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Originally Posted by Watch_Man  If you need to achieve a selection score and you know the weather is going to prevent you from achieving it, why waste your time and petrol? You can just pop down to your own club and practice in the field instead. When you have to travel a minimum of 50 miles to a WRS and at many events, stay overnight - what is the point if you are not going to achieve your aim.
You will find it is also common practice for those chasing ranking and quali scores to 'retire' rather than have a low score put in. As all WRS scores are recorded by GNAS some feel it is better to have no score than a low score.
Whether you agree with this or not is up to you. It is an individual sport and individuals have their own aims and objectives. How they achieve them is very much up to them and their coach. It is similar reasoning that stops many top archers participating in imperial rounds. |
I quite understand where you are coming from, but is this right? If you "know" the weather is going to prevent you doing anything, then you are defeated before you start - and when you hit "weather" in the Olympic final. And ranking and quali scores are taken from your best, rather than the total or average, so the only point of retiring is to kid yourself that you are better than you are. And this also sounds like defeatism. Both these cases suggest mor psych work is needed, rather than running away from the challenge.