I realized that my email distribution list wasn't as inclusive as I thought when I was asked today about my experience from last weekend's Blackberry Curve Challenge event in Boston. It was hard, it was tiring, it was amazingly fun. And I am not just saying that because my team finished in the top 30, therefore winning a Blackberry Curve 8330 smartphone for my 3 1/2 hours of effort.
I am saying that because the scavenger hunt clues were difficult, the check point challenges were...um...
challenging, and the need for speed and efficiency paramount to score highly and finish well; all things that matched well with my expectations of the event and my own competitive nature. Unfortunately, we probably made things harder on ourselves by not taking some time early on to make sure we fully understood all of the directions and all of the clues. But hey, looking back I just appreciate that I was still able to get my hill work in afterall
from running up and down 4 times before we solved the previous clue and were allowed to enter the monument...and run up more than 250 stairs to reach the observation platform at the top of the narrow spiral staircase.
Then it was off to visit the planets in
the Community Solar System, with a detour through Harvard Square, a tour of the Back Bay, and a trip to the
oldest baseball park in America. Then we got to bob for apples in a lobster tank and complete a couple of obnoxiously difficult physical challenges.
But you know what? It was an absolute blast and I am really looking forward to doing it all again in San Francisco as
the winners of the Boston competition. Yeah, I know, not the best photo.
Great to hear that you do so well in the race. I am signed up with my wife for the Blackberry race in Minneapolis. Do you have any words of advice or anything that would help us out?