Mistubishi City Chase - Calgary '08

All in all, it was definitely fun times. We came in #235 and it took us 4 hrs and 52 minutes to complete. There were 700 people who were registered. You can go onto the Mitsubishi City Chase website for more photos of our day.

And this was my favourite one. It was our last one, we had to run inside the ball, like we were gerbils, and knock down some bowling pins. This isn't Kevin. When we went it was pouring outside.

A chase point we could've done: walked up the Calgary Tower's 800 steps. I think I would've died that day if we did.

We had to do a tire roll (not a regular car tire, those monstrous ones that go on the military vehicles) up and down this parking lot, and then along a sidewalk. We didn't know though that if we dropped it, it was 10 pushups.

We learned that the hard way.

Here there was netting that was about 2 ft high, which we had to crawl under. But wait that part was easy, the hard part was both of us trying to crawl under it with an 80 lb gun on a stand.

This was our second chase point (challenge) that we went to. This place sells nothing but hotdogs with ANY type of topping possible. So the challenge was, based on our birthdays, the number combination the City Chase volunteers got from our dates, are the toppings we got on our hotdog. We are to share and eat every little thing. The toppings on our hotdog: peanut butter, sauerkraut, ketchup, hot peppers, cap'n krunch cereal. Some people had wasabi, pickled ginger, oysters, jalapeno peppers, garlic.

This was our first challenge which ended up taking most of our time because of course, it was the closest one... and there were lots of people. This was a blackberry challenge where we needed to use the video and camera feature. Some things we had to do for this challenge: take a picture of a team member sitting in a puddle, video of your partner sharing food with a stranger (I shared my granola with a stranger, me eating on one end him on the other), take a video of you and your partner dancing like a monkey for 15 seconds (I danced like a monkey with a wonderful mother with her children - I think her children thought we were crazy).

In order for us to get this clue sheet to do the scavenger hunt/race, we had to do a scavenger hunt. We needed to find five things: when the anchor/anvil on Prince's Island park was created, a live animal, a team that had a number on their team number which matched yours, show a bruise and answer the question on where the coordinator stayed in Morrocco. Easy stuff. The actual race was the challenging part. There were 13 out of 25 that we had to choose from, and some of them were mandatory (sadly the one at the armoury was one of them).

The "Chixie Dicks" and not sure of the clowns' names. They were tied for best costumes. The bozos are the ones that wore Depends.

Waiting to do some exercises to warm up...

I look about 5 months pregnant and with a neck brace. Not an ideal situation to be doing a scavenger hunt in the city.But it's a good thing I'm not pregnant or have an injured neck. It's the sweatband and the rain jacket which is too big for me - I swear.

Lindsey and Brian were inspired by the email that went around Kevin's office to sponsor us, they decided to sign up the day before the event and try it out. We didn't plan it but we ended up doing the race together.

Okay coach I'm ready!

Waiting for the rest of late people to register.

Um ... my diaper needs changing. Anyone?

They were well prepared for the weather!

Me and a couple of crackberries. Almost as scary as clowns.