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[BernMan]

And I must say they look dam good in orange.

Are we talking about the same Pacific Reach? Did you say orange? I could have sworn they had black shirts on? Unless I am now color blind too? I know things start to go on a man after he reaches a certain age but I always denied that! LOL

PR did a fantastic job. Having been a member of theirs for 3 years makes me proud of their accomplishments. I never went public with my predictions but I was hoping for an upset which was not meant to be. But I did have them as favs for masters and definitely 50-50 for the premier because when they really want something they go for it! I know!

Cheers and CONGRATS  to Pacific Reach!

As for Roli and FCRCC sticking to themselves I think it may have something to do with the fact that nobody from Alberta offered to meet us or befriend us. I mean I never saw anyone come by our tent to say hello or welcome. It helps though that PR met some of the Calgary teams only 2 or 3 weeks earlier in Vernon which is always a bonus. Its easy to meet other teams in a "fun" event but in an event such as the Regionals most of us are there to do it right and focus on winning.

[caper]

Hey BernMan, I don't know (or want to know!) about your other age-related disabilities, but eyesight isn't one of them.  

Magicpaddler is talking about the shirt exchange with PR (and a few FCRCC) paddlers and the Magic Dragons.  We wear orange, but it seems like half our team now has PR shirts.

[magicpaddler]

I think about 1/2 of them now have nice orange race jerseys.  We on the other hand have nice black jerseys.  I think it will scare the Edmonton teams in 1.5 weeks when we show up wearing PR jerseys cus we don't have any more of our own.

I know people on both ROLI and FCRCC.  They were good and interacted well, but the teams as a whole were less social, but then as you say they were there for a purpose, and in that situation I may have done the same.  Also with the rep that FCRCC has I think that many of the Cgy teams were a bit intimidated.

[BernMan]

Hey BernMan, I don't know (or want to know!) about your other age-related disabilities, but eyesight isn't one of them.  

Magicpaddler is talking about the shirt exchange with PR (and a few FCRCC) paddlers and the Magic Dragons.  We wear orange, but it seems like half our team now has PR shirts.

Well d'uhh is me then!  

I never even thought of shirt swapping. Back in the '90's I did a lot of that but that was because we all had cheap cotton t's as shirts. Now we use expensive non-cotton type shirts and swapping is almost a thing of the past!

Now I understand! I do appologize then because I agree they would look good in any shirt color. Mind you the black nice tight ones are definite eye candy too!

[paddleboy]

Yeah...magic ....you guys are way too funny. I noticed one of you ended up wearing one of our guys girlfriends shirt (not a PR shirt) in the end. How did you pull that one off..........I think we got a picture of it

 I guess there will always be trash talkers in any race but who cares ,it was a good racing weekend and I have respect for all the teams involved as we all worked hard

[magicpaddler]

Hey paddleboy you wouldn't know who "Kidnapped" the beer cup would you.   Apparently it went missing on Sunday and is on a "vacation".

FYI

The beer cup is the trophy given out to the winner of the 250m sprint (200m this year). it goes along with a keg of beer for the winnng team.  We won it again (52sec) and somebody "kidnapped" the cup on Sunday, and is now sending us pix of it in various places.

[DukeRaven]

somebody "kidnapped" the cup on Sunday, and is now sending us pix of it in various places.

The Garden Gnome did it

[paddleboy]

Sorry never saw it .............but then again I was pretty cut by that point and didn't see alot .

  I do think its funny though ................

 I'm sure it will return just like the vernon cup

[beedub]

Sorry never saw it .............but then again I was pretty cut by that point and didn't see alot .

  I do think its funny though ................

 I'm sure it will return just like the vernon cup

    haha...funny...

[seaboy]

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PR gave up in the 500m final (quite obvious) which was sad to see since they did win the qualifier but it was the thing to do since they screwed themselves in the 250m by not finishing.   Was great seeing 3 teams competing, clearly FCRCC and PR were the favorites but it was nice to see other teams step up and take a shot.  
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PR posted a 1:55 in that race, I think the second fastest time of the weekend, not too bad for a team that quit half way through. I think it was PR's best effort, but in the end FCRCC finally gelled and had their best race of the weekend.

[QNFFT6]

I think about 1/2 of them now have nice orange race jerseys.  We on the other hand have nice black jerseys.  I think it will scare the Edmonton teams in 1.5 weeks when we show up wearing PR jerseys cus we don't have any more of our own.

I wonder what those A retentive types would do if we all traded jerseys between heats, rather than at the end of the event?  Might give the roster police some additional challenges in Edmonton.  And of course fuel for the flames for our Calgary fans (pun intended).

http://image.mypicgallery.com/2005CalgaryDB/shirt-swap--one-of-these-is-not-like-the-others_large.jpg