Stroke, Stroke, Stroke

I joined a Dragon Boat team this week. Most of the members work for the same organization as I do, though I don’t know many of them, while a few are outsiders.

We had our first meeting, and it looks like it will be challenging and fun, but even more interesting, is the group dynamic.

Most of the team are returning members from last year. Only three of us are new. And it doesn’t take long to see who likes who, and who hates who, and who resents who, and who thinks who is lazy and doesn’t work hard enough.

In other words, a soap opera.

We need a minimum of 8 men to enter competition in “mixed-boat” category, but right now we only have 6. So our Captain is on a recruiting drive to find 2 or 3 virile manly men for our boat. Good luck I say to her.

We don’t start practices until May, but we are expected to be doing some strength training on our own over the next few weeks. I’m on it! 1,2,1,2,1,2. Rest, repeat.