Dragonboat nationals

Oh yeah, i'm back home in malaysia =) Today's Dragonboat races was an emo one for me especially the mens finals. Every person in the boat was psycoed up to PULL their hardest and STRETCH FORWRD AH and PULL RIGHT BACK AH...haha...i was for sure =B... So nerve wercking i planted two kisses on my paddle shaft smack on the 'RUBBERducky' word. haha. yeah for those of you who don't know (which probably is everyone) i named my expensive db paddle that! Soon it was line up time and the organisers were PMSing BAD shouting at boats and warning them a 5 second penalty. The commands came and before i knew it it was ONEah TWOah THREEah FOURah until the first wistle for a hard ten came - silence. OH FREAK i could smell the finish line. I was close to falling off my seat five times then i had a flashback at the starting line - ep asked to counter his feet with mine if we find ourselves falling off. And so i did =) Every stroke was of ours was making the boat surge forward. Then came the three whistles for last burst. It was all over in a flash. Three months of hard training condensed into that few minutes of mind over body experience. It was all worth while!