Sunday, September 04, 2005
Oh my, we actually won something legitimately!
So today was the wrap of the Vic Kayaking Champs, and St L's did pretty damn well considering that we suck. We ended up winning nothing indevidually, possibly losing every event that we entered... except mine... technically (mind you, technically I also missed the 9th gate on my second run, so there isn't much to be said there. stupid rulebook.)
So we walked away with a bronze medal, by me - that was growing mold. And the *drum role* championship trophy for the best small school. GO US! we actually beat people to win this one. so I'm quite proud of the team. Well, when I say we beat "people" - I mean a sole 13 year old boy from mordialloc secondary college. But still, he had a 100% bronze medal rate for everything he entered, and we had a 100% lose rate, so I'm not sure what happened there, but it's all OK as the St Leonards College Kayaking team now has a trophy to put up in the Hawkes Sports Centre trophy cabinet. GO US!
In other news. Warwick Draper (I almost wrote Capper then, but restrained) - the olympian dude remembered me, AND my name!!! THat means he knows who I am!!! YEY!!! and now Angus can vouch for me in his good-looking-ness. As I introduced Wazza to Gus. That conversation was excitement and a half, let me tell you!
And before the ceremony, the St L's team, minus me (as I have the coordination of my printers ink jet cartridge) started to play their bi-annual game of hackey sack, when none other than Waz the Olympian joined in, then afterwards Alex goes to me, "so who was that random man that started playing hackey sack with us?" and then I told him, and he was very impressed, not only is Wazza good at kayaking, but he is also mighty talented with his sacks.
So that was the day, I would bore you all with the details of my runs, but I won't. No actually I will as I need to document it as this blog has overridden my diary, which was its original intention, except people started reading it and commenting.
So anyway, my first solo run was pretty poor, I missed gate 9, I was going to go back for it, but I was paddling full steam and I just wasn't going to make it through the water. Like yesterday, the river was rushing down at probably the fastest I've ever seen it around this time of year, the course was almost washed out, and they were going to move it downstream to another harder rapid, but I think there were too many snags blocking all the good lines, so it was back to the usual place. So my first run was good, I got about 188 seconds, which is pretty poor considering. But there was no way I was going to beat the other girls, they had both been to state training squads together and even though they were from different schools, they were both really close, as friends and their times. They were both around the 150-160 mark. So I was way off. The Stephanie girl is getting much better, I used to beat her in the day, and last year I was 3 seconds off her time, so I guess she actually trains, rather than just flailing about a 25m pool for a couple of sessions before the comp. And the girl that I did beat last year, cained both Steph and I. But she was a tank.
In other news, I had a hot date tonight, that went well, but I'm not actually going to write about that. And I didn't end up seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory either. So maybe the date didn't go as well as planned, as any date with Johnny Depp is a good date.
Anyway, must be off. I've had a big morning/day/night.
- Em xoxo
|| UPDATE THING || - well, I also forgot to mention that it is fathers day. so ummm... happy fathers day all dads out there.
Amd wait... i forgot something else... but i can't remember what, im typing aimlessly trying to remember what it was. OH YEAH!
THERE WERE NO DAMN SPOT PRIZES!!! I thought we were bound to clean up this year in the spot prizes, but alas there were non. or otherwise they did them after St L's left, as we are the champions of spot prizes. Oh well, theres always next year. Well... sadly not for me.
