Paddle For Kids 2009 – Recap
Post on: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 2:18 pmCategory: #H20Geeks, Dragon Boat, Fitness | Tags: charity, Dragon Boat, online friends, PaddleForKids, Vancouver
First off I want to thank my dragon boat team, Gary and Meaghan for supporting me.
BC Childrens 11th Annual Paddle for Kids charity event happened on Sunday, 30 teams registered though only 24 teams took part in the event. The weather was nice, wasn’t to hot out either. H2O Geeks raised over $3441 dollars in 7 short weeks and were ranked in 6th spot as of Friday afternoon for most fund-raised, which is not bad if you ask me. In the end Paddle for Kids raised over $95,681 dollars that’s over half a million dollars for BC Childrens hospital in Paddle for kids lifespan.
Our team H2O Geeks could have arrived on site on Sunday never having a chance to be in a dragon boat and then race, for me that was not an option, I wanted this team to be on the water as much as possible, for one get use to the boats and to learn the stroke. Like the old saying goes “practice makes perfect”. All summer long we never had a chance to paddle with a full boat (of 20 paddlers) until race day. It was a great experiences for all.
Some might have called this a “Tweet Up” on water, for me it was a way for Vancouverites who are also in the Vancouver Twitter Community to get together in a non bar setting and to meet people you wouldn’t normally meet at one of those functions and of course give back to our local community. We all know of someone who’s has been in a childrens hospital for one reason or another.
A video of our last race of the day: (I’ll youtube it later) We are in lane 3
We took part in 6 events though out the day, four of them being replay races (on land) and two races on the water. The water races consisted of doing an X obstacle course then line up the boat again and we do a spirit back to the start line. Our afternoon race was a lot better then the morning one (normally afternoon races are better then the morning), we just got more focused and kicked butt placing 7th overall. We stunk doing the relay races but we didn’t care, we were just having fun.
@paddlinggeek, @susanmain, @daydreamz @adeline604, (@bcchf came to support us) @winebard, @jonjennings and @skop
missing from picture: @juicybags, @erinlouise, @joshlavoie
I think Jon said it the best, next year we will have two boats of twitters. So Vancouverites you got two choices either join our team OR support our cause.
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I’m impressed with ur charity work 4 the kids & BC. Children’s Hospital. My late bro passed away @ the BCCH many yrs ago. Thx
Aw, it looks like you had a great time and it was really successful.
Heheh I like your team name! Very cool.
sounds like everyone had a good time
Congratulations on such a strong effort! And to think, I could try and organize that second boat full of people who have no idea what to do led by some guy who’d be more likely to sink the boat than make it go forward. Better yet – I’ll make the boat more like the pirate boat in the Stella Artois Light ad. Yep.. there’s a plan.
Wow Kimm! Congrat’s to you and your team raising so much money for BCCH. Looks like fun too =)
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