Ramblings of a Wandering Luney

I guess I should post about the fencing tournament. It went really well. I got to see Rachel!!!!!! It was good to see her, but I only got to see part of one of her bouts, but she looked like she was doing really well. In my first pool I went 3-3 (the three I won I 5-0 the girls, and I should have won one of the ones I lost, but I made a dumb mistake....yea... need to work on those disengages...). It was weird getting use to the new timings and actually fencing electric since I never get to do that in practice and we never practiced the new timings. I went 2-3 in my second pool (despite getting three yellow cards that really made me frustrated). I won my first DE 15-4, but lost my second 15-7 to an A rated fencer (A is the highest rating you can get). I was quite proud of myself for scoring 7 touches on her. In the end I placed 29th out of 63.

Clemson got a medal for women's foil and could have gotten one for men's epee. Mitchell was in first after the pools, but our poor guys were so tired from getting no sleep the last few nights (we had to drive our own vans instead of getting a bus so sleeping was impossible, and there was a fire alarm incident that lasted awhile Saturday night). Also, Mitchell never does as well if he does into DEs ranked high (from what I hear). But that's okay. Overall I think we did really well for being one of only two clubs that went.

Well, I won't bore you with details. I remember how annoyed you all use to get when I talked about horse stuff so I'll show you the curtesy of not giving a play by play.