Been getting a lot of text messages asking where have I been lately?

It just seems like since Fathers Day weekend all I’ve been doing is heading to work, dragon boat practice, pilates (if I can make it) and spending my weekends at regattas after regattas. In a 7 weekend span I would have done 6 regattas but thankfully I was only sparing for 2 other teams and they didn’t need me so I get those weekends to just attend practice and sleep in my own bed (something I do miss when traveling). So by the time I get home I’m just wiped and I barely have the energy to check my email let along blog.

Don’t get me wrong but I love racing and mini paddling vacations but when it’s back to back like this it wipes you out and the additional heat stroke over the weekend didn’t help (I was doing everything correctly to avoid it and still got it ).

In none paddling news: I got promoted at work …. er ….. well just for this week as my supervisor is on holidays, which is alright until you look at how much work I’m covering (my job and all her job/responsibility).

So that’s what happening in my world as of lately, hows it going with you?

I didn’t think I was gonna be take a 26 day hiatus after the month long Comment for a Cause, which by the way raised $158 a bit down from last year but whatever. The money is going to a great cause and that’s what should matter.

I do have to say that the mini break was good. What have I’ve been doing for the last 26 days? Well I’ve been dealing with dragonboat related stuff off and on the water, since our racing season has began, we are on the water more. I’m also working on my clubs website and working on H2oGeeks behind the scenes stuff (finding a sponsor or two, team uniforms, paying for boat rental and the two regattas out of my own pocket) which I want to have all set in place before the 1st practice which is in a few weeks. So by the time I started thinking that I need to write a post on PGN (this site) I just was to tired to type something out. Though I did have a few things to write about but to late now.

How was everyone’s long weekend? I personally didn’t do much this year but relaxed and went to my two practices though I didn’t have to work yesterday so I got an extra day off. YAY!!! Though I did call in to check my voicemail at work so I wouldn’t have a huge number today.. Speaking of work, I should head into the office for a bit. I’d personally would love to work from home more (and work in my pj’s) but we aren’t allowed.

Have a great Wednesday!

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Since signing up for pilates as an extra workout routine I’ve noticed that I’m more flexible then I thought and it’s helped improved my rotation with a longer reach when I’m paddling. I’m kicking myself now because I really wished I signed up for a class when I moved out here two years ago instead of the other day since the gyms out here are over priced and aren’t well kept up. With that being said I’m really pleased with my outcome so far in the class, can’t wait to see the full results by this summer when the classes end.. I just wish it wasn’t so pricey

Other then that nothing much else is new other then I can’t wait for this Saturday, the boat I paddle on is in our 2nd regatta of the season.. I’ve never been on a team that’s been to it so this is gonna be fun and interesting I just hope that the weather gods bring out the sun instead of pouring buckets of rain like it did last Saturday.

With that being said I think it’s time for bed and I’m please I get to sleep in tomorrow since I don’t have to get up early and cover a route.. YAY!

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

I love dragonboating in Vancouver because of the amazing view of the city and mountains in the backdrop.

* Picture was taken by Aidan at a H2oGeek practice last year.

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

Had something totally different I wanted to write today but after what happened today.. I’m just numb…

Tonight’s Dragon Boat practice went from pretty freakin awesome to freakin scary. I say it was pretty freakin awesome because we had the power and were gliding though the water like our top team in our club and that I moved up in the boat… Tooo bench 3.. which I’m not use to I like the back of the boat cause of the fast water..

Then someone switched a switch and it went into freakin scary! One of my teammates pulled something in his back as we were working on a race piece as we were about 10 minutes out from the dock but we made it there under 4 minutes. Yay US!!!! When we got to the dock him and two of our teammates who have first aid went with him to the walk in clinic but as they were getting there he passed out so now they are in emergency. I hate this feeling of hurry up and wait to find out how he is doing..

Tonight’s practice was prepping us for this Saturdays regatta.

Hope everyone had a better Monday then I did..

