Getting our feet wet!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
So last weekend our school was involved in the cross bay swim challenge. This is sponsored by the rotary club of Pattaya and raises money towards a charity here. Jasmine signed up to participate as a swimmer. This involved a lengthy swim across the bay (gulf of Thailand). Basically, it costs so much to enter, and you raise this money by being sponsored, and that money goes to Charity. As you can see, many students and teachers were involved in this. All the swimmers got medals and t-shirts afterwards, plus a nice little lunch.
I too was involved. Initially I was going to be a swimmer too until one of my friends asked if I would help in Kayak support. I hadn't been on a kayak since grade ten, but I gave it a go. Basically, Kayak support stays alongside those swimmers who choose to do the 3.5 km swim and make sure they are okay. After the start, one of the thai officials assigned me to watch a certain participant, who happened to be the slowest guy there. At one point he was losing ground doing the breast stroke, so I was literally sitting still for about twenty minutes going nowhere. At this point, I decided to put my feet up and tan for a bit, and then proceeded to doze off. Falling asleep on a kayak sounds peaceful enough, unless you put too much weight to one side, which I did. I woke up to the wonderful feeling of ocean water as I flipped over. It was not great, but a lot of fun. Altogether that day, with the extra journey we went on, I kayaked about 12 km, which felt pretty good. Plus, I got a t-shirt out of it as well, so all was good. Jazzy and I have decided to enter an adventure race in early February next year, which would include running, swimming, biking and Kayaking.....so let the training begin.
Do you see the the guy in the blue kayak between the two boats. That's me!
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