Have just been sent this link by a friens in the USA - paddlersforlife.co.uk/index.htm
Quote from the website:
Paddlers for Life is a registered charity. Our aims and objectives are to improve the health and wellbeing of cancer survivors, particularly Breast Cancer, through the invigorating sport of Dragon Boating. We are based at the Low Wood Hotel on the banks of beautiful Windermere.
We encourage you to have a go in our boat, the emphasis will be on pleasure, camaraderie, sharing experiences and friendships.
So any if any of us live in the NW - I do - give them a visit!
Kharga
PS I paddle a 15ft open canoe usually.
Also sent this link:
The ‘Pool of life’ is the first dragon boat racing team for breast cancer survivors in the UK. The team was set up in the North West, to help raise breast cancer awareness and demonstrate that women living with breast cancer can lead full active lives.
There is a lot of clear medical evidence of the benefits gained by those who join this program. The aim of the program in 2006 was to raise the team’s profile so encouraging the establishment of more teams nationally, enabling us to have our own dragon boat, which led to the team competing in the first dragon boat World Championships for breast cancer survivors representing the UK in Singapore in September 2006. The team of 16 ladies won 1 silver and 3 bronze medals in a 2 day event competing against 17 teams from 11 different countries.
pooloflife.net/index.asp
I don’t want to do dragon boating for cancer ‘survivors’. I want a free luxury spa holiday.
See my post under Odyssey holidays.
Jane
Haven’t visited for a while…laughed out loud when I put in “dragon boat” in the search and it came up with this! I belong to the Paddlers for Life crew on Windermere! I was thinking of putting up an invitation somewhere on the BCC forums…anyone out there visiting the Lake District on their holidays??? Come along and meet some like minded people having a ball. Our boats go out on the water every Sunday around 11.00 -ish. It’s FAB!!! Very, very alternatively therapeutic. No previous experience necessary. Also, just out of interest, we are taking part in some national research to ACTUALLY find out the effects of upper body repetative exercise [paddling] on lymphoedema. There is little / no evidence base for the advice we currently receive which really is the icing on the cake once treatment is finished. Anyone lucky enough to live closer in the Cumbria / Lancashire area, you will be made very welcome if you just come along. Post a message on the Paddlers website, if you would like to be contacted…Cheers x