AR Leg 5: Seriously Twised

Twisted was the theme for this leg and that it absolutely was! Remember our locks from the last leg? We had to keep them and bring them them with us for the 5th leg of the race. We started where we ended the last leg...home plate at the softball field. Now one thing I didn't tell you all is that each person has a bandana that they have to wear at each leg. It is your team color. Remember ours? Yep..pink! So we had to take these bandanas and tie our legs together three legged race style. We could use one or both of our bandanas. We opted to use one while others opted to use both. We realized quickly once we go to our first clue and saw we still had to remain tied together that something needed to change. It was pulling too tight on my ankle. Once we got to the first clue we decided to use both bandanas and kept thinking...why didn't we do this before? Oh well. At the clue we had to take either a Blue, Red, or Green ribbon. I grabbed a blue one and we were off to the next task.

So the next task was a rope maze. One person was locked in (using our lock from the week before) and had to navigate around a bunch of poles and picnic tables. I chose to do the maze so my partner had to do mountain climbers. Whew...glad I wasn't doing them. I hate them with a passion, but not as much as I hate burpees. Hopefully the powers that be are not reading this....please not burpbees during this amazing race i am begging you! Anyway, we could only go one at a time on the rope. Now my competitiveness comes and goes. Sometimes I am and sometimes I am not. I think I got half my dad's gene and half my mom's gene on that one. Unfortunately the person in front of me was having a very difficult time navigating through this maze and there was nothing I could do. Initially I was the only one behind her, but then the line started piling up and there was nothing we could do. I think we all decided it was in our best interest to help her so that we could get started and be on our way. Because as we were doing ours there were 2 other rope mazes were going on at the same time. I have to admit I was very frustrated only because I knew I could have gotten through the maze very quickly...that is where the competitive was coming out...but alas, there was nothing I could do.

We finally all made it out of the "twisted" maze and had to head to the yoga room and do some yoga poses. They were all balance poses. While my balance is okay, it reinforced the fact that I am not flexible at all!! Perhaps I need to do more yoga. After the poses we had to hunt for a secret word written on one of the mats. Only one teammate could do it and I was the one. It turns out it was written in black on a black yoga mat. Once I found it, it was plane as day, but I looked at the mat a million times. I am convinced it was the way the light was hitting it that made it appear. Or maybe it was written in appearing ink instead of disappearing ink.

The next task was