So I had the bowling fundraiser this morning. It was at 9 a.m. and a bit of a drive away, so I woke up at 7 a.m. after about four or fewer hours of sleep. We bowled three games. I was with four other guys from work, though I didn't really know any of them, so it was a little awkward at first. But it was a good group, and we more or less bonded by the end of it. And, of course, because we're guys, there was some good-natured competitiveness.
In the first game, I sucked. I barely broke 100 and just beat out another guy for not-last-place in our group. But halfway through the second game (about the time I would normally be waking up, incidentally), I hit my groove. I closed the game out with six strikes in a row.
Yes, SIX.
I finished the game with a new personal record of 191.
The third game had a pretty hum-drum start, but it ended up a bit above average at 136 thanks to three strikes in a row in the 10th frame. (I had 10 strikes between the last two games.)
So while I may not exactly be consistent, I did kind of feel like the Joe Nathan of bowling. And I'll take being a closer any day.
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7 comments:
Most impressive. :-)
six strikes in a row? you never bowled that well in duluth. but klaus did.
Hey there. Does our esteemed Halo opponent, Klamath, have a blog? Is it the newly redesigned Mecha Nations? Just wondering so I can go post notes on someone else's blog?
R
is six consecutive strikes a double turkey? i love bowling terms.
Brian: Six strikes in a row is indeed very impressive. The most I've ever gotten is half that, and that was when I was, like, eight years old. I was a much better bowler then.
R: Yes.
R, as Reuben points out, yes, that's him.
Christa, I just looked at some glossary terms and apparently once I hit the 7th frame, I went "all the way." Which makes me feel a little dirty.
Four or five strikes in a row is a four-bagger or five-bagger, but six in a row is apparently a sixpack.
Alas, it's the only kind of sixpack I'll ever have...
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