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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=TTeRsy"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=TTeRsy" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/279925055" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/279925055/registered-for-2008-bc-issf-pistol.html" title="Registered for the 2008 BC ISSF Pistol Championships" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=6157068957822358308" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6157068957822358308" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6157068957822358308" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/04/registered-for-2008-bc-issf-pistol.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-903560164437834519</id><published>2008-04-12T19:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T21:15:06.932-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="firearms safety" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Completed - Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course</title><content type="html">What a busy week! I picked up my new &lt;a href="http://www.ppt.gc.ca/"&gt;Canadian Passport&lt;/a&gt; last Tuesday and just completed my Non-Restricted and Restricted &lt;a href="http://www.cfc-cafc.gc.ca/"&gt;Firearms Safety Courses&lt;/a&gt; this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting my passport I thought might be a long process, but it was in my hands in less than 2 weeks and I waited no more than 20 minutes at the passport office. I remember hearing stories from 2007 of people &lt;a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/travel/story.html?id=13c43cc0-8c64-4902-a653-b5cc2ad32e16"&gt;waiting for hours&lt;/a&gt; and then &lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2007/04/20/passports-slow.html"&gt;waiting for weeks&lt;/a&gt;. There doesn't seem to be much of a wait if you complete all the paperwork online before you go to the office to drop it off... in fact I think I was even given a different ticket number because everything was filled in electronically and printed from online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080412/restricted-firearms-course-material.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Non-Restricted and Restricted Firearms Course Material" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080412/restricted-firearms-course-material.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;non-restricted and restricted course books,&lt;br&gt;plus exam results and PAL paperwork&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A special thanks to Albert Wood who is a certified instructor / examiner of firearm safety in British Columbia. His courses are enjoyable and filled with lots of great stories to keep the class engaged. You're also able to get your hands on disabled firearms to see how they work, everything from rifles, shotguns, to 9mm handguns. I'll post up dates for the next round of courses he'll be putting on. If you're interested in taking the course and are near Vancouver please let me know and I can forward your information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I have completed and passed the safety courses I must submit all my paperwork in to the police to get my PAL (Possession and Acquisition Licence). I'm hoping that all of this can happen before May 30 as that is when the &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca"&gt;BC Handgun Championships&lt;/a&gt; are and I'd like to shoot &lt;a href="http://www.issf-shooting.org/championships/olympic_games.asp#description"&gt;Olympic 50M Pistol&lt;/a&gt; there in preparation for &lt;a href="http://www.pistolcanada.ca/"&gt;Nationals&lt;/a&gt;. All this paperwork to compete in an &lt;a href="http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=SH"&gt;IOC supported sport&lt;/a&gt;! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from working a lot and getting all this paperwork in order I've been down to training only 1 night a week, I'll be ramping that up in May and June as the 2008 &lt;a href="http://www.pistolcanada.ca/"&gt;Canadian Nationals&lt;/a&gt; are July 12 - 20 and take place in Calgary, Alberta.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=OKUR9D"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=OKUR9D" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/269266143" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/269266143/completed-canadian-restricted-firearms.html" title="Completed - Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=903560164437834519" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/903560164437834519" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/903560164437834519" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/04/completed-canadian-restricted-firearms.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-7904289598809834072</id><published>2008-03-10T22:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-11T00:31:44.708-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="training" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="high-performance" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Tracking progress to achieve high performance</title><content type="html">In a &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/2008/03/day-1-2008-bc-airgun-championships.html"&gt;recent post&lt;/a&gt; I mentioned about my progress since last year and I thought it would be a good exercise to show it visually. In the last 10 months since returning to the sport I've managed to get myself back to where I was as a junior in the mid 90s when I was a National Junior champion to &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/2008/03/day-2-2008-bc-airgun-championships-new.html"&gt;shooting the best I ever have&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the chart below are various shooting events I've attended &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/2007/04/welcome-to-my-new-blog.html"&gt;since my first competition back&lt;/a&gt; in May 2007. Each competition had 1 to 3 matches which I took the average of all scores shot during a particular competition. In total I have shot 12 matches at 6 different competitions in the last 10 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080310/last-12-month-performance.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Al Harding's current performance tracking" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080310/last-12-month-performance.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 3 notable lines on the chart:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;593 - &lt;a href="http://www.issf-shooting.org/update/_records.asp?record=WR&amp;gender=M"&gt;The World Record&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;578 - The BC Provincial Record&lt;br /&gt;563 - The Olympic Minimum Qualification Score (&lt;a href="http://www.issf-shooting.org/championships/olympic_games.asp#general"&gt;MQS details&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've also added a trendline so I could see how I was doing over time. The last marker around the 570 mark is located around the time the Canadian Nationals in Calgary are. That's my goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've got a long way to go before competing Internationally, but I'm happy with my progress and intend to keep doing my best to get better. Even though I've been shooting higher than the Olympic MQS lately it doesn't mean much (yet). It's 'good'... but great comes after 580. ;) My last score of 568 would only have put me tied for 51st at the &lt;a href="http://www.results.sius.com/ShootEvent.aspx?Championship=EuropeanChampionships10m20080224WinterthurSwitzerland&amp;ShootEvent=AP60M"&gt;European Championships&lt;/a&gt; held a few weeks ago. Need more practice! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also want to say a massive Thank You to all the new subscribers and readers of my blog. Thanks!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=A0pEKl"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=A0pEKl" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/249346341" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/249346341/tracking-progress-to-achieve-high.html" title="Tracking progress to achieve high performance" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=7904289598809834072" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7904289598809834072" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7904289598809834072" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/03/tracking-progress-to-achieve-high.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-3013191695794357352</id><published>2008-03-02T20:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-03T00:06:59.381-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bc airgun championships" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Day 2 - 2008 BC Airgun Championships Results - new personal best!