Twenty twelve gold

In July 2005, to the delight of the nation, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Olympics are to be hosted in London. Lord Coe said: “This is just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport.” I have one of those dreams - to compete and represent Britain in the discipline of Archery. This Blog records my progress of my attempt to compete at archery in the 2012 Games, having no prior competitive experience.

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Friday, January 02, 2009

The Olympic dream is over

Yes it's true. The Olympic dream is over. After a couple of years I have decided that it's going to require more effort than I can afford to put in. I am still doing archery but now on "the dark side" and predominantly and most importantly for fun! You can follow my compound bow exploits on my new blog http://compoundunlimited.blogspot.com/

Thanks for following my progress thus far, but I will not be updating this blog any further. Good luck for 2009!

2 Comments:

At 11:35 PM, Margrit McIntosh said…

Dear Nick,

Sorry to hear you're leaving the Olympic dream, but I respect your decision. I too am an archery late-bloomer with extremely high aspirations, and a big part of the journey has been getting used to the reality of how much time and effort it takes to get really good at archery. I work full time and it is a daily struggle to keep up with my training. Only those who have walked this path truly understand how insanely demanding it it. Good luck with "the dark side." :-)
At 6:04 AM, Anonymous said…

Following your effort was interesting. I'm sad to read about your withdrawing from the recurve race.

500 to 1,000 arrows a day practice to achieve international level skills is a bit involved.

Good luck on the compound.

Peter