My summer love

I love dragon boating. I do. I fell in love with the sport the first time I put a paddle in the water 3 years ago. uh two years. yes, this is my third year. Right. Ok but it feels like longer, I think because I feel like it's such a part of me that I've just been doing it forever.

I love it. Tonight was our first practice. My first on the water practice with my new team, the Paddle Demons. It was frickin cold tonight, practice was from 8-9pm @ Mooney's Bay. Getting into my car and driving to practice even felt good. I could do that drive with my eyes close (I won't, but i probably could).

I froze my ass of with half of my new team, and we starting dusting off the cobwebs and shaking the bits of rust of and greasin' up the ole muscles. Man I hurt. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT. Did I mention how much I love it? Ok I'll stop.

The calmness of the water. The power in my paddle. The synchronicity and rhythm of 22 paddlers hitting the water all at once thrusting the boat to glide across the water.

Damn being in the water felt good.

btw- It's official in case you didn't notice: SUMMER HAS BEGUN!!!!!!!!