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To the race! (part 9)
After Uplift Events decided not to hold an Amazing Race last year but to move it to April this year it was a bit disheartening to also find out that this year's race would be the last one, at least unless they decided to try it again down the track. So yeah - Urban Max, City Chase, Rat Race and now the Amazing Race have all given up on Melbourne ( Read more... ) -
To the race! (Part... um... 7)
It's that time of the year again, Great Amazing Race Pursuit (or whatever they're calling it this year, I forget.). kirstenfleur was unfortunately (for me, not for her) overseas at a wedding, so I teamed up with astrocave to form "Hadron's Weasels". The team name came from this incident of course where weasels managed to short circuit the LHC by chewing wires. I ( Read more... ) -
To the race! (part 6)
Yesterday kirstenfleur and I competed in another mini-Amazing Race Pursuit. There was a bit of a kerfuffle starting the day before when we belated realised that the plans we had made were not in fact going to work - doing these races has become increasingly complicated as our children start participating in Saturday activities!! Fortunately Dean and kirstenfleur's ( Read more... ) -
To the race! (Part 5)
So a couple of weeks ago kirstenfleur and I met up to run as "Mum's Day Out" again in The Great Amazing Race.( Read more... ) -
50 shades of yawn
So I went to see 50 Shades of Grey. ( Don't judge me. ) -
To the race! (part III)
After our very sucessful mini-race I somewhat ambitiously entered kirstenfleur and myself into the competitive category of this year's Great Amazing Race. The idea was that we had months to train. Naturally we didn't. This was due to a number of things, including both of us managing to injure our knees at different times, children, life and general ( Read more... ) -
To the Race! (mini-version)
Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Amanda, the personal trainer, asking me if I'd seen the Scoupon Amazing Race offer. No, I hadn't, yes, I was interested. It was a promotion for a mini-Amazing Race event being run by the same company but sold entirely through Scoupon and another similar company. Instead of 6 hours it would be 4 and they were ( Read more... ) -
TAR and endings
I really like The Amazing Race.( Read more... ) -
To the Race!! (part II)
So way, way back in 2010 kirstenfleur and I competed in The Great Amazing Race around Melbourne. ( Read more... )
