Saturday morning in the Brook Valley and the plan was to head to the club… until the rain dumped down and the place shut. So I switched it up and ran a proper pre-comp practice round at home: 30m, 80cm face, six ends of six arrows—exactly what I’ll be shooting at 30m in the 1440 (for me that’s 70/60/50/30, with the 50 and 30 on the 80cm). I had the cameras rolling, the chickens making noise behind me, and I shot it like a scoring round to get a real baseline with three weeks to go. I’ll be honest—I initially forgot the usual two sighter ends, so I called the first two ends my warm-up and started scoring properly after that. I could feel when shots were bad (holding low, moving too much), and the humid, wet weather had my glasses steaming up which didn’t help. Even so, this was only my second time shooting 30m on an 80cm face and I actually find the smaller target helps me concentrate harder. End result: 338 for my first ever compound 30m round (36 arrows) and I’m blown away. There’s still work to do—clean up that ugly 53 end, build strength, and I’ll likely twist my peep a fraction more—but this is exactly why I like structured, tournament-style practice: it shows you what’s solid and what needs fixing.