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Writer's Block: Going to Extremes
Mar. 26th, 2009 08:16 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Actually I trained for this at one time. In my late 30s/early 40s I was VERY FIT. Yeah *sigh* ages ago. And then I was doing a lot of shooting [longbow not guns] on an archery course that was in a wood on the side of a hill. A full round involved an eight mile walk up and down one in two or three slopes, and twenty eight target of varying difficulty. I got used to that and my instructor thought it would be really funny to introduce me to the concept of "The Apache". This was a type of archery competition that involved a race against the clock over a set course, usually about 5 miles, where one also had to get the best possible score, three arrows per target. Ones shooting score would be subtracted from one's time score from the footrace so one could either run like the clappers and hope that one wouldn't be too blown to shoot at all or take a more measured pace and hope to score high with the shooting. Very tactical. Naturally some people could both run like a deer AND score high and I had no illusions about competing in any effective sort of way, but it would have been fun.
Actually I trained for this at one time. In my late 30s/early 40s I was VERY FIT. Yeah *sigh* ages ago. And then I was doing a lot of shooting [longbow not guns] on an archery course that was in a wood on the side of a hill. A full round involved an eight mile walk up and down one in two or three slopes, and twenty eight target of varying difficulty. I got used to that and my instructor thought it would be really funny to introduce me to the concept of "The Apache". This was a type of archery competition that involved a race against the clock over a set course, usually about 5 miles, where one also had to get the best possible score, three arrows per target. Ones shooting score would be subtracted from one's time score from the footrace so one could either run like the clappers and hope that one wouldn't be too blown to shoot at all or take a more measured pace and hope to score high with the shooting. Very tactical. Naturally some people could both run like a deer AND score high and I had no illusions about competing in any effective sort of way, but it would have been fun.