Paddles up!

I got to paddle on the company dragon boat for the big Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival this weekend. It's the first time I've been in a dragon boat! And they did pretty well last year so the expectation was high!

This was of course after a month and a half of intense practices. It's hard to imagine paddling for 3 minutes would be so hard! But the practices definitely left me a bit nauseous every time.

Then came the big weekend! We started with a tough loss at a new site where the water was unkind and inconsistent between lanes. Such was the theme all weekend as teams pouted about the slow lanes. But that aside, it was still a blast, we won a couple races and ended up with a respectable ranking to build on next year.