Two competitions in...

Just spent the weekend doing a team competition and boy, I am really not a team player any more. We were supposed to have a team of 3, which means lots of fights but I figured the more fights the better as it might even out my inconsistency, then suddenly it was 4, then 5 when we arrived on Saturday. Which meant long periods of watching other people do the stuff I was itching to do myself and that definitely had an impact on how I did when I actually got on the piste. *sigh*

It also made for a relatively expensive weekend, in terms of bang for your buck. I like to get my money's worth when I travel to fence and more fights = better. The annoying thing is that early on we were approached to see if our fifth person would like to fence for another region, who didn't have a full team, and she declined. If I'd known how I would feel now about it all, I should probably have been the one who jumped ship. At the time I was just 'why the hell should I?' but that seems to have been a poor decision on my part.

The previous (solo) competition was much better - had a very good round 1 then tanked a bit in round 2 and ended up blowing the elimination fight as I got someone tougher than I should have. Still, I did well enough to get ranking points and that was a major aim, even if the two toughest people who'd entered didn't turn up in the end (which means less points for the rest of us, as a good result in a tough competition gets you more points than the same result in a weaker one).

Next competition is in November, so we'll see how that goes...