Gearing up for the Vancouver City Chase!
It’s that time of year again: time for the Vancouver City Chase!
Quite possibly my favorite day of the year, it’s the only day that I get to run around like a madwoman, doing all sorts of random adventures in the best city in the world! At this point all we know is where the start/finish line is and that a secret hint delivered by facebook directs us to Portside Park, but what we have to do there is still a mystery. Awesome. And just because they love me (yes, I choose to believe this), they have decided this year to hold it on my birthday. Yep, Saturday is all about meeeeee!!
So now we’re in prep mode, which is always an interesting thing to do when you don’t know what you’re prepping for. My teammate is hitting the gym (of course, two whole days of exercise is going to make a huge difference, lol!) and I’m hitting the streets, trying to familiarize myself with the areas downtown I don’t often get a chance to see. Like I had no idea where Portside Park was until I google mapped it. With the Canada Line getting you from downtown to Richmond in 20 minutes, that opens up a whole new section of Vancouver that we never could access before, since you would loose too much time in transit to actually complete the race in the allocated 6 hours. My spider-sense is telling me to check out areas around the Canada Line stops. Since my office is not too far from a Canada Line station, I already have my coworkers prepped that if I call they’ll quickly do anything I need (love them!). Going near work would be too awesome for words. But, of course, I could be way off and doing all this for nothing as the route this year could be completely in the other direction. That surprise is the wonder of the Chase.
So far this year, in the other City Chases accross Canada, they have done stuff like strip bowling, holding a live crocodile, whitewater kayaking, shooting machine guns and completing a military obsticle course, so God knows what we’ll be asked to do, but one thing’s for sure: it’s going to be epic.
And I’m going to love every second of it.
Full recap to follow!!!
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