Well, I'm willing to chalk it up to freshman jitters, because we were paddling hard.
I joined the blogging.la boat in Saturday's Lotus Festival Dragon Boat races and while we didn't kick CD 13's keister, we turned in a pretty respectable time for an octet of dragon-boat n00bs. (Still wondering where the official times are. Anyone?)
Our 7:09 wasn't enough to beat the trash-talkin' CD 13's 6:48 - well-stoked though we were by a fine Brite Spot breakfast and our galley-master's rousing cadence chant of "POST! POST! POST! BLOG!," etc ...
Meantime, Don Garza has a host of photos, including a few of us.
I'm the fool amidships in the hat, accompanied by able crewmates including coxswain Jillian and other able oarsfolk including my wife, Kristina, and blogging.la's David Markland and Heathervescent.
Next time we'll have our turn kung-fu down and just smoke the Garcetti squad's time.
Clif Bars, indeed.
Posted by: Mack_Reed on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 11:25 PM
