Saturday, November 20, 2010
Some PR company sent us a complimentary invitation to join the UrbanMAX race. I never heard about this thing before. To quote their website, "The Urban Max is part adventure race, part scavenger hunt with a mix of the amazing race. It is a completely new format of racing that will take teams of two through the heart of the host city. Competitors will get to visit some of the cities most famous landmarks, as well as suburban areas, while completing a variety of activities along the way."
As a huge fans of Amazing Race, I forwarded this invite to Tash half jokingly asking her to be my partner and she said yes! so we both sign up for this race and I named our team Rainbow Brite (awesome name, I know:P)
More than 1000 people entered this race and we all gathered at Cockle Bay Wharf to get our shirt and number. The race starts at 9am and our category has to do 14 out of 20 checkpoint that are spread out around CBD and nearby suburbs.
More than 1000 people entered this race and we all gathered at Cockle Bay Wharf to get our shirt and number. The race starts at 9am and our category has to do 14 out of 20 checkpoint that are spread out around CBD and nearby suburbs.
We were running around everywhere, from Darling Harbour to Paddington and Redfern oval to name a few.
I jumped in the pool looking for words and we did Zumba, ping pong, stacking card and other fun activities. I think the hardest part of the race is solving the clues that they give us and to know where should go first.
We thought we did quite alright, 11 checkpoints in 6 hours; that's why we're so shocked when the winners were announced and they did all 14 checkpoints in under 3 hours. That's just really insane! We don't know how they managed to do that, since it's quite a distance from one checkpoint to another. We had a lots of fun anyway. It was really hard but we did it. I'm sure my body will be sore for a couple of days after this but hey, it was worth the experience and I think I will do it again next year.
Here's their website if you guys want to find out more about UrbanMAX: http://www.maxadventure.com.au/urbanmax/
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To complete one of the checkpoints, we had to take a picture with a person who's doing a Movember (an annual month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November) and this guy was so happy to help us out.
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