As a club we decided to put on our first Frostbite (since I have been at the club anyway). I decided that the 1st Saturday in January every year is a good date – easy to remember and just after Christmas so everyone should be around for it. Well it wasn’t frosty, a bit misty though but the turnout was good with people we haven’t seen shoot for ages suddenly appeared.
In the end 13 of us shot, I only expected about 7 people. It was about 7-9 degrees so not exactly cold. Shooting 6 arrows again did feel difficult, we must be fitter than we think in the Summer. A lot of people didn’t know their sight marks for 30m either which made for some interesting shots in the first few ends.
We stopped after 3 ends and sighters for hot drinks and then continued on. Everybody enjoyed it and I finished with 291 on my recurve, shame I didn’t break 300 – I will next time! We may even do a frostbite round every month over Winter instead of keeping it to what we thought would be an annual thing.
I have ordered the Frostbite badges from Reading Archers for the people who scored over 200, as the badges only start at 200.
