Reliving the moment!
Before the day begun!
Valerie and I competed in the Great Urban Adventure Race held in Austin on Saturday! Okay, we didn't come in first, but we came in 14th out of 500 teams!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!! Never, in a million years, did I EVER think we would do so well! Thanks to my teammate being familiar with Austin, we are now headed to the National Championship in New Orleans this November!!! 
Clue man
The best thing to compare it to is the Amazing Race. We were handed a list of clues to kick off the race, and had to complete 11 challenges/puzzles/obstacles/boat rowing,etc. (you were given 12, but could skip 1) in under 5 hours. Val would have to correct me on this and the results aren't posted yet, but I'm pretty sure we did it right at 2 1/2 hours (which felt like 4-EVAAAA!) We had them confirm our placement on multiple occasions because we couldn't believe we did that well! The top teams do this crap for a living people. They have teams of people that help them out with where to go, what clue to do first, what bus to get on (the only other form of transportation you can use is a bus...which Val and I used 2 x's.) There was a team that placed 11th that ran the entire race and DIDN'T use the bus (all the stops slow you down.)
Clue manThe best thing to compare it to is the Amazing Race. We were handed a list of clues to kick off the race, and had to complete 11 challenges/puzzles/obstacles/boat rowing,etc. (you were given 12, but could skip 1) in under 5 hours. Val would have to correct me on this and the results aren't posted yet, but I'm pretty sure we did it right at 2 1/2 hours (which felt like 4-EVAAAA!) We had them confirm our placement on multiple occasions because we couldn't believe we did that well! The top teams do this crap for a living people. They have teams of people that help them out with where to go, what clue to do first, what bus to get on (the only other form of transportation you can use is a bus...which Val and I used 2 x's.) There was a team that placed 11th that ran the entire race and DIDN'T use the bus (all the stops slow you down.)
Valerie had to feed me an empanada
The blue sock lady with us giving her $5 for being so generous!You can also utilize navigation systems, phones, and have people google info. for you. This sounds easy, but it is WAY more complicated than it sounds. We tried to have Joe & Andrew help us, but it didn't work in our favor. In this particular clue (photo), we had to find a blue sock, grape mike & ikes, or a bounty bar. Sounds simple, right???? We had the guys out looking for any of the above, and they couldn't find a single item!!!!! We were running around the UT campus searching for Bevo, when Valerie came up with the idea to start knocking on college kids doors in search of a blue sock. Well, the 1 door I knocked on came out to work in our favor and the chick gave a pair to us for $5!!!! You also had to take photos of all clues and receive stamps for completing the task. If you screwed up or didn't complete the task, you were penalized 30 minutes on top of your finishing time. We were careful with attention to detail, and didn't accumulate any penalties.
Adam and Eve should have won for best costume; but nope, they were beat out by 2 lesbians called "Dos Frutos" (2 fruits!) Funny, and I guess that's what I should have expected coming for Austin and all!
My supportive hubby!Aahhhh...... so now we will be gearing up/strategizing for the Nationals in New Orleans. I'm thinking we need a team of people to fly out there, set up shop at local coffee bars with internet connections to google the crap out of stuff for us while we run our asses around town! Anyone interested?????
Celebrating at Truluck's downtown Austin
3 comments:
How COOL! I've never heard of that before! Awesome!
AWESOME GIRL!! Wayda go!!
That sounds like so much fun! I love your team name; too funny!
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