Tuesday, June 26, 2007

National Schools' Dragon Boat Championship 2007

The Nationals was on Saturday

Here's the brief outline of our races (500m)
we had 3 10 crew boats..
the top 3 teams from each heats enters the final
heat 1: we got 4th, losing out by just 0.2 seconds..
heat 2: one boat got 3rd while the other boat got 6th..
final: we got 5th...

The girls got 2nd for both 20-crew and 10-crew.
20-crew men:
we had 2 boats
1 senior 1 junior
1st- NJC
2nd- ACJC
3rd- seniors
4th- juniors
5th- TPJC

I rowed in the junior boat:)
Was I disappointed not to have rowed in the senior boat and get the bronze medal?
I would be lying if I said no.
I mean, I've been rowing in the senior boat for most of the trainings and even rowed with them in the Masters...
I've grown used to the way they train and how they assess race sets etc...
And I've to admit that I felt a little weird when I first rowed in the junior boat during the last few trainings in bedok...
I felt kinda out of place?
But of course, I know that the J1s are my real team and that we'll be rowing together for another next year.

Anyway, Congratulations to the seniors :)
on the other hand, I was really really glad that I rowed in the junior boat for the Nationals.
Because, we rowed our best race set so far.
In trainings, we usually lose to the seniors by a boat length.
But this time round, we lost by a mere 2 seconds!!!
It was close!
We even beat the senior team from TPJC!
And the thing is that our team only started rowing together 2-3 months ago!

I'm super proud of the team!!!
Even Mr Lee said that he was surprised!
OMG, the team felt soooo good
This is the first time I felt so good without winning :)

Dear team,
We all know that we have great potential!
Lets all train super super hard to improve our fitness and rowing techniques!!!
I have turst in every single one of you!
I believe if we work hard enough, we'll be the team to watch in the next Nationals!


Oh btw, NJC got champion for every single race..
and when they recieved their medals for each races, there were no claps, no screams of joy from them
like WTF?!
they're like so damn used to getting gold

Like how we surprised Mr Lee
He surprised us by telling us that we'll be taking part in the Singapore Dragon Boat Festival.
the races there are like 800m!
We didn't even trained for that!
Well, its gonna be an eye opener for us :)
Jia You!

We had our post race dinner at some restaurant serving international buffet.
and the total bill was $2000 plus...
cool huh?
$32 per head.

The Hunks...

The babes...


I will miss the seniors

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