Midland Area Plus Archery Competition - an event not to be missed!  In my case, particularly because it was this event last year that prompted me to find our local archery club, complete the beginners course, and join - standing me in good stead for this years competition.

A friend invited us over to Coventry the day before the event, with the intention of hitting the (goth) shops in Birmingham on the Saturday, having a few drinks in the evening, and going on to the competition on Sunday.  All went pretty much to plan, including a mini pub crawl in Coventry to sample the atmostphere and real ale of several interesting venues - staggering back to his, and just about waking up in the morning (no hangover -result!!), although I should really know better than to try and keep up with Adam in the drinking stakes…..!!   Some of us looked in a better state in the morning than others, it has to be said though!

The weather for archery was a bit hit and miss, and somehow we turned up about an hour earlier than the club were expecting us, but everything sorted itself out and we had quite a few hours of shooting.  It was a bit worrying when just as we got the hang of things, they decided not only to reduce the size of the target we were shooting at, but to move the shooting line back 10 yards!

Personally, I was pleased with my shooting, the advantage I had in experience was offset by having to use a club bow and arrows instead of my own, and no sights.  As always I think I should have done better, but then I always do and maybe I should be happy anyway with the fact that not only did I get the highest ladies score, but also the highest score overall (yay - beat Dave at something!!).  Also our team won due to the combined efforts of myself, Geoff, Stephen and Adam - Geoff also shot exceptionally well.

So for once, I was happy to be in the winning team and actually have contributed, as last year our team won but that was despite me, rather than down to anything I did well!

Now I’m raring to go to our next club meeting and see if I can improve.

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