It’s Race Day and a Blogathon

Its early and its race day and I thought I’d post something before I head out the door to meet up with my dragon boat club (all three teams, our A, B and junior teams) will be taking on the lake by storm.

I’m also one of seven ladies who will be helping out one of our teammates teams that they coach. As they are short paddlers. By the end of the day we seven ladies will have raced in 5 or 6 races when everyone else will have done 4. Hopefully this heat will not effect us in any shape or form as the temperature has been in the early 30′C ‘s all week. I heard today it might be up to 35′C + (that’s about 95″F). For one I’m not use to this temperature I like the mid teens – early twenties range.

So with that I have four 1.5 Litre water bottles, tones of fruit, a healthy lunch and my famous trail mix (I make about two freezer bags full at a time)

M&M’s
Shelled Sunflowers Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds
Raisins
Dried Cranberries
Dried Blueberries
*Optional*
Dried Banana’s .. Don’t like having them go mussy on me when I’m at a race.
Nuts.. A teammate is allergic to them so I don’t have them in there.

Its also Blogathon Weekend for most bloggers. Where they will be raising money for a charity of their choice and blogging every 30 minutes for 24 hours. If I wasn’t racing this weekend, I would have taken part.

Good Luck: Rebecca, Raul, Duane, Gary, Rainer, Kristi and Aidan

Paddle Update: I was talking to the local rep, and he mentioned that because I wasn’t the one who purchased the paddle, it can’t be fixed but I might have a new paddle by the end of this weekend or week (not the one I’ve been eying but another one). The rep also said that he has never seen or heard about my version of paddle breaking either. Today, I’m using my other carbon fiber paddle that I have (thankfully I have a few paddles)

Have a great weekend

Post on: Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Category: Dragon Boat, fitness, internet, life
Tags: blogathon, db, internet, online
5 Comments » Caity | Nikki-ann | Jonna | VancityAllie | Cindy |

• July 25th, 2009 at 9:07 am
  

  Caity said,

  Wow that looks so yummy!!
  I hope you can get another paddle!!

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• July 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
  

  Nikki-ann said,

  I hope you’re having a good race day! Good luck

• July 25th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
  

  Jonna said,

  35C?! That’s like… almost sauna temp. I’d burn to a crisp and melt in that kind of heat.

  Out of curiosity: how much does a paddle cost?

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• July 27th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
  

  VancityAllie said,

  Yum! That trail mix looks REALLY good!

  How did the race go?

  Hope you are well!

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• July 30th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
  

  Cindy said,

  The trail mix is making me hungry as I read what is in it! Whenever I have a bag of dried cranberries, they do not last over two days. I just munch them up one by one until they are gone. Speaking of which, I should go and buy couple of bags since there is hardly anything good to eat at my house.

  I am in complete envy with the temperatures you have in BC! For us it has been raining every other day….once in a while we get the heat. *le sigh*

  I hope the race went brilliantly!

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