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

Today was my clubs / areas 1st regatta of the season.. It was great fun but for the rain, rain and more rain that happened all day. No matter how many changes of clothes you bring or what your always gonna be feeling cold and damp.

I do have to say I’m VERY pleased with the club I paddle with each boat came home with a medal … Our most competitive team came home with a bronze in the A Final, our Youth team came home with a silver in the B Final (they were the only youth team there too) and the boat I was paddling on placed took home another bronze in the C Final. Which is freaking awesome with a boat full of newbies and 9 returning paddlers.

Wasn’t pleased when the zipper tag thingie on my pfd broke off (the pfd is 6 years old though) and before the 3rd race of the day one of my contacts popped out, thankfully I had extras in my bag but putting it back in without a mirror not fun.

Hope everyone had a great Saturday!!!

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

Today’s just been one of those days where you think its been half an hour since you last looked at the clock and its been like 5 minutes, or it goes by super quick..

I just finished packing my paddling gear and food for our clubs 1st regatta tomorrow. Can’t wait, I love this regatta cause its just sprints which are 200meter pieces (about 1min long) compared to the normal 500meter pieces that are at every other regatta/festival. Though I wish the rain would hold off until the end of the regatta, racing in rain isn’t fun!

Tonight is no different then other other night before a race, as you can always find me with a big bowl of pasta and my pepper salad and going though race prep by leashing up my nervous butterflies (err focusing in on what I need to do in a race) as part of my pre-race day prep.

I hate people who just say give it your all on a race, you should being giving it your all at every practice. How can you give it your all if you don’t know how to deal with it at a practice?

Have a great Saturday

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

For the last while, I just found heading to the gym or even working out at home isn’t doing for it for me anymore.. It just feels like I’m doing the same boring thing over and over again even if I changed something. So after a lot of thought and googling I found a pilates studio that’s about 15 minutes from my house, so tomorrow morning (err in a couple hours) I’ll be taking in my 1st pilates class (signed up for 15 weeks). I’m looking forward to be working out in a different way and not be waiting in line for a treadmill or the weights.

My goal isn’t to have a killer beach body by the summer but to be able to compete the skill tests that you need to do if you want to join the national bobsledding team. The one part of that test I’m NOT looking forward to is the running since I’m not a runner, no matter what if I truly try out for the team or not, I see this as a great cross trainer for my paddling.

What’s driving you to your fitness goal?

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

Today was an awesome day, Karen and I had a mid afternoon exec meeting for #H2OGeeks which is our twitter/social media Dragon Boat team (which I formed last year). Both of us can’t wait for this up and coming season as we are taking part in two regattas this summer and have 3/4 of the team from last year returning.

I’m still in aw that this team kicked butt last year at Paddle for Kids, here I thought we’d be ranked in the lower bunch but to my surprise we placed 7th overall out of 24 teams and some of them were real dragon boat teams that practice all year long. I wonder what this season has in store for us.

If you are from the Vancouver (BC) area and are interested in trying out dragon boating or wanting to join us please let me know asap as spots are filling up fast

Speaking about twitter and dragon boating, two Florida dragonboaters (who twitter) have put a team together of dragonboaters (who are active on twitter) for a festival happening next month, they are calling themselves Tweam Dragon Boat Team. It would be cool to take part in this dragonboat “tweet up” if you want to call it that but couldn’t get time off work. Hope those who take part have an awesome time!

Comment for a Cause (C4AC) is back for it’s 3rd year. C4AC is my way to raises funds & awareness. This year I’ve picked Right to Play as my charity of choice. Each comment this site gets equals $1 that I will be donating at the end of the month.. Don’t forget to keep up to date by subscribing to my rss feed

Not sure but there is something about when it’s Friday and all I can think about is being out on the water on Saturday, and then sleeping in on Sunday.. As the last few weeks I’ve been just on the go and my body is telling me to slow down but I can’t. Ugh..

Hope everyone had a great friday and a great weekend.

Sorry for the short post but trying to type when falling a sleep at the keyboard is a bad mix..