F...I...E...R...C...E

Last Sunday we had our race - Adventure in Motion which encompassed about 30 (perhaps a few more) teams of 4 members and which raised $25,000 for the Special Olympics and Partners in Youth! Amazing. Thank goodness our team - Fun Fab Fierce Four, had the Queen of fundraising on it - LM, who brought our total funds raised to $1890.00 !! :) We even won 1st prize for top fundraising and received $50 car rental, a night in a local hotel and four free weeks at a really nice gym!
We had a super time and were all definitely a bit sore for a few days afterwards. Running around the City for 4 hours tends to do that to you. It was a great turn out and is getting bigger and better each year. We weren't sure what place we came in, but we know we did well and got to may stations and challenges - everytime we came to a new one they exclaimed "Wow, you've completed a lot of challenges." So i'm thinking we must have come in the top 10 out of 30 - possibly even better than that.
In order to complete a challenge we had to solve the clue and know where in the City we had to be, and we successfully solved each clue except one held us up and we ran out of our way to two seperate spots before we found the sundial that was the answer...but it was all good, we were really quite fast! Some different challenges that we had to perform were: Answer trivia questions about the Special Olympics; name each Canadian flag; carry a canoe across the walking bridge downtown (we vetoed this one...don't think so babe), catch jello in your mouth from 20 feet above you, ask random people on the street to take your picture and donate money to special olympics, pilates pose for 2 mins, name that tune, golf, water balloon, 4 person potato sack race (sooo tough on the abs), parallel parking blindfolded, puzzles puzzles and more puzzles, cartwheels and singing, large sudoku puzzle etc.
There were some pretty creative costumes too - a group of women in wedding dresses called the Runaway Bridges (they must have died of heat....ugh), and a couple teams of superheros (picture men in black tights with yellow panties over top of them complete with orange duct tape around their waiste holding up the panties and a lightening bolt of yellow paper on their chests...LOL - hot!)
By the end of the race we were starved and due for some beverages! It was a really great day and nice to spend time with friends doing something different!