I Got my Chase On

This Past Saturday I got my chase on....City Chase that is. 

For those of you who have heard of the Amazing Race, I did a mini, urban version of that race.  It was a day long race through the city streets of Manhattan.  Basically we had about 6 hours to complete 10 challenges.  we raced about 200 other teams through the streets of the city, our goal being to first figure out the clue to the challenges and then complete the challenges in the fastest amount of time.  The challenges ranged from swimming, archery, getting change out of a bucket filled with hissing madagascar cockroaches, teaching strangers on the street a magic trick, biking 40 blocks while singing at the top of our lungs, and so on.  It was quite the experience to race through the streets.  We could either take public transportation to get from one point to the other or we could use our two feet.  But With public transportation often being slow our team ended up running ALOT!  I was so tired by the end of the day, but the experience was so great.  I saw parts of the city that I have never seen before, got to do some fun and crazy things in the city, was pushed out of my comfort zone, and had a great time spending the day with 3 of my friends!

Getting into action before the race began...

This was us running to one of our many locations 

Waiting on the subway.  The green sheet I am holding is the clues for the challenges.  We used our subway time to work on our clues and plan out our routes

My last challenge was to put my hand in the jar of roaches.  It may not look like many in there, but there were a TON.  I had to pick the roaches up in order to get the change out of the bottom of the bucket. eeewww!!! 

City Chase is the largest urban race in the world.  If you live in a big city I would totally recommend you taking part in this crazy adventure!