Most of the time teams/clubs have a day off when it’s a long weekend but we decided to train anyways as we are racing in less then 3 weeks and a extra practice doesn’t hurt.

Since it’s the long weekend and there wasn’t really one on the lake, our coach decided to mix it up by having 16 of us in the dragon boat and 6 in the 6 man outrigger (oc6) and switch us though a few times to work on a few different drills. Since in a outrigger you paddle both sides every couple strokes (10 or so) and with my shoulder/arm that is still not 100% yet I just stayed in the dragon boat. I really do miss training on both sides of a dragon boat and even to outrigger. Right now I keep telling myself, it’s one day at a time.

After practice I meet up with a @BCBerrie from twitter over lunch. It’s always nice to be able to hang out with someone in person then always talk via twitter/facebook/chat. The commute home was insane it was grid lock heading out of town and seemed like it was normal rush hour traffic flow heading into town. But thankfully I don’t have to go anywhere but the gym on Monday.

How is your long weekend/Saturday going?

It’s mid season with only two more months left of our season and it’s been an interesting year because of my shoulder. There are days I feel like I could do four races in a day and other days I feel like I can’t even do half a practice.

Yesterday my club took part in a local dragon boat festival and because I wasn’t sure about my shoulder so I opted to sit the last two races of the day, even though I was hoping to paddle in 3 races. But sometimes it’s better to cheer from the sidelines then do more damage to an injury. Both crews did really well, our true comp team took home gold, and we did pretty good.

Anyways some footage from yesterday..