</title><content type="html">A great day of shooting today with a lot of high scores. I shot a new personal best of 568/600. Tyler Johnson and Edmond Lee both shot 569/600 and Dorothy Ludwig shot a new personal best also at 387/400 which is probably the highest score shot at the match when calculated by percentage. Nice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080302/al-harding-1st-master-2008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Al Harding collects his medal" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080302/al-harding-1st-master-2008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;1st in master class and new personal best&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond Lee was the overall Match Winner for men with a total of 1716/1800 (569,578,569). Tyler Johnson was the top male Junior with a total of 1698/1800 (560,569,569). I was 1st in the Master class with a total of 1694/1800 (564,562,568).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results for both rifle and pistol can be found &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080302/MARCH_2008_scores_A.xls"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=Wr2AVf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=Wr2AVf" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/244652996" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/244652996/day-2-2008-bc-airgun-championships-new.html" title="Day 2 - 2008 BC Airgun Championships Results - new personal best!" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=3013191695794357352" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/3013191695794357352" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/3013191695794357352" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/03/day-2-2008-bc-airgun-championships-new.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-3640049424096639069</id><published>2008-03-01T17:29:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-02T20:34:28.587-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bc airgun championships" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Day 1 - 2008 BC Airgun Championships</title><content type="html">Just a quick update...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BC Airgun Championships consist of 3 matches, 2 shot on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. This morning I shot my highest since returning to the sport last May.. a 564/600 followed by a 562/600 this afternoon. If you've been following my blog and my progress since last year you'll notice my scores are slowly moving up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe I'm currently in 3rd -- Two shooters who I really respect; Edmond Lee and Tyler Johnson both shot personal bests today. Impressive. Edmond shot a &lt;strong&gt;578&lt;/strong&gt; which ties the &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca/Pistol_records.html"&gt;BC record&lt;/a&gt; set in 2000 by Arno Baron and Tyler Johnson, still a junior shooter, shot a &lt;strong&gt;569&lt;/strong&gt; which is a new BC Junior record. Tyler unofficially beat my BC Junior record (566/600 set in 1993) last November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The aggregate score (out of a possible 1200 so far) for the 3 of us from today:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edmond Lee - &lt;strong&gt;1147&lt;/strong&gt; (569 + 578)&lt;br /&gt;Tyler Johnson - &lt;strong&gt;1129&lt;/strong&gt; (560 + 569)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com"&gt;Al Harding&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1126&lt;/strong&gt; (564 + 562)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More to come tomorrow...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=pnU1h8"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=pnU1h8" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/244109140" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/244109140/day-1-2008-bc-airgun-championships.html" title="Day 1 - 2008 BC Airgun Championships" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=3640049424096639069" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/3640049424096639069" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/3640049424096639069" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/03/day-1-2008-bc-airgun-championships.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-7444876213269010305</id><published>2008-02-26T11:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-13T20:52:51.424-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix Results</title><content type="html">Well I'm sitting at the airport about to fly back to Vancouver. I was going to drive to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls"&gt;Niagara Falls&lt;/a&gt; but it's snowing and visibility is limited so I came out to the airport early.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stayed in downtown Toronto last night and checked out some of what the city has to offer. What a great city! I walked around downtown with a friend of mine. At night the &lt;a href="http://www.cntower.ca/"&gt;CN Tower&lt;/a&gt; lights up in an array of colours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080226/cn-tower-at-night.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="CN Tower at night" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080226/cn-tower-at-night.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;1815 ft of LED light awesomeness&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results for the 2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix can be found &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080226/Grand_Prix_2008_Results.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BC Airgun Championships are this coming weekend in Richmond, BC. The competition will consist of 3 matches with the winner determined by aggregate score.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next stop Vancouver...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=h40sm0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=h40sm0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/241691177" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/241691177/2008-canadian-airgun-grand-prix-results.html" title="2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix Results" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=7444876213269010305" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7444876213269010305" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7444876213269010305" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/02/2008-canadian-airgun-grand-prix-results.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-5673367007997486588</id><published>2008-02-24T14:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-24T14:50:17.801-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Canadian Airgun Grand Prix - Day 3</title><content type="html">Day 3 of the 2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This second match was a bit of a struggle after the 1st 10 shots. I probably should have waited to try my new Sauer shoes because it seemed like I could not get into a good groove at all. I probably went through about 35 sighting shots and used up a lot of time but once I started I shot a 96 for my 1st string of 10 shots. I ended up with a 555 for my 2nd match. The combined score put me in 11th in a field of approximately 75 male pistol shooters including athletes from Trinidad &amp; Tobago, India, and the USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the match, I ventured out with local friends to get a small tour of Toronto. I went and checked out the CN Tower and got to see where all the big sports facilities were - &lt;a href="http://www.theaircanadacentre.com/"&gt;Air Canada Centre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.rogerscentre.com/home.jsp"&gt;Rogers Centre&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080224/cntower-toronto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="CN Tower" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080224/cntower-toronto.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;the world's tallest freestanding structure on land from 1975&lt;br /&gt;until the Burj Dubai surpassed it in 2007&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080224/cntower-city.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Toronto from 1465 ft Skypod level" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080224/cntower-city.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;toronto from 1465 ft skypod level&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080224/cntower-rogers-centre.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Rogers Centre - formerly known as SkyDome" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080224/cntower-rogers-centre.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;when the roof is open you could watch baseball games&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm venturing down to the Award Ceremonies in a few minutes and will probably update again tomorrow with complete results.