For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a huge summer event where teams dress up in crazy costumes and race boats on Lake Champlain as a way to fund raise for cancer efforts.

Despite the gloomy weather forecast, thousands of dedicated spectators showed up bright and early to the event. The 75 teams made up of businesses, families, and organizations throughout the community came ready to race their hearts out. Even as the storm clouds came through, the racers pushed on with energy and excitement up until the festival was inevitably cut short. More details about the festival can be found at http://www.ridethedragon.org/.

This year, Vtrim sponsored the athletes village, the area where each team could set up a tent and use a staging area, stretching space, and where other sponsors set up shop. As a sponsor, we were also featured on all of the pendants throughout the village.

Let us just say that in a nutshell, the energy and excitement that was in the air that Sunday was inspiring!  It was truly amazing to see so many people supporting cancer survivors, cancer research and most of all Camp Te Kum Ta (half of this years profits went to the camp http://www.takumta.org/).  Vtrim was  honored to be a featured sponsor at this event, which emphasized fitness, fun, and philanthropy all at the same time.  Check out our photos and let us know if you were there!  We would love to hear about your experience.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/vtrim/

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