City Chase Toronto June 2010

Unbelievable!! I had a blast on Saturday during City Chase Toronto June 2010. It was 5 hours of orienteering, running, walking, taking the TCC, talking with complete strangers and bonding just because we were wearing the same red t-shirt, playing leap frog, mixing drinks, pulling cars, learning sign language, taking my shirt off in public, communicating via Blackberry messenger, doing Parkour, burning calories using a elliptical trainer, getting up on stage and much more. Our goal for our first City Chase was to finish within the allotted time. We finished 319 out of 600 teams. We were very happy with that result. We were EXHAUSTED!! We stopped at my cousin's house on the way home and they laughed at how tired we were.
We are talking about doing City Chase Toronto August 2010!!

Well, today I signed up for RockstAR Adventure Race...omg. I can't believe I did. I am nervous but I don't think I would be human if I wasn't nervous. I am most nervous about the running aspect and hoping my ankle will be ok. I was back at the chiropractor this morning (I know some people don't believe in chiropractors but mine changed my life, for the better. I wouldn't be able to live without him or my Massage Therapist). Saturday July 24 at 6 p.m. CHECK. Just another thing to check off my bucket list. I know I will be leaning on my fellow RaceDayRush/PhatChicks Chicks in the coming month and on the 24th. WOOT WOOT!!!

I am going to miss this Sunday's bootcamp as I will be in NYC!!

Mtn Biking, Orienteering, CP and The Cop

Today's Raceday Rush/Phat Chicks session was amazing! We met at Hilton Falls and reviewed orienteering tips and tricks from Bryan Connell. Once again, Bryan was patient with us, and even laughed at some of our colourful jokes/comments. The exercise today was to go to 4 Checkpoints (CP) and find colour balls (the same ones that taunted me during the canoe session a couple of weeks ago). I was determined that I wasn't going to let that happen this time. haha. We were given the bearings for 2 of the checkpoints where we had to use our compass, the other 2 we had to look in certain areas. My partner, Gail and I mapped out our plan. We got to the first check point and decided that we were spending too much time looking for it, so we continued on to the next checkpoint. This checkpoint was located at Hilton Falls near a fire pit (or a cookie lol). Shane met us at The Falls and stayed with us for a brief stretch. After we had found the ball and continued on to CP 3, we realized that we didn't even look at The Falls. Before the exercise started Neil was telling us how nice The Falls were. I guess Gail and I were concentrating on the task at hand! Then we heading to the most northerly CP. It was a nice ride on mostly wide trails, with one small portion of singletrack. Half way to the CP, Neil caught up to us with his stealthlike biking skills and scared me. I hope he edits what I yelled from his helmet cam recording. After finding the CP at the firepit and making fun of Neil (again) and his "interesting" video we took off to the next CP. It was up a singletrack trail that was muddy, Gail and I opted to get off our bikes. We were passed by Shannon, Susie, Bryan and Shane. For some reason, I worried that Susie would hide our bikes on us (funny after we all finished, Susie commented that it crossed her mind!). We had to make it back to the first CP. We looked for several minutes and decided we were too far into the forest and rode further down and finally located our final CP! We exited the forest and Neil was at the bottom telling us we were the first Phat Chicks to return!! We couldn't believe it! SWEET! It was a great day, lots of fun and my partner rocks!
I got my heart rate monitor today, so it will be interesting to see how it works.
Even getting pulled over by a cop on my way home didn't ruin my day. I forgot to get my validation sticker a couple of months ago. Duh. He just gave me a warning and I have to get it done with 72 hours. Guess where I will be at some point tomorrow. haha.