Long Weekends

First off … Happy long weekend to all the BCer’s (British Columbia Folk) out there, be safe this holiday Monday. This is the 1st BC long weekend I’ve been home for in years. I decided to stay put this year as I’m already missing two Saturday dragon boat practices this month and our last festival of the season is in September.

Though not everyone was able to showed up to practice (due to work and the long weekend) so instead of two boats (22 people per boat) heading out on the water, we had enough people for one boat and lets just tell you it was one of the best practices ever. I’ve always found teams that combine their A and B teams every once and a while will make both teams stronger. But this team doesn’t think that its either A or B. I disliked it that some of our A boat folk don’t know the names of our B boat paddlers.

Anyways there were not a lot of people at the lake or on the lake but the waves from the few motor boats made it feel like we were paddling in Hawaii. We decide half way though practice that it was getting to hot, so the team beached the boat and most of us went for a swim. We also got to watch 3 deer as they walked by in the trees. Though we didn’t see the two eagles that normally fly over us/watch us as we practice.

Yesterday I had a small group of friends over for a bbq it was great fun. No long weekend is compete without a bbq. That was the 1st bbq I hosted (without family around) and I was surprised that all there wasn’t any food left, so I can’t have left overs this week oh well… But I guess that’s better then having a lot of food untouched.

How was your weekend/long weekend?
With long weekends do you find yourself staying home or try to get away?

Post on: Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Category: Dragon Boat, fitness, life
Tags: db, Friends, long weekends
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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.

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