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=S0Iu6G"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=S0Iu6G" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/240553215" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/240553215/canadian-airgun-grand-prix-day-3.html" title="Canadian Airgun Grand Prix - Day 3" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=5673367007997486588" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/5673367007997486588" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/5673367007997486588" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/02/canadian-airgun-grand-prix-day-3.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-4438186356510675494</id><published>2008-02-23T12:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-23T13:29:16.991-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Canadian Airgun Grand Prix - Day 2</title><content type="html">Day 2 of the 2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first round of shooting is complete and I finished the day with a 558 / 600. A decent score but under where I'd like to be (isn't that always the case? :)). I went in to today having slept great the night before and ate a good well rounded breakfast with lots of fruit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only shot 5 sighter shots which is less than what I usually do but everything felt 'on' so I started my first competition target right away. Part way through the match the clock mounted on the wall I was using to keep track of my time actually fell off the wall and broke on the ground. I had 20 shots left and knew I had lots of time so despite not being able to easily see a clock I didn't let time bother me. Take a deep breath. Take the shot. 10. Repeat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the competition was over I took a look at all the toys &lt;a href="http://www.targets.ca"&gt;Cibles Canada Targets&lt;/a&gt; and other vendors had for sale. I purchased a pair of &lt;a href="http://www.sauer-shootingsportswear.de/english/schuhe22.htm"&gt;Sauer pistol shooting shoes&lt;/a&gt;. These are probably some of the flattest shoes I've ever seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080223/al-harding-shocked-by-sauer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Al Harding shocked at the awesome flatness of his new Sauers" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080223/al-harding-shocked-by-sauer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;shocked at the awesome flatness of sauer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took them to the equipment check to make sure It was okay to swap shoes and use these rather than my regular sneakers I usually wear. Checked and ready. I'll be trying them out during tomorrow's match.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm currently hovering around 10th place. The top 8 men and women will do a Finals match tomorrow afternoon with another 10 shots scored to the decimal point. There are several countries here; mostly Canadian and American teams but also shooters from Trinidad &amp; Tobago, and India. Roger Daniel (Trinidad and Tobago) is currently in 1st place having shot a 576 / 600.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=QwDzK6"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=QwDzK6" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/240102073" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/240102073/canadian-airgun-grand-prix-day-2.html" title="Canadian Airgun Grand Prix - Day 2" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=4438186356510675494" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/4438186356510675494" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/4438186356510675494" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/02/canadian-airgun-grand-prix-day-2.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-2657992347457508440</id><published>2008-02-22T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-23T13:26:38.841-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Canadian Airgun Grand Prix - Day 1</title><content type="html">Day 1 of the 2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nice thing about this event is it takes place right in the hotel. They take over the conference rooms and have a good setup for registration, equipment check, scoring room etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I checked in and got my registration package and had my equipment pass the gun check and went over to the main area to do some practicing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080222/practice-canadian-airgun-grand-prix.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Air rifle shooter practices" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080222/practice-canadian-airgun-grand-prix.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;air rifle shooter practicing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During practice time I like to get a feel for the range; how the lighting is in the room, how the targets look, how the target carriers operate, where the washrooms are. Details. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Practice went well with about 30 shots taken. I don't really have a set number of shots I take during practice, it is more a case of knowing when things just feel right. The gun is sighted in and shots are going where you expect them to. No need to over do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first match is tomorrow morning at 10:15 am EST and I'll post up results after.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=JvwMMp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=JvwMMp" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/239653886" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/239653886/canadian-airgun-grand-prix-day-1.html" title="Canadian Airgun Grand Prix - Day 1" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=2657992347457508440" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/2657992347457508440" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/2657992347457508440" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/02/canadian-airgun-grand-prix-day-1.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-1015399421733195324</id><published>2008-02-20T21:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-20T22:06:21.591-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">New season, new look... a shiny new allanharding.com</title><content type="html">A few weeks ago I was working in Photoshop to come up with a better presentation for my shooting blog. I had a bit of extra time tonight before going to practice and wanted to get something new up before I left. Let me know what you think:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Visiting downtown Calgary" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20080220/new-look-allanharding.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;new look for allanharding.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I have this new look just in time for the Canadian Airgun Grand Prix which I will be updating daily from. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fly out tomorrow morning and have practice and registration on Friday and then shoot the 1st of two matches on Saturday morning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=3UxAlf"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=3UxAlf" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/238624239" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/238624239/new-season-new-look-shiny-new.html" title="New season, new look... a shiny new allanharding.com" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=1015399421733195324" title="5 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/1015399421733195324" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/1015399421733195324" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/02/new-season-new-look-shiny-new.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-4126676793134144690</id><published>2008-02-11T19:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T19:36:27.754-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="vancouver 2010" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Volunteer Opportunities - Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games</title><content type="html">Living in Vancouver and knowing the Olympics are coming to the city in a couple years is pretty cool. On February 12th, the Volunteer Opportunities website is going live so you can sign up for some 25,000 jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;...from the &lt;a href="http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=43ca781b-1b79-4e3f-bb3c-aad38fd56e1b&amp;k=23266"&gt;Vancouver Province&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We have a shift of people making sure that the flame doesn't go out," said Donna Wilson, 2010's boss of human resources. "We fondly know of them as 'flamewatchers.' "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to submit an application maybe I'll get to be a flame watcher! