Squeezed in 1 hour on the stationary bike today. First day of roping competition and things didn't go great. The competition format is fairly complicated and I won't go into too much detail. We (my team partner and I) had a penality on the first steer. Our 3 times for the day were 9.3(+5), 8.7 and 7.3. Without the penality we would have been setting 5th overall (375 entries) and in the drivers seat for a big win. But because of the penality, we are now pushed back to the consolation portion of the roping where the drop our first time and we finsih out the roping with 2 more steers. We should be setting pretty good in the consolation with our two fastest times but now we have to rope 2 more with no penalities to get into the money instead of only one. Actually without the first penality we would have already been in the money. Oh well...this is more like playing 4 round of golf against 375 other very good golfers. It makes for some really tough competition. since this is the national finals, there are many of the best ropers from all over the US and Canada here. The roping and competition is great but LV stinks! |