Invites and Awards

This isn't a new thing, but the invites and awards are continuing.

Whenever you win, people start calling letting you know you have been nominated for different awards and TV camera's want to come out and film us. Don't get me wrong...this is all cool, but we have to make sure that we don't A) let it get to our heads & B) get in the way of our training.

We recently attended an awards banquet here in Victoria where we won the George Hellar Award for outstanding team of the year for PacificSport. It was a great gala with all the local press there. That banquet was easy since it was in Victoria. The next two that we have been invited to are in Vancouver and Winnipeg! Vancouver might not seem far, but we are on the island and need to take the ferry and since the last ferry runs at 9pm that means staying overnight.
What we have decided to do instead is send two people to Vancouver for the BC Sport Awards where we are up for Team of the Year and two different people to Winnipeg for the Canadian Sport Awards where we are up for Partners of the Year.

Next week we have a photo shoot on our Sunday off with a prominent Canadian Magazine where they are looking to do a big spread on us. I will tell you who later....once we know all the details about the shoot. Also next week we are currently scheduled to meet with comedian Rick Mercer and appear on the Mercer Report. This will be shown nationally and should give us some great press.

We were also invited by Cambridge Boat Club in England to race them prior to The Boat Race on the tideway...all expenses paid, but instead we are sending our second crew who should give them a run for their money.

So as you can see.....between awards, invites, tv shows and photo shoots, we have to keep our eyes on the prize in 6 months and not get too caught up in all the hype and miss what got us to this point which is training our butts off!!