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process for becoming a volunteer sounds lengthy with phone screens and a 5 hour security screening and training session. You will be able to apply at &lt;a href="http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/Participation/VolunteerOpportunities"&gt;www.vancouver2010.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I leave for Toronto next week and will be blogging daily once there.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=gzysTk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=gzysTk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/233521830" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/233521830/volunteer-opportunities-vancouver-2010.html" title="Volunteer Opportunities - Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=4126676793134144690" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/4126676793134144690" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/4126676793134144690" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/02/volunteer-opportunities-vancouver-2010.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-3010123303257902952</id><published>2008-01-27T12:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-27T17:08:20.938-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bc airgun championships" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">2008 B.C. Airgun Championships - February 29 - March 2</title><content type="html">The Joe Elkin Memorial - 2008 BC Airgun Championships are being held once again in Richmond, BC on February 29 - March 2nd. The &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca"&gt;BC Target Sports Association&lt;/a&gt; website has been updated with PDF downloads of the &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca/pdf/08RegsMar.pdf"&gt;Regulations&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca/pdf/08ApplicationMar.pdf"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt; forms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That will be an extremely busy week for me as I'll be in Toronto from February 21 - 26 and then will only have a couple days before the BC Airgun Championships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Less than 4 weeks to go until the Canadian Airgun Grand Prix. Exciting! :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=ADsZvp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=ADsZvp" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/224276936" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/224276936/2008-bc-airgun-championships-february.html" title="2008 B.C. Airgun Championships - February 29 - March 2" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=3010123303257902952" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/3010123303257902952" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/3010123303257902952" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/01/2008-bc-airgun-championships-february.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-7490500895293361290</id><published>2008-01-15T00:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-19T13:03:46.492-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">"Ban handguns says Toronto mayor"...  uuuhhh yeah okay.</title><content type="html">From : &lt;a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/01/14/ban-handguns-toronto-s-mayor-says-after-passerby-gunned-down.aspx"&gt;National Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Mayor David Miller called for a total ban on handgun ownership after the fatal shooting this weekend of a passer-by outside a club on one of the busiest stretches of Yonge Street."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't blogged about the negative perception handguns have by some people. It's truly unfortunate how tragic some violent crimes are. It's also unfortunate that more often than not a gun is used during the crime. If all guns were banned some other weapon would be used. It won't prevent crime, it would just reduce crime with handguns, something else would take it's place. &lt;a href="http://www.taserban.com"&gt;Tasers&lt;/a&gt;? I welcome any comments about where you stand on this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I worry about what all the negative news means for my sport. I primarily compete with air pistols but would like to be competing in the 50m pistol events this coming year. Both are Olympic events. Hopefully getting all of my paperwork in order won't be difficult.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for the good news...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My hotel and flight are all booked and confirmed. I'll be in Toronto February 21 - 26, 2008. I'm looking forward to this match, being an Olympic year I suspect a lot of national teams from other countries will be attending. The event has room for 300 competitors so it is definitely going to be interesting to see how I do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're going to the &lt;a href="http://www.targetshooting.ca/cagp.htm"&gt;Canadian Airgun Grand Prix&lt;/a&gt; next month (especially anyone from British Columbia) let me know (email me: al [ @ ] allanharding.com), I want to make sure we get our teams registered and to see if we can get a BC Team dinner or something going one night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=K7DtwR"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=K7DtwR" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/216935531" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/216935531/ban-handguns-says-toronto-mayor-uuuhhh.html" title="&quot;Ban handguns says Toronto mayor&quot;...  uuuhhh yeah okay." /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=7490500895293361290" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7490500895293361290" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7490500895293361290" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/01/ban-handguns-says-toronto-mayor-uuuhhh.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-7656620454495580479</id><published>2008-01-06T22:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-06T22:56:17.588-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">2008 is MY year... everyone's actually!</title><content type="html">Happy New Year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well I was going to spend some time over the Holidays to clean up my blog a bit but instead I got sidetracked building a little Facebook application which I just finished the first version of tonight. It's called &lt;a href="http://2008.ismyyear.com"&gt;2008 is MY year&lt;/a&gt; and lets you enter goals for 2008 and track your progress to achieving them. The nice thing is starts to show you where you're investing your time which can lead to some clarity in your personal work / life balance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found myself keeping notes on Post-Its, note books, sometimes in text files on my PC or laptop but I needed something a bit more concrete to help me accomplish them. Now I've got them right in Facebook (and soon outside of Facebook). If you have a Facebook account do me a favour and try it out and offer up any feedback you can. Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for shooting... vacation is over. I'm back in training mode and getting ready for my 1st big match of the year -- The &lt;a href="http://www.targetshooting.ca/cagp.htm"&gt;2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix&lt;/a&gt; next month in Toronto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wishing everyone all the best this year! This is YOUR year! Go!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=T1HHmS"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=T1HHmS" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/212422270" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/212422270/2008-is-my-year-everyones-actually.html" title="2008 is MY year... everyone's actually!" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=7656620454495580479" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7656620454495580479" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/7656620454495580479" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2008/01/2008-is-my-year-everyones-actually.