The Kindness of Strangers

It’s been so long since I’ve done any form of exercise and I fear that all the progress I made last year has been lost. I was so proud of myself for losing all that weight and decreasing my body fat %. I was at my fittest last year weighing in at about 125 lbs [...]

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Pickering Dragonboat Regatta 2009

This weekend, my team competed in the Pickering Dragonboat Regatta. There were a few moments in the morning where I thought we were going to have another rainy day of racing. However it quickly cleared up and in the end the day turned out to be beautiful. In fact, I ended up getting quite a [...]

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Absent Coach

Monday night Coach, AB sent out an email to the team regarding our workouts. He noticed that teammates haven’t exactly been putting in 100% effort in them. People are either coming late and only arriving just in time to get on the water or are doing only half the workout. I was a bit surprised [...]

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Active Rest

Today was my second day of on water practice. I was a little unsure about our new coach as he seemed very laid back. His coaching style is very different from last year’s in the sense that I felt he was much more approachable. Sometimes this can work against a coach because teammates may become [...]

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First Day Of Practice

Sunday marked my dragon boat team’s first day of practice. We were at a new facility this year for pool practice because the facility where we practiced last year had the land reclaimed. So alas, like many dragon boat teams we were in search of a new facility to start our dry land training/pool practice. [...]

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