind of thing off, because I held on and pulled a 261 for the round. After the break, I was understandably tired, but finished the day at 524 - just one point behind where I feel like I should be shooting.
Today I went down a bit later and did less warmup, hoping to be less tired by the end. Even still, my shoulders were starting to get sore in weird places, so a 265 at the half worked out only to 525 at the end of the day. Final score: 1049. It'd be a lie to say that I'm happy with that, but it does feel like it correctly represents my current skill level. More worriesome is the strange soreness that was creeping into my shoulders at the end, but hopefully resting tomorrow will ease that.
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Coming into this tournament, it felt like a milestone for me. It's far from my first, but in the last few months I've gotten much more serious about shooting, had some honest coaching, and added "archer" to the list of nowns that identify me, so it's the first in which I'm competing in for competing's sake, not just for shooting's sake.
Not for winning's sake, not even close. One thing at a time.
Sleep and practice? Check. I've been all over both of those. I was starting out yesterday well, too, averaging 27 on my first five ends. Then there was the unthinkable.
Either I nocked the arrow low, or it was on top of the button instead of in front of it, but I became acquainted with that one letter that all archers fear: the dreaded M. It wasn't even on the paper. Apparently, though, I'm getting better at shaking that kind of thing off, because I held on and pulled a 261 for the round. After the break, I was understandably tired, but finished the day at 524 - just one point behind where I feel like I should be shooting.
Today I went down a bit later and did less warmup, hoping to be less tired by the end. Even still, my shoulders were starting to get sore in weird places, so a 265 at the half worked out only to 525 at the end of the day. Final score: 1049. It'd be a lie to say that I'm happy with that, but it does feel like it correctly represents my current skill level. More worriesome is the strange soreness that was creeping into my shoulders at the end, but hopefully resting tomorrow will ease that.
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I wouldn't worry too much about the soreness, it could easily be stress from the tournament making your muscles tense up.
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