Another historic team race event is in the books for Nothin’ Dragon at the 35th annual Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver’s False Creek!
Congrats on our Team Black seniors for taking bronze, our women for taking silver, and our Team Black mixed for taking gold, as well as our open team for putting in our fastest time of the weekend and making it into the B finals!
So much went into organizing this weekend! With over 45 of our teammates participating, a BIG thanks to Coach Denise who ensured we were race-ready and did all the registering and communications with the event to ensure we could make our race times. She compiled lineups and made last-minute tweaks as the weekend progressed.
Our women’s team took SILVER! (Official Concord photo)
Thanks to our assistant captains Randy and Steve, Brian for sorting out our bus, Darlene and those who helped do warmups, and our managers (Lori and Pat W.) who kept our race board up to date, and to Linda for helping transport and set tents and equipment. Thanks to Bob and Elizabeth who stepped up to lead our team cheer. It was great to have alumnus, Ric out on Saturday to help paddle in the senior race as well as steer. A BIG shout out to our steers and drummers who kept us safely on course and motivated!
We put in a lot of walking, over 20,000 steps per day reported by those with FitBits. It was exciting to race against teams from across Canada, the USA and Australia. The event's live coverage was enjoyable and brought a reality to how we looked in the boat and on the course.
Very exciting race action! You can check out the livestream replay of both day on their YouTube channel:
Our Senior C BRONZE medal team! (Official Concord photo)
Here are our team's race results:
DAY 1--------------------------
Race 1
RED 2:48.608 (5th)
Race 9
BLACK 2:34.191 (6th)
Race 14
OPEN 2:31.493 (7th)
Race 15
WOMEN 2:46.594 (7th)
KNOCKOUT CUP (100m)
Race 25
RED 0:32.384 (7th)
BLACK 0:31.133 (3rd)
Race 26
RED 0:32.365 (7th)
BLACK 0:30.036 (3rd)
Race 27
BLACK 0:31.115 (3rd)
Race 37
RED 2:45.187 (4th)
Race 42
BLACK 2:34.98 (5th)
Race 53
WOMEN 2:45.307 (7th)
Our ladies in pe-marshaling area. They went on to take a silver medal.
DAY 2--------------------------
Race 57
WOMEN 2:42.512 (6th in C/D/E semi)
Race 65
BLACK 2:25.870 (1st in G/H/I/J semi)
Race 68
RED 2:30.512 (7th in C/D/E/F semi)
Race 74
OPEN 2:20.041 (7th in B semi)
Race 79
WOMEN 2:39.215 (2nd E final)
Race 84
OPEN 2:203.637 (6th in B final)
Race 89
BLACK 2:21.584 (1st in G final)
Race 90
RED 2:35.496 (8th in F final)
After putting in our all, we enjoyed the beer garden, camaraderie, dancing and then lined up to receive our medals, which were by a formal presentation on the stage with photos. A huge thanks to teammate Steve Mason who stood in line for our medals as we enjoyed the beer garden!
Take a look at our Facebook photo album.
Our next race event will be at Harrison Lake!