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-5939863968349195394</id><published>2007-12-03T23:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T23:56:39.181-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="canadian airgun grand prix" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title type="text">Confirmed registration for 2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix in February</title><content type="html">I received confirmation that I am registered for the &lt;a href="http://www.targetshooting.ca/cagp.htm"&gt;2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix&lt;/a&gt; being held in Toronto, Canada next February. This is the largest airgun competition in North America and usually attracts teams from Japan, China, Europe, and the USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of changes happening in my life these days. Good changes. Positive changes. I've been getting my work / life balance shuffled around a lot, changing diet, sleeping a lot better. Good stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past weekend I ran the 5km Santa Shuffle run in Stanley Park. I ran this last year and got a time of 42:00 and this year I beat my time by about 9 minutes and finished it in 33:10. I usually don't run a lot due to the impact on my foot and leg -- I have a metal plate and 7 pins in my left leg thanks to a break a couple of years ago. I'm happy with my new time and will target 30 minutes next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still haven't found much time to update the look of &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com"&gt;allanharding.com&lt;/a&gt; but I think I'll get around to some updates over the holidays. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=3DOqtH"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=3DOqtH" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/194824771" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/194824771/confirmed-registration-for-2008.html" title="Confirmed registration for 2008 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix in February" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=5939863968349195394" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/5939863968349195394" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/5939863968349195394" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/12/confirmed-registration-for-2008.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-6377682626371256367</id><published>2007-11-04T22:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T23:50:27.649-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><title type="text">562 / 600 - 3rd place finish at Hibernation Match</title><content type="html">The competition is now over and I shot the following scores 555/600, 556/600, and a 562/600 today. The combined score was enough to put me in 3rd place in the Master class and the top pistol shooter from British Columbia. Some excellent competition flew out West to attend this match. Stan Wills from Alberta placed 1st, Jesse Olsen who is originally from Burnaby, BC flew in from Saskatchewan and placed 2nd. Jesse recently returned to Canada after attending the &lt;a href="http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/15wing/news/releases_e.asp?cat=59&amp;id=4493"&gt;Military World Games&lt;/a&gt; in India a few weeks ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big story from the pistol side of the competition was with the junior men shooters. Matthew Hendry (Saskatchewan) and Tyler Johnson (British Columbia) who broke records at the &lt;a href="http://www.2007canadagames.ca/"&gt;Canada Winter Games&lt;/a&gt; did very well at this competition. Matthew Hendry was the overall Match Winner beating all of the Master class. I'm looking forward to seeing how he progresses... at 17 he's going to be one to watch. Tyler Johnson shot a new personal best of 568/600 which is a new BC Junior record. Nicely done! That score betters my 566/600 record I set in 1993 and tied again in 1995. The &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca/Pistol_records.html"&gt;BC Men's Air Pistol Record&lt;/a&gt; is 578/600 set by Arno Baron in 2000. I've got more work to do. ;) Earlier this year at the 2007 Canadian Airgun Grand Prix a BC team record I set 12+ yrs ago was also broken by a few points. This is great to see!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm definitely pleased with my own progress this far, considering I've only been back at it for 6 months (after &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/2007/04/welcome-to-my-new-blog.html"&gt;12 yrs away from the sport&lt;/a&gt;) and I'm only 4 points off my Junior personal best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The competition season for me is finished until February 2008 when I travel to Toronto for the &lt;a href="http://www.targetshooting.ca/cagp.htm"&gt;Canadian Airgun Grand Prix&lt;/a&gt;. I'll be back to training after a short break later this month and will finally get around to making some of the updates I've been working on. I'll also try and get the rest of the match results posted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quick shout out to &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca/"&gt;British Columbia Target Sports Association&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=VL8LLx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=VL8LLx" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/179925929" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/179925929/562-600-3rd-place-finish-at-hibernation.html" title="562 / 600 - 3rd place finish at Hibernation Match" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=6377682626371256367" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6377682626371256367" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6377682626371256367" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/11/562-600-3rd-place-finish-at-hibernation.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-5895779406623576645</id><published>2007-10-27T21:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T23:42:27.122-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><title type="text">UPDATED: Richmond Airgun Match this weekend</title><content type="html">I've been slow to update &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com"&gt;allanharding.com&lt;/a&gt; and keeping busy with life, training, practice, work, etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm shooting at a local competition in Richmond, BC on November 2-4. The event is being held at &lt;a href="http://www.sportstownbc.com"&gt;Sportstown BC&lt;/a&gt; and both relays are completely full and a wait list has been started. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE: I got my numbers wrong... there are 30 positions available and 58 competitors registered for the competition.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=64SuZo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=64SuZo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/157969161" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/157969161/finished-3rd-at-western-canadian-air.html" title="Finished 3rd at the Western Canadian Air Gun Championships" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=1225587766057893579" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/1225587766057893579" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/1225587766057893579" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/09/finished-3rd-at-western-canadian-air.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-2797949196711700103</id><published>2007-09-15T22:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T01:12:18.462-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="western canadian air gun" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><title type="text">Arrived in Calgary for the Western Canadian Air Gun Championships</title><content type="html">I arrived in Calgary Friday morning and ventured into downtown to see what Calgary is all about. I haven't been here in many many many years, actually I don't think I've spent much time here other than at the airport.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/al-harding-at-calgary-tower.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Visiting downtown Calgary" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/al-harding-at-calgary-tower.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;Medal ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics were here&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started out by checking out the &lt;a href="http://www.calgarytower.com/"&gt;Calgary Tower&lt;/a&gt; and the various parks and buildings left over as legacies from the 1988 Winter Olympics held here. The Tower is pretty cool, then again I'm a huge fan of buildings and man made structures. I particularly liked the glass floor of the observation floor. Freaky!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/looking-up-at-calgary-tower.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Calgary Tower" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/looking-up-at-calgary-tower.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;Looking up at Calgary Tower&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/glass-floor-calgary-tower.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Glass floor at the Calgary Tower" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/glass-floor-calgary-tower.