Location: Kumihama (久美浜）

Date: August 5,2007

Award(s): 7 melons and 3rd Place

Members:

    The members for this competition was already decided a month before the actual event. I was not actually one of them yet.  But since I went to the Notogawa Competition, I got tagged along which makes me very excited.. yehey another adventure.

Rendezvous:

    We have to reach the location by 8am, so it was decided that we will stay at Tama-san’s place except for the Captain and the steerer. We left by 5am in the morning.

The Competition:

    What so special about this competition is that the Super Dolphin team is on it. They made 3 separate teams to join the competition. I think everybody was excited to test the teams skill.  I was not on the first race ( good thing though , i was not actually feeling well that day ).  We ended up 2nd, and the good part was it was really really a close race. Not miles apart from the other team unlike the previous races we had. Everybody was so giddy and happy. After the Elimination round, the team was able to make it to the Semi-final round, I think we ended up 3rd  in the over all tally.

The semi-final or the 2nd race was around 2pm. It was so hot, but i fell a little bit cold. My headache was actually blurring my vision already, but i so want to be part of the race that I just ignore it , luckily nothing bad happened to me just lack  of stamina though. By the time of the 2nd race, I think the tide just came in so the water was not so clear, lots of wave.  We went out of the course during the race, Lisa hit the buoy and  almost stumble over, luckily she was alright and was able to get back immediately. We ended up 3rd on that race,  and as soon as we arrived at the platform, our steerer started to cry blaming herself and then mika-san started crying too. Me?? i felt like shouting and hitting someone to vent out my frustration and disappointment at my performance.  Everybody was so down and disappointed.

After the short meeting, Tama-san went back to our tent to start packing the things. I followed her to help, Lisa and Bachiko went to check the final result and guess whattttt.. We made it to the FINALLLSSSSS….

We ended up 3rd in the overall result… and we received 7 melons too..

Congratulations everyone…

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