Blackberry Glaze Pie (with a baked pie shell)
1 cup blackberry juice
3/4c. Sugar
3 tbsp. Corn starch
Pinch of salt
2 cups or more of blackberries
To Make Juice:
Take 1 cup of berries, crush and add water to measure 1 cup.
Simmer 3 minutes.
Strain and add water if necessary to make 1 cup juice.
Cook juice, corn starch, sugar and salt over direct heat stirring constantly until thick.
Cool slightly.
Wash berries and arrange in a baked pie shell.
Coat with glaze.
Chillw 2 or 3 hours in refrigerator.
Serve topped with whipped cream if desired (duh)
Exercise | Fun | Friendship | "Me" Time | Nature | Competition | Women's Recreational Dragonboat Team
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Thursday, August 11, 2005
A Taste of Inspiration
This is a selection of Inspiring Quotes gathered by Shelly for the team. As is her practice, Shelly gives us a quote every time we train together and every time we race together. Sometime, the quote she gives us before a race wins the mental game for us as we are racing.
Early in the season:
If you’re willing to declare, “I am an athlete”, even for a little while… your relationship with your body will change. Perhaps your posture will be the first transformation. Then your expectations. When think of yourself as an athlete, it might begin to seem perfectly normal-imperative, even to devote time each day to physical fitness… you’ll begin to feel competent to join a yoga class or bowling league or neighborhood Ping-Pong game-even if you don’t win, even if you weigh more than you should, even if you’re too embarrassed to say, “I am and athlete” out loud.
Cultus Lake Regatta:
Ask yourself, can I give more? The answer is usually Yes.
-Paul Tergat, legendary Kenyan distance runner
Nanaimo Regatta - with her squirt gun aimed at us:
Your mind quits long before your body does. If someone pulled out a .357 magnum and said, “Do it!” you’d find a way. Your mind might say no, but I guarantee you can go on.
Robert Link member of the first American team to summit the north face of 28,169 foot Kanchdnjunga in Nepal
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. - Eric Lindros
One thing about racing is that it hurts. You better accept that from the beginning or you're not going anywhere. -Bob Kennedy, US Olympian
We didn’t all come over in the same ship, but here we are in the same boat. - Unknown
Early in the season:
If you’re willing to declare, “I am an athlete”, even for a little while… your relationship with your body will change. Perhaps your posture will be the first transformation. Then your expectations. When think of yourself as an athlete, it might begin to seem perfectly normal-imperative, even to devote time each day to physical fitness… you’ll begin to feel competent to join a yoga class or bowling league or neighborhood Ping-Pong game-even if you don’t win, even if you weigh more than you should, even if you’re too embarrassed to say, “I am and athlete” out loud.
Cultus Lake Regatta:
Ask yourself, can I give more? The answer is usually Yes.
-Paul Tergat, legendary Kenyan distance runner
Nanaimo Regatta - with her squirt gun aimed at us:
Your mind quits long before your body does. If someone pulled out a .357 magnum and said, “Do it!” you’d find a way. Your mind might say no, but I guarantee you can go on.
Robert Link member of the first American team to summit the north face of 28,169 foot Kanchdnjunga in Nepal
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. - Eric Lindros
One thing about racing is that it hurts. You better accept that from the beginning or you're not going anywhere. -Bob Kennedy, US Olympian
We didn’t all come over in the same ship, but here we are in the same boat. - Unknown
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Good Race... Hold the Boat
Because we can.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
How we hear Coach Shelly
"If I held a gun to your head, you could find a way to give more."
"blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, let it ride."
"Live STRONG! Live STRONG! Live STRONG!"
"20%"
"Moo-lah-bunda"
"You can do this"
Sunday, August 07, 2005
I invited Oprah to join us
Show Idea:
Dragon Boat Racing: Oprah joins the WaterWarriors for a practice and a Regatta
I am a member of the WaterWarriors all-women's dragonboat racing team: http://www.waterwarriors.ca
We are a team of ordinary women who have been paddling together for five years, although many of us are new to the team this year. This competitive, Asian sport is one of the fastest growing sports in North America and has been embraced by men and women who are looking for competition and comradarie.
Dragonboat racing is just so much fun, Oprah - you have to try it! There are 20 women in the boat working together - 18 paddlers, a drummer and a steers(wo)man - in one fluid movement racing through the water.
Our team ranges in age from late 20's to early-60's - although I'm sure Val and Karalee act more like mid-20's than early 60's.
The WaterWarriors began when two women, Cheryl and Ida decided to bring a community of women together for strength and friendship. Since that time, both the coach and steers(wo)man have lost their husbands in tragic accidents.
