Metrogaine 2006!

What is Metrogaine 2006 you ask??? It's an Amazing Race style event run by Christian Chinese Church, Milson's Point and I took part in it for the first time this year! In my team of 4 were Paul, Lok and Kenneth! We adorned our red and yellow ninja headband/tie team colours and soon the race started with a mintie search around the church grounds to get our first clue!

Our first checkpoint was Bondi Junction where I drew on knowledge from local resident Carmen to find the Darrell Lea there! Got our next clue/task and from there went to Waverly St Mall to do a Weetbix challenge! We got there first and Paul took up the challenge to down 2 weetbix without water! Soon we were on our way to Edgecliff Station and Rushcutters bay where another array of tasks awaited us including team tug-o-war, golf, and pingpong ball chopstick challenges! At this stage we were roughly in 3rd place!

The next stop was the War Memorial in Hyde Park in the city. Tasks there included taking funny photos with strangers and doing various poses! Next we headed to the nearby Botanical Gardens in search of the names of various trees we were given pictures of. The next checkpoint is where we lost time as Paul, Lok and Kenneth headed off in search of it, whilst I finished off the tree spotting task. I found it pretty quickly but they practically ran all around the gardens before finally meeting me at the correct place! Tasks here included soccer and a 'cyclone relay', which I shall never forget! It involved us running around a soccer ball 30 times, the end of which we each in turn felt nauseous and couldn't stop falling over! Moreover, I soon developed intractable cramps in both calves from dehydration and muscle strain from the cyclone so again our team was slowed down as my team mates searched for a store selling Powerade/Gatorade!

Limped all the way to the next stop, Circular Quay, from which we were directed to the Museum of Contemporary Arts. Finally the finish line was opposite CCC and we checked in in 13th place. Not bad all things considered!!! After all the pts were added up from the puzzles and tasks, we ended up in 9th place (out of about 30 teams!) Was good to sit down and enjoy sausage sizzle after running all over Sydney all day!

So the verdict: awesome race - will do it again next year and will remember to bring Powerade/Gatorade! My legs are so sore!!! (>-<) Looks like I'll be limping around hospital for the next couple of days...!