Montreal DragonFly

Based on our race result in Montreal Dragonboat Festival 2008, I realize the following:

Our best 500m so far is 2:17.16

There are 12 teams having 2:17.xx and 10 teams having 2:16.xx

Imagine we can cut 1 and only 1 second meaning 2:16.16, we could jump from rank 86 to 74 out of 120

Our best 250m so far is 1:06.15.

There are 20 teams having 1:06.xx and 26 teams having 1:05.xx.

Imagine if we can cut 1 and only 1 second meaning 1:05:15, we could jump from rank 75 to 54 out of 120

I am glad that we start approaching to the competitive cloud. I will not be too ambitious, let’s work on this 1 second for the coming races this year

Our Attendance sheet has successfully migrated to Dragonfly web site. Just use the usual URL and replace “mud-q.com” to “montrealdragonfly.org” (I am not going to post the full URL here).

Regular attendance update email is still happening and I will post the full URL in the email.

Dragonflyers, go check your status and keep up your attendance!

Also our original web address http://www.montreal-dragonfly.ca/ is now forwarded to http://montrealdragonfly.org main site

Here you are, paddling in all your glory. Starting with the right side…

… followed by the left side…

I get a lot of questions regarding how we practice during the winter.  I usually start with an elaborate story involving footage of sea lions and hour-long submersions in ice water before getting to the truth.  However, I find that it’s much easier to show people how we practice in the winter.

This week Winston will not be able to coach us he’ll be in China this w/e. Kelly Anne Stuart who came 2 weeks ago will be subbing for Winston. Everybody please arrive for 11:00AM dressed to jog outside with proper running shoes. Everybody should come for the jog especially if you are not running during the week. If you really can not jog outside then you must be doing 100 burpies indoors. This is the only way for you to be able to train and be ready for our 10km marathon.

We have the gym room from 1-2PM. Please remember to bring an extra dry shirt, shorts/pants, running shoes and TOWEL(be hygenic). George will later send out which stations and which groups will be for this Sunday. Remember at the end of the training everybody must ALL stretch at the usual warm up area.

PLEASE BRING A NOTEPAD TO HELP RECORD YOUR PROGRESS.

Attendance

You can see your attendance results here. As you can see we will have 15 people at this weeks practice.  If anybody can not make it we will have to cancel the practice.  If you are sick just showing up is good enough.  You don’t need to paddle if you are not feeling well.  But your presence is important.

1. Victoria
2. Kevin
3. Brian
4. Jerry
5. Ramy
6. George
7. Hanting
8. Erik
9. David
10. Patrick
11. Bektas
12. Caroline
13. MG
14. Lilyann
15. Karnon.

If there’s any discrepancy please contact Kevin ASAP.  There will be no practice next Sunday Feb. 24th. It’s our annual DragonFly ski trip=).