::canadian national canoe and kayak championships::

My 14th Canadian Champs were one of Burloak's best ever, and I'm so incredibly proud of all my black-clad burloaker teammates.  We raced hard, raced happy, bounced back from any crummier races we had, encouraged eachother, laughed and cheered and sincerely had more fun than ever before.  War Canoes and C4's were a highlight, strong performances in Midget Canoe and Juvie girls were awesome to see, we had a 9 year old boy on the podium (Way to go Matt), a 47 year old Olympian on the podium (Larry, a few times!), and lots of strength in all age categories in between.  Our throwback-to-Oakville-Racing gear was an all round hit, I think Tessa has a future in fashion (or kayaking!!).  Senior Women's K4, AHEM!  Mark O coxed some awesome War Canoes, and paddled his canoe pretty well too.  Senior War Canoe was so hard I couldn't believe it.  Brady lead our K4 from the back, Mehak stroked like a veteran, Pellini showed us he's still the teamboat man, K2 rocked.  Way to go boys!

I think we need a trophy case in the bigroom at Burloak!

I'm so fortunate to be a member at such a stellar club.  Not just because we perform well, but because it's always fun.  It's a tough trek home straight from Worlds the day after, but as soon as I arrive and see our whole club putting all the hard creek work to task, I quickly realize that it's the only place in the world that I want to be that week.

Thanks to everyone from every club (especially Wascana) for making this CCA's an awesome one, thanks to CKC for puttin' on a good show, and most of all... Go Burloak Go!

See you on the creek.