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This time last year we were racing at Sherborne County Fair
Until we can get back out in the water to train and compete the team is staying fit with our series of challenges.

Our latest one involves
10,000 star jumps🤸‍♀️
10,000 press ups 🙃
10,000 sit ups
10,000 step ups 🥱
10,000 squats
10,000 baked bean/weight lifts🏋️‍♀️
10 x 10k kayak
10 x 10k run
10 x 10k cycle
10 x 10k paddle 🚴🏻‍♂️🚣‍♂️🏃‍♀️
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Our John o’Groats to Lands End challenge has finished, the cyclists have arrived 🚴🏻‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️ Thanks also to Janet Keeling from Pool of Life, Breast Cancer Survivors' Dragon Boat Team for contributing some miles on her exercise bike
New challenge starts soon ...
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Hooray, the walkers from our team have reached Lands End in our virtual challenge, 876 miles in 15 days
Cyclists are at 634 miles, not far to go now 🥾🚶‍♀️🐉🚴🏻‍♂️
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Another meet the paddler, this time it’s Maureen, who is also our members secretary, so if you’re new or thinking of joining us in the future then Maureen will help you get started
Read her paddling story
Q) how long have you been paddling?

I have been paddling for 5 years.

Q) what got you hooked on dragon boating ?

Being part of a great team who are supportive, kind and fun.
Q) what’s your favourite thing about it ?

Gliding along the river, sitting with different members on the boat and getting to know them more.

Q) what is your biggest achievement?

My most amazing day of awe and wonder was the Vogalonga 4 years ago.

Q) any advice for someone who is thinking of taking up the sport?

Come and along and give it a go - the majority of us aren’t water babies and have achieved much in so many different ways!
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Our virtual cycle and walk challenge continues towards Lands End .
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Look back to two years ago in Barcelona and finishing our evening training in the Olympic canal Barcelona an amazing experience 🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️
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An update on our virtual walk and cycle challenge from John o' Groats to Lands End, The walkers are slightly ahead now on 458 miles and the cyclists 403.
We are roughly around the half way mark.
Some of the team are doing both, others are just concentrating on one, either way its a team effort
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With no dragon boat racing or training taking place right now, here’s a chance took look back and reflect on all those events we have taken part in.

This is us at Bristol 3 years ago today 🐊🚣‍♀️🐊
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An update on our cycling / walking challenge from John O'Groats to Lands End. We have changed it a bit and are now going to count our cycling and walking miles separately, as two challenges.

Our walkers have done 307 miles and our cyclists 351
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A year has gone by since our brilliant 26 mile paddle into the night on the river Stour
Such a great event and a wonderful amount raised to help keep us afloat
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So our coach Wendy Grose let us catch our breath briefly after finishing our last walking challenge, but we're off again !! Because we have a lot of cyclist amongst our team, we are going to cycle ... John O'Groats to Land's End, a cool 874 miles. 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️ Some don't have a bike so they will carry on walking and 3/4 of the way through our walkers will walk from Christchurch to Lands End 172 miles to meet the cyclist at the finish line

Anyone else coming along for the ride ?
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So this latest walking challenge has finished
1345 miles covered by the team
We set out to visit the breast cancer survivors dragon boat teams in England, but we made good progress and had such a welcoming response that we carried onto Scotland and Port Edgar Dragons
Then we were persuaded to paddle across the Irish Sea to visit some of the teams based there, and what a welcome we got there !
We finished our walk today with the Nore Dragon Paddlers
Thank you to all of you who have followed our journey and commented on our posts along the way, it’s been a great thing to do as a team and it’s been lovely to interact with the other bcs teams as well as inspire others here and around the world to do their own virtual walks 🚶‍♀️🥾💗🐉 What will our coach Wendy Grose have in store for us next ? 🤔.......
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Our virtual team walk has taken us to Cork to see the @corkdragons , it’s great to catch up with them as a few of our team paddled with them at Donegal last August, and Mary from our team is from Cork 🐉🥾🚶‍♀️💗 This was to have been our last stop but we’ve realised that we by passed the Nore Dragon Paddlers at Kilkenny, and the sun is shining so we are going to go and see them and finish our virtual walk there 💗🐉🥾🚶‍♀️
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We’ve made it to Waterford in our virtual team walk, here we are with the @deisebuddies 💙🐉🥾🚶‍♀️
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A quick stop then onto @corkdragons 🖤❤️🖤
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We’ve arrived in Dublin on our virtual walking challenge , to catch up with the Plurabelle Paddlers , great to be here as we won’t be at their brilliant festival in September 💜🐉💜
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And we're off again, saying goodbye to the Donegal Dragons and on our way in our virtual walk to Dublin and The Plurabelle Paddlers
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We’ve made it to Donegal in our virtual walk, here we are with the fabulous @donegaldragons 💗🥾🚶‍♀️😀🐉
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After our virtual paddle across the Irish Sea 🌊 this morning with some of the Donegal Dragon team , we’ve continued our walk and we are with the Lagan Dragons ! 🐉🥾💗🚶‍♀️
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We’ve just paddles across the Irish Sea , virtually on zoom , but we did paddle !
Great to be joined by some of the Donegal Dragons 🐉
Now our walk continues, but maybe coffee and cake first ? 🥾🐉💗🚶‍♀️
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The team have walked to Cairnryan, were going to rest up tonight ready to paddle across the sea to Larne in the morning at 9am 🐉🥾💗🚶‍♀️
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Then our virtual walk will continue 😀
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#walk #lockdownchallenge #breastcancersurvivors #dragonboat

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