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;Stepping on the glass floor of Calgary Tower&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later on Friday I met up with my friend Lynda Hare who I was staying with and we got to the range and went through equipment check and had about 6 minutes to practice. It felt good. The range is well lit and the target carriers are electronic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday I was on the last relay so I would be shooting at 11:00 am and then again at 5:00 pm. The first match went well with a score of 560 / 600. I can definitely tell the training and practice is starting to get me back to my old scoring range. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In between matches my friends Lynda and Dorothy and I ventured out to the &lt;a href="http://www.canadaolympicpark.ca/"&gt;Canada Olympic Park&lt;/a&gt;. This was something I really wanted to see while here as I always missed getting to see it on my other visits to these parts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/canada-olympic-park-in-september.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Canada Olympic Park - September 2007" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/canada-olympic-park-in-september.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;The Canada Olympic Park is buzzing with activity year round&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We didn't have long but I got to see and experience what I wanted to see. I definitely want to come back in the Winter time. It's neat seeing the park so active in the Summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/al-harding-in-cool-runnings.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Al Harding rocks the bobsleigh at COP" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/al-harding-in-cool-runnings.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;Good thing this wasn't actually on ice... I'd probably hurt myself. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/canada-olympic-park-the-ice-house.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="The Ice House at Canada Olympic Park" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070915/canada-olympic-park-the-ice-house.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;The Ice House at Canada Olympic Park&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indoor training facility called the Ice House is a pretty cool facility. Literally. ;) Apparently it is the only indoor training facility in the world for sliding athletes. We got to see bobsleigh athletes training on the indoor track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to the shooting range, the second match started out well but my endurance for shooting so much in one day is not up to where it needs to be. My first 3 strings were 94, 95, 93 and it got harder and harder to lift the gun for the last 30 shots. I'm going to be working on this over the next few weeks as I have a local competition coming up in November where 3 matches are shot over 2 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm currently tied in 2nd with another BC shooter and will be shooting in the Finals tomorrow morning. I haven't shot in Finals since Nationals in 1995 when I shot in the 8th position. I was still a Junior at the time but shot high enough to shoot with the Men that year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finals are shot to the decimal point so shooting a perfect 10 is worth 10.9 points. BC shooter Edmond Lee and I are currently tied with 1114 points each.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=c8enfd"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=c8enfd" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/157495564" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/157495564/arrived-in-calgary-for-western-canadian.html" title="Arrived in Calgary for the Western Canadian Air Gun Championships" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=2797949196711700103" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/2797949196711700103" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/2797949196711700103" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/09/arrived-in-calgary-for-western-canadian.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-223448052049025358</id><published>2007-09-11T23:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T22:38:19.091-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="western canadian air gun" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><title type="text">Flying to Calgary Friday</title><content type="html">I wasn't able to attend the match this past weekend. I've been getting out to practice when I can and the &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/2007/08/registered-for-two-competitions-in.html"&gt;recent changes&lt;/a&gt; I've made seem to be working out well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who would have thought moving and super busy work schedules could be so time consuming! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fly out Friday morning and will be home late Sunday night. I'm going to try and find some time during the weekend to post up event photos and scores. Stay tuned to &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com"&gt;allanharding.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=kUlYez"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=kUlYez" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/155815904" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/155815904/flying-to-calgary-friday.html" title="Flying to Calgary Friday" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=223448052049025358" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/223448052049025358" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/223448052049025358" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/09/flying-to-calgary-friday.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-6503883970114347034</id><published>2007-09-07T23:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T23:28:58.706-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><title type="text">Vancouver's BC Top Gun match this weekend</title><content type="html">It's been a chaotic last few weeks with a hectic work schedule and with moving. I've moved to downtown Vancouver to be closer to work, clients, etc. I'm still trying to get things sorted out in order and on top of that the &lt;a href="http://www.bctsa.bc.ca/pdf/07%20TopGunPistolInfo.pdf"&gt;BC Top Gun match is this weekend&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This weekend will be an early indicator of &lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/2007/08/registered-for-two-competitions-in.html"&gt;how recent modifications&lt;/a&gt; I've made to my grip, trigger, and stance are all working. I probably should have only made a few minor changes and seen how the changes worked but I've been super excited since getting back from Nationals and putting some new ideas into practice. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next weekend I'm flying to Calgary, Alberta for the &lt;a href="http://www.crpc.ca/"&gt;2007 Western Canada Air Gun Championships&lt;/a&gt;. Once I get back from Calgary I'll shift into training mode again and I have a few goals I'm going to work towards. One of my top priorities will be giving this website a bit of a design change. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm only competing on Sunday morning and need to finish moving and organizing a bunch of my boxes so I will send an update again after the match is over and the results are in.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=PSfCSH"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=PSfCSH" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/153752303" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/153752303/vancouvers-bc-top-gun-match-this.html" title="Vancouver's BC Top Gun match this weekend" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=6503883970114347034" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6503883970114347034" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6503883970114347034" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/09/vancouvers-bc-top-gun-match-this.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-5501875409135002749</id><published>2007-08-17T17:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T23:12:30.479-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="western canadian air gun" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><title type="text">Registered for two competitions in September</title><content type="html">I've submitted my registration forms for two matches in September. I'm excited that I have the opportunity to attend two matches only a week apart. In Europe I could probably compete every weekend if I wanted to, but here in Vancouver there are only a few matches every year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first match I'll be attending on Sept 7-9 is the 2007 BC Top Gun Match. It is a 5 gun event, but until I get my firearms license paperwork finalized I can only shoot Olympic Air Pistol. This is okay though as it is my favorite event. :) I will definitely be writing about the experience of navigating through Canada's firearm laws as I go through the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second event is the Western Canadian Air Gun Championships, this event will have two matches with the combined score used to determine the winner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll be making some modifications to my training over the next 3-4 weeks. I'll be adjusting my stance a bit and working on my grip and trigger control. For my stance I'll be shifting my feet around so that I'm raising my shooting arm more in front of me instead of out towards my side. In the image below my shooting arm goes out directly to my right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070822/al-harding-shooting-stance-change.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="Al Harding Pistol Shooting Stance Changes" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070822/al-harding-shooting-stance-change.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;The new stance brings the left leg forward and rotates the right leg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see from the shoe prints it isn't a major change, but the slightest change in foot position can actually make a big difference in a precision sport. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My busy work schedule is starting to pick up so I'm hoping to get out to train enough before I leave for Calgary.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=lEXg3P"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=lEXg3P" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/147206727" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/147206727/registered-for-two-competitions-in.html" title="Registered for two competitions in September" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=5501875409135002749" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/5501875409135002749" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/5501875409135002749" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/08/registered-for-two-competitions-in.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-6825658825421030169</id><published>2007-08-14T23:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T23:30:22.577-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nationals" /><title type="text">14th place finish and 3rd place in a team event</title><content type="html">I finished the match in 14th place. Good, considering there were close to 50 male competitors and I was shooting with most of the top 10 back in the early 90's. These guys have been shooting awhile... several of these guys are on the National Team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the BC Team's we entered was for the Air Pistol event. Our team placed 3rd so we got the bronze medal for that. My teammates were Edmond Lee and Mark Johnson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll be shooting two matches in September, one is in Vancouver and the other is in Calgary. I'm hoping that a few more matches will help me get back to my 94% range. Getting all of my firearm paperwork will also be helpful as I'd like to be shooting 50m Free Pistol again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long travel day tomorrow. 2 hr drive and two flights... :) It will be good to get back to Vancouver.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=VafFGl"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=VafFGl" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/144298987" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/144298987/14th-place-finish-and-3rd-place-in-team.html" title="14th place finish and 3rd place in a team event" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=6825658825421030169" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6825658825421030169" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/6825658825421030169" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/08/14th-place-finish-and-3rd-place-in-team.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-981081060428844853</id><published>2007-08-14T12:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-28T23:32:45.279-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nationals" /><title type="text">2007 Canadian National Junior Air Pistol Finals</title><content type="html">The Air Pistol Junior Finals just wrapped up with both Junior Male and Female shooting Finals at the same time. It was cool to see all 16 competitors shooting. The girls dominated the Finals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070814/2007-10m-junior-air-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;" alt="2007 Canadian Junior Air Pistol Finals" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070814/2007-10m-junior-air-final.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 8pt;" align="center"&gt;10m Air Pistol Junior Male and Female Finals&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junior Male 10m Air:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Result&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Competitor&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Province&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Scores&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Final&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Total&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Matthew Hendry&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;SK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;554, 561&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1209.5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Philippe Tousignant&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;QC&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;543, 554&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;91.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1188.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Stuart Krantz&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;SK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;539, 547&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;93.4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1179.4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ryan Ward&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;531, 543&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1168.4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Jordan Samoila&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;SK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;548, 522&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;84.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1154.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Matthew Kao&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;528, 532&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;92.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1152.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Timothy Hildebrand&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;525, 531&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;92.4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1148.4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Tuo Su&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;BC&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;523, 537&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;84.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;1144.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junior Female 10m Air:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Result&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Competitor&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Province&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Score&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Final&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Total&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Danielle Marcotte&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;YK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;356, 368&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;97.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;821.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Alix Findlay&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;365, 356&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;815.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Catherine Thwaites&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;BC&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;365, 357&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;90.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;812.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Amy Stewart&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;360, 358&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;87.5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;805.5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Christine King&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;SK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;362, 338&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;92.