City Chase!

City Chase is like the amazing race, but in a six-hour, race around town to attempt a minimum of 10 required checkpoints at the 35 available checkpoints around town. Using nothing but public transportation and walking or running to get you places, this "race", that has no set route, is as easy or hard as you, transit issues, and the clue sheet make it. The clues were a little more cryptic than usual, some chase points super easy, some physically challenging, some disgusting, and the required points were more scattered around town than before.

Team "That's What She Said" reunited after a year off and Whitey and I covered about 15kms and a lot of ground using the TTC. I got to say a big thanks to marathon training as it kept me going today. We started off heading to Yonge and Dundas as I had seen the volunteers setting up their station on my way downtown this morning, so we knew there'd be one there. We headed up to the check point in Yorkville that had a street named after a type of pear to do Car-e-oke but didn't find it and I remembered it not being the funnest last week so we decided to take the subway all the way to Royal York to our second chase point, only to find out that there are two locations of the dance school we were looking for and that the one we wanted to go to was in... Yorkville, where we'd just been (at least we weren't the only team in this boat but still lost about 45 minutes). We went to paintball (although a nice team gave us the clue answer before we went in which made it easier, and we most certainly paid it forward to another team after as it was really tough!). Headed to Christie Pitts and did bootcamp and scaled a wall. Awesome volunteers manning this station - made my day. We played games invented in the 70s at Snakes and Lattes (70s theme for this edition of CC), and headed north to "Pick your Poison", where I ate a LIVE WORM while Whitey held a tarantula. This one took some guts and convincing on both our parts. Went to learn some ballroom dancing at the right location of previously mentioned dance school, sang some '70s tunes and did some '70s pop culture trivia and finished it off in a doubly-operated kayak, where I was blindfolded and Whitey was backwards.

Next year? Maybe do both editions? Maybe turn one into Endura Chase, where you continue beyond 10 and get as many checkpoints as you can and cross the finish line before the 6 hours is over? Totally :)

Ice bath, shower to not smell worse than the dog for much longer, dinner, and bed!