dragonboating

saturday i woke up bright and early to arrive at the dragonboat race site at 8:30AM. holy schmoly that was early for me. poor diana was also there before me and she only got 3 hours of sleep because she was still working friday nite. i actually should have been ontime but i showed up at the practice site and not the racing site so i had to drive a little ways off.

at first i was kinda grumpy waking up so early. but when i got there, i was actually getting excited. there were so many people and so many companies. diana and i were helping out an old school friend, henry, who said the xilinx team needed more girls. actually his gf works for xilinx and not him. he works for gordon beirsch brewing beer! good to be a chemical engineer huh? haha.

i wasn't racing with xilinx for the first race so i subbed for cisco. i don't think any of the people there had attended a practice so during the race, paddles were hitting eachother left and right. i wasn't tired at all when we finished. the second race was a different story, everyone was perfectly in sync and i could really feel the boat being pulled by the paddles. we were going so fast, yet all of us were so tired at the end. since we were the fourth boat out, we had to spend the energy aligning ourselves with the other boats and didn't have any rest time before starting. crazy! but we did really well regardless. :)anyways, here are pics!


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here is when i realized we were about to take off and i didn't have a paddle. haha

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oh btw, we had the second fastest time for all the second round races. however they only took the boat which won each heat to move them on into semi finals. oh well.