Well, poop.
Jul. 27th, 2008 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42Today we had the dragon boat finals. The actual racing went well, just not quite well enough. We had lots of energy and lots of endurance. We are definitely getting better. However, both our results were just outside of the medal zone... in the corporate final we needed to finish third, but finished fourth; and in the mixed consolation race, we needed to finish first, but finished second.
Unfortunately there was a bit of a mix-up, and Alex (our coach) told us that the fourth place in corporate was enough to get us a medal. So we got to stay a few extra hours, and stand around in crowds and chaos for 45 minutes, and I got to fight my way through the crowd for when they called our name... only they never called it! I had to talk to 3 or 4 people to find out what was going on. I was most put out. I'm also upset for the team - our hopes were raised, for nothing.
Luckily I'm about to have a few weeks' break from both dragon boating and the team. I think I'm going to need it.
Unfortunately there was a bit of a mix-up, and Alex (our coach) told us that the fourth place in corporate was enough to get us a medal. So we got to stay a few extra hours, and stand around in crowds and chaos for 45 minutes, and I got to fight my way through the crowd for when they called our name... only they never called it! I had to talk to 3 or 4 people to find out what was going on. I was most put out. I'm also upset for the team - our hopes were raised, for nothing.
Luckily I'm about to have a few weeks' break from both dragon boating and the team. I think I'm going to need it.