The Waterwarriors have proved to be their strength and the sport is a healthy escape for all of us from the hard pieces of our lives. Shelly, our coach whose world-class kayaking husband drowned that first year - is one of the most encouraging women I've ever known. She inspires us all to more than we ever knew we could be - and she's really funny while she does it!
This is my first year with the team and I can't seem to get enough of it! The stress of starting a business, parenting 4 children and keeping my home running is exhausting. This was on the heels of my husband's depression and unemployment. I was overwhelmed.
I was invited to join the Waterwarriors and have found it to be a safe place to be myself with other real women who are fast becoming really great friends. Every one of us has a story of why we Dragonboat.
Dragonboat Teams for Breast Cancer survivors began in Vancouver, BC with "Abreast in a Boat". Their story is here:
http://www.abreastinaboat.com
The women on the Breast Cancer Survivor teams are all survivors of breast cancer. At every Regatta, there is a Carnation ceremony where we honor the Breast Cancer Survivors and tribute those who did not survive the battle while raising funds for Cancer Research. This ceremony is unbelieveably emotional as most everyone at the Regatta has been touched in some way by Breast Cancer.
After the ceremony, teams like ours (not survivors) make an archway with our paddles under which the Breast Cancer survivors walk as we honor them in their battle. I wasn't expecting to be so emotional as I was at my first Carnation Ceremony, but it put so many faces on Breast Cancer. I couldn't stop crying - and the empathy extended to the survivors was palpable.
We would love for you to join our team to practice and to compete in a Regatta with us. We'd love to introduce other men and women (Breast Cancer survivors and others) in North America to an Asian sport that is so much more than paddling.
Please come out to beautiful Cultus Lake, BC, Canada to join the Waterwarriors as we practice on our Dragonboat and join us for a Regatta one day. When you meet the WaterWarriors, you'll meet a very extraordinary group of ordinary women.
ps: bring along lucky red licorice Twizzlers - we can't compete without them
Dragon Boat Racing: Oprah joins the WaterWarriors for a practice and a Regatta
I am a member of the WaterWarriors all-women's dragonboat racing team: http://www.waterwarriors.ca
We are a team of ordinary women who have been paddling together for five years, although many of us are new to the team this year. This competitive, Asian sport is one of the fastest growing sports in North America and has been embraced by men and women who are looking for competition and comradarie.
Dragonboat racing is just so much fun, Oprah - you have to try it! There are 20 women in the boat working together - 18 paddlers, a drummer and a steers(wo)man - in one fluid movement racing through the water.
Our team ranges in age from late 20's to early-60's - although I'm sure Val and Karalee act more like mid-20's than early 60's.
The WaterWarriors began when two women, Cheryl and Ida decided to bring a community of women together for strength and friendship. Since that time, both the coach and steers(wo)man have lost their husbands in tragic accidents.
The Waterwarriors have proved to be their strength and the sport is a healthy escape for all of us from the hard pieces of our lives. Shelly, our coach whose world-class kayaking husband drowned that first year - is one of the most encouraging women I've ever known. She inspires us all to more than we ever knew we could be - and she's really funny while she does it!
This is my first year with the team and I can't seem to get enough of it! The stress of starting a business, parenting 4 children and keeping my home running is exhausting. This was on the heels of my husband's depression and unemployment. I was overwhelmed.
I was invited to join the Waterwarriors and have found it to be a safe place to be myself with other real women who are fast becoming really great friends. Every one of us has a story of why we Dragonboat.
Dragonboat Teams for Breast Cancer survivors began in Vancouver, BC with "Abreast in a Boat". Their story is here:
http://www.abreastinaboat.com
The women on the Breast Cancer Survivor teams are all survivors of breast cancer. At every Regatta, there is a Carnation ceremony where we honor the Breast Cancer Survivors and tribute those who did not survive the battle while raising funds for Cancer Research. This ceremony is unbelieveably emotional as most everyone at the Regatta has been touched in some way by Breast Cancer.
After the ceremony, teams like ours (not survivors) make an archway with our paddles under which the Breast Cancer survivors walk as we honor them in their battle. I wasn't expecting to be so emotional as I was at my first Carnation Ceremony, but it put so many faces on Breast Cancer. I couldn't stop crying - and the empathy extended to the survivors was palpable.
We would love for you to join our team to practice and to compete in a Regatta with us. We'd love to introduce other men and women (Breast Cancer survivors and others) in North America to an Asian sport that is so much more than paddling.
Please come out to beautiful Cultus Lake, BC, Canada to join the Waterwarriors as we practice on our Dragonboat and join us for a Regatta one day. When you meet the WaterWarriors, you'll meet a very extraordinary group of ordinary women.
ps: bring along lucky red licorice Twizzlers - we can't compete without them
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