row row row your boat

Just returned home from the Lotus Festival and would like to report that the Blogging.LA team posted a time of 8:17 in the Dragon Boat Races. We tried as hard as we could to replicate our winning time last year of 7:09 and for a while it looked like we’d accomplish our goal. We started out strong but experienced some trouble halfway through the course, once back on track we continued and had our eye squarely on the prize though the last leg of the race proved to be the hardest.

Originally we were scheduled to race at 1:15 but were bumped up to the 1:00 slot due to a missing team and ended up racing against APAIT. They started off wobbly but quickly figured things out and definitely gave us a run for the money. But the real team to beat was KTLA-CW...the only other team in the “media” category. They raced at 2pm and I decided to stick around to see the final result. It wasn’t pretty but they beat us handily with a time of 6:59. They must have been putting in some serious training in the off-season to post those kind of numbers.

The real rockstars of the lake are Eric Garcetti’s team who posted a time of 6:17 which is truly an amazing feat, at least in this sense of the boating world.

Never fear, Team MetroBlogging.LA will be back next year to reclaim our title. Jillian has a plan already to get us in tip-top rowing shape and we studied the optimal seating set-up afterwards with the faster teams....we have a few other plans up our sleeves but those are very secret.

[our 2nd place trophy]

A few pictures can be found here with more coming as they row in....I mean roll in.

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Comments

[Don Garza]

Didn't make it out to take pictures, sorry guys. Maybe next year.

Congratulations though on all your hard work

[Angel E.]

Hey Shannon!
Congratulations! I'm sorry I was not able to get out there and root for the team. Will try next year!

[spanish course]

i love dragon boat racing! I'm glad that they are enthusiasts out there.