The Dragon Slayers dragon boat crew raced through the waters of Lake Ontario yesterday...4 times!! What a day! Imagine 20 women (actually, 18 women and 2 men - we had a crew change) all decked out in our finest rainwear paddling our hearts out. We really did. During the first race of 500m our oarsman thought it was in our best interest to yell out that we were 200m in...Yikes!! Do not do that when you are less than half way! Believe me - I could almost hear all the groans and I'm sure the boat went off stroke because of that LOL!
Well, we finished 4th place (of 5) and most of the crew slightly discouraged - although I wasn't - only my muscles were seriously shaking from the stress on them. Get me a juice and quick! Anyway, I was happy for two reasons: 1)that we had competed well in our first ever race and 2)that our first ever race was behind us.
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| A souvenir |
So, we ate and chit chatted away the time until our next race - a 200m which we thought we had in the bag...but we didn't. We came 5th (out of 5). But still, we were a team with heart! Our 3rd race brought in a new oarswoman (yes, a woman) and a drummer who worked so well together. She gave us a respectable 4th place finish (tied actually) and we went on to race 4 which thank goodness was only a 200m because by this point the Slayers were pretty much done. But, we were still smiling and laughing (mostly). So, a powerful start and our tough guns brought us to....2nd place! Yeah!!!!! We were so ecstatic I think we were almost crying (well, me anyway). And then we hi-fived the next team going out and packed up and headed home. Soaked. Tired. Proud.
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| Beware the mighty Dragon Slayers |
Keep smiling!
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