How is it already July? How is it already one full year since we were in Italy & Hungary?!? The hands of that clock just keep ticking as we, the members of Rowbust, keep moving forward!
Each year we welcome new members to our club and to our many crews – members who breathe new life in to the organization! We regenerate year after year so that we can continue to grow and change in order to take on new challenges!
This year’s challenge – to plan and host our 20th Anniversary! In June we hosted our Fanshawe Dragon Boat Festival over two days. Saturday for the Community teams and Sunday for all Breast Cancer Survivor teams! The weekend included a Gala Dinner to celebrate 20 years of Rowbust where we connected with old friends and enjoyed wonderful speeches & presentations about our team from our humble beginnings, our growing list of accomplishments and our very bright future! It was truly an awe inspiring weekend!
All the while, during the planning of this event, we were training in the gym, training on the water, training our brains, managing the club duties, hosting another successful Spring Golf Tournament, competing at other festivals to qualify for Nationals, working our regular jobs, spending time with family & friends and finding the time to get the necessary rest and nutrition to be at our best for all of it. Nothing short of hard work gets all of this done. And the members of Rowbust are no strangers to hard work. It’s all about team work!
We started our competition season at one of our favourite festivals – May 26th at Heart Lake in Brampton hosted by the True North Women’s crews out of Toronto. It is at this festival that our brand new members get their first taste of racing. As usual, it was a great day! The weather was perfect, the water was perfect and the venue was perfect! Two Rowbust crews competed and both won top spot in their respective divisions! How’s that for “getting a taste”!
After hosting our 20th Anniversary event on June 8 & 9 we were training hard for our next event in Hamilton on July 6th. This event always has it’s challenges - insufficient washroom facilities and the supplies needed in there, the boats were not what we’re used to, the weather was absolutely ridiculous and caused serious delays in the schedule – oh, and the driver who “misread his GPS” and landed in the water! (You can’t make this stuff up, it happened!) All in all the racing was good and the results even better with Rowbust bringing home more hardware!
Fast forward to the present – on Wednesday July 17th we board the plane and fly off to Regina, Saskatchewan to complete in the Canadian National Dragon Boat Club Crew Championships! This year is Rowbust’s 10th trip to Nationals and we’re just as excited as we were for the first time! This year brings more competition, more BCS teams are coming out to play, more than have ever come to compete at Nationals since the BCS division was created in 2010! As usual we’ve been working hard to improve our performance so that we are ready for the competition that awaits us!
We’ll arrive in Regina late in the evening (10:43pm Regina time/12:43am at home) and head straight to our hotel to catch some zzz’s so that we are rested for our practice session that is scheduled for Thursday morning at race site on Wascana Lake in the heart of Regina!
The race schedule for Nationals is now published and can be found at: https://www.dragonboat.ca/canadian-championships
Rowbust race schedule - in local Regina time
Friday, July 19, 2019
Race # 57 @ 3:48pm – 200m heat
Race #66 @ 5:00pm – 200m final
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Race #144 @ 9:39am – 500m heat
Race #161 @ 12:12pm – 500m final
Race #173 @ 2:50pm – 2000m
Thanks for following along! We’ll keep you posted!
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Blog contributor - Suzanne Newington (aka Newton) - joined 2011
Each year we welcome new members to our club and to our many crews – members who breathe new life in to the organization! We regenerate year after year so that we can continue to grow and change in order to take on new challenges!
This year’s challenge – to plan and host our 20th Anniversary! In June we hosted our Fanshawe Dragon Boat Festival over two days. Saturday for the Community teams and Sunday for all Breast Cancer Survivor teams! The weekend included a Gala Dinner to celebrate 20 years of Rowbust where we connected with old friends and enjoyed wonderful speeches & presentations about our team from our humble beginnings, our growing list of accomplishments and our very bright future! It was truly an awe inspiring weekend!
All the while, during the planning of this event, we were training in the gym, training on the water, training our brains, managing the club duties, hosting another successful Spring Golf Tournament, competing at other festivals to qualify for Nationals, working our regular jobs, spending time with family & friends and finding the time to get the necessary rest and nutrition to be at our best for all of it. Nothing short of hard work gets all of this done. And the members of Rowbust are no strangers to hard work. It’s all about team work!
We started our competition season at one of our favourite festivals – May 26th at Heart Lake in Brampton hosted by the True North Women’s crews out of Toronto. It is at this festival that our brand new members get their first taste of racing. As usual, it was a great day! The weather was perfect, the water was perfect and the venue was perfect! Two Rowbust crews competed and both won top spot in their respective divisions! How’s that for “getting a taste”!
After hosting our 20th Anniversary event on June 8 & 9 we were training hard for our next event in Hamilton on July 6th. This event always has it’s challenges - insufficient washroom facilities and the supplies needed in there, the boats were not what we’re used to, the weather was absolutely ridiculous and caused serious delays in the schedule – oh, and the driver who “misread his GPS” and landed in the water! (You can’t make this stuff up, it happened!) All in all the racing was good and the results even better with Rowbust bringing home more hardware!
Fast forward to the present – on Wednesday July 17th we board the plane and fly off to Regina, Saskatchewan to complete in the Canadian National Dragon Boat Club Crew Championships! This year is Rowbust’s 10th trip to Nationals and we’re just as excited as we were for the first time! This year brings more competition, more BCS teams are coming out to play, more than have ever come to compete at Nationals since the BCS division was created in 2010! As usual we’ve been working hard to improve our performance so that we are ready for the competition that awaits us!
We’ll arrive in Regina late in the evening (10:43pm Regina time/12:43am at home) and head straight to our hotel to catch some zzz’s so that we are rested for our practice session that is scheduled for Thursday morning at race site on Wascana Lake in the heart of Regina!
The race schedule for Nationals is now published and can be found at: https://www.dragonboat.ca/canadian-championships
Rowbust race schedule - in local Regina time
Friday, July 19, 2019
Race # 57 @ 3:48pm – 200m heat
Race #66 @ 5:00pm – 200m final
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Race #144 @ 9:39am – 500m heat
Race #161 @ 12:12pm – 500m final
Race #173 @ 2:50pm – 2000m
Thanks for following along! We’ll keep you posted!
You can follow us on:
- Facebook ~ @rowbust
- Instagram ~ @rowbustbcs
Blog contributor - Suzanne Newington (aka Newton) - joined 2011