Truly an amazing day - we are walking to the race site together, wearing our matching practice jerseys, and along the way we go through a part of the waterway where they have been having a dragon boat festival all weekend with rec teams competing. All of a sudden, we hear people shouting "Team USA". "You go!" and lots of stuff like that and then it swells into a chant of "U-S-A. U-S-A" that follows us all the way to the race site and ends with people wildly clapping and whooping. It was INCREDIBLE! We are smiling at first, then sort of looking at each other in disbelief, then we all walk a little slower and tougher, like, yeah we're here to BRING IT. When it's over, we are just speechless - just amazed at the pounding support, being the recipient of that crowd PRIDE. Never felt anything like it. Will never forget it.
We will not let them down.
Wasabi Paddling Club is a competitive dragon boat and outrigger canoe paddling club with locations in Portland and Nehalem Bay, Oregon.
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