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;792.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Shvawn Christensen&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;351, 346&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;91.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;788.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Bailey Teitge&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;341, 341&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;89.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;771.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ashley Parker&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;334, 332&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;84.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;750.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awards banquet is tonight and then tomorrow I drive south to Saskatoon before flying home to Vancouver tomorrow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?a=UB9EKp"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/AllanHarding?i=UB9EKp" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~4/144159058" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AllanHarding/~3/144159058/2007-canadian-national-junior-air.html" title="2007 Canadian National Junior Air Pistol Finals" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4465395897093600548&amp;postID=981081060428844853" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllanHarding" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/981081060428844853" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4465395897093600548/posts/default/981081060428844853" /><author><name>Al</name></author><feedburner:origLink>http://www.allanharding.com/2007/08/2007-canadian-national-junior-air.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4465395897093600548.post-5547227538175408556</id><published>2007-08-14T08:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T09:51:02.870-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2007" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nationals" /><title type="text">2007 Canadian National Air Pistol Finals</title><content type="html">Results for the 2007 Canadian Nationals Air Pistol Finals are in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men 10m Air:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070814/2007-10m-men-air-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="2007 Canadian Men Air Pistol Finals" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070814/2007-10m-men-air-final.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-size:8pt;"&gt;10m Air Pistol Men's Final&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:100%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Result&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Competitor&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Province&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Score&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Final&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Total&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Yuri Movshovich&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;564&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;97.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;661.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Steve  Maly&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;NS&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;566&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;660.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Scott Illingworth&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;562&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;98.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;658.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Jesse Olsen&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;SK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;560&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;98.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;658.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Stan Wills&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;562&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;656.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;JP Huot&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;PQ&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;562&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;656.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Oscar DiPilla&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;PQ&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;559&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;93.3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;652.3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;James Sandall&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;560&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;91.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;651.1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Glenn Ohlman&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;MB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;518&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;91.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;609.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women 10m Air:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070814/2007-10m-women-air-final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="2007 Canadian Women Air Pistol Finals" src="http://www.allanharding.com/images/20070814/2007-10m-women-air-final.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="font-size:8pt;"&gt;10m Air Pistol Women's Final&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:100%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Result&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Competitor&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Province&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Score&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Final&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Total&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Dorothy Ludwig&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;BC&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;382&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;93.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;475.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Kim Eagles&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;BC&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;377&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;97.5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;474.5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Charlene Johnson&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;BC&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;376&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;97.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;473.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Avianna Chao&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;372&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;95.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;467.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ena Ward&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;371&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;465.3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Lynda Hare&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;AB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;363&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;96.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;459.7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Jana Stieb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;SK&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;367&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;90.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;457.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Filiz Cakmak&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;363&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;93.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;456.8&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Karen Van Nest&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ON&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;361&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;94.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;455.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junior Finals will be online shortly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/AllanHarding?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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