Racing in a storm
Its almost a week since I posted oops (brain has been elsewhere with this heatwave).
The racing was great on Saturday I raced in 3 of our 4 races and I only raced in 2 of the ladies races which was fine for me didn’t want to over do it on a hot day. As we were warming up for our last race of the day the heavens decided to open by the time we were about to start our race the thunder and lighting started so the event organizers canceled the rest of the regatta. I think this is the 2nd regatta that got cancel half way though due to mother nature (the 1st one was two years ago where the wind was nasty and the white caps looked like we were in Hawaii)
In the end 4 heats of 4 boats (so 20 teams.. one of them being our A boat) each did not get a chance to race in the finals. Instead we all have an interesting story to tell as we got to see it before the rest of the lower-mainland did.
This wasn’t a normal thunderstorm either it was a sun storm, the lighting went from cloud to cloud mostly. When I got home I looked outside at the power lines near the house and noticed lighting hitting the same rod more then once. I was surprised that Vancouver still held their annual summer fireworks display.
While the fireworks were going on, I was hanging out with Gary, Rainer until 2:30 in the morning as they took part in the Blogathon.
So now I can say I’ve paddled in a thunderstorm/sun storm, hail (x4), white caps/nasty wind, snow(x3), smoke haze (there was a fire near by), fog, on the hottest day of the summer (outrigger in the morning and then went out again with #H2OGeeks), rain that felt like rhinos and elephants.
Heres a great youtube video of how the day went from nice to amazing/crazy
Paddle update: Still no paddle but the local rep’s mouth dropped when he saw the paddle in half.
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Hi, the name is Kimm, I'm a 30 year old Canadian who has been online since 1999. For the last 16 years my main passion has been dragon boating where I've eaten, slept and breathed it and raced all over North America. 
Sounds like a lot of fun. Surprised this was not all Twittered with a special hashtag. Or was it?
People have been twittering big events. I remember there were so many people typing on their laptops and tweeting…lol
BTW…layout is a huge improvement. If you might like, I could make you some matching icons for your rss and twitter. I need to get some sets out there anyway, so it would be nice to know I am motivated to give you something for your blog. It would include an email icon (kind of like the ones I put on Blondish.net)
Cute layout! I love it!
It must have been exciting to paddle in a storm! I bet it was awesome!