City Chase an urban adventure/scavenger hunt that teams of 2 will run, walk and use public transit to navigate their way throughout the city while completing 10 "ChasePoints" challenges before the 6 hour cut off time. Previous challenges includes pole dancing, white water rafting, sledge hockey, bug eating, letting tarantula crawl on your stomach and more, all designed to test you mentally and/or physically and to push your comfort zones. Simply said, City Chase is like a mini-Amazing Race.
Being a huge Amazing Race fan, I have always wanted to give City Chase a try and finally, this is THE year. The Toronto #1 event this year is the 100th event and the start/finish line was stationed at Nathan Phillip Square. To celebrate the 100th race, there are many special ChasePoints including rappelling down the Toronto City Hall. I would've loved to rappel down the City Hall just like Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil (how often do you get a chance to do that?) but my partner said absolutely not so we did some of the more "ordinary" challenges instead.
Here are our clue sheets:
We talked about strategies pre-race and were going to spend a good 20 mins after we get our clue sheet to determine the best route but as soon as the clue sheet is in our hands, I got anxious and threw all the strategies out the door! With everyone running towards a subway/streetcar, all I wanted to do was to start moving! Needless to say, I was dragging Laura to the subway station before she had a chance to complain!
Here are the challenges/route we decided to do/go:
#1 Say Cheese @ Rogers store near Yonge & Davisville (challenge is on the red clue sheet) - the first 25 teams finish this challenge will get a fast forward pass (Skip line up at a chosen challenge) - we ended up finishing at 28th, watched the last pass being given away
#2 Burn It Off @ Goodlife near Yonge & St. Clair - we had to choose a chocolate bar before we go into Goodlife… then once we chosen the chocolate bar, we had to burn the calories of that chocolate bar on treadmills as a team
#3 Boot Camp @ Balfour Park near Yonge & St. Clair - like it said, it's a boot camp
#4 Using Your Head @ the same park for boot camp - One of us had to wear a helmet with a bucket on top, and the person had to throw a beanbag in the bucket from 4 different distance
#5 Serve 'em Up @ Yonge & Bloor - essentially bartending - one of us had to shake the drink and throw a slice of lemon in the shaker behind her back, and one of us had to serve the drink with the glass on top of our forehead (easy but long line, although we used the waiting time to have our only washroom break of the race)
#6 Walk Hard @ Trinity Bellwoods Park - one of us had to balance and walk on ropes that's tied between trees (can use the partner to balance) - there are I think 5 of them and if at any point you fell of the rope, you have to line up in the back and do it all over again - we were able to finish it in one go
#7 Target Practice @ Trinity Bellwoods Park - we had to throw a very heavy ball (not sure what it is) into a bucket from a distance
#8 Climb On! @ Stanley Park South - we had to do piggyback polo
#9 Dip Dip Dip @ Waterfront (Address is wrong on clue sheet) - kayaking - one of us have to kayak to a floating ball and grab a coloured tag, then the other one had to do the same except to find the other colour - whichever colour your partner didn't grab (red/yellow)
#10 I'm Dancin' @ HTO Park - we had to learn a breakdancing routine
At the end, my partner and I are still friends when we cross the finish line and we finished at 268th place in 5 hour 5 mins 25 seconds. Our time is pretty decent for our first race considering alot of teams don't even get a rating because they cross the finish line after the 6 hour cut off time. We had so much fun and we would definitely recommend City Chase to anyone who's adventurous!
I think I'm addicted to urban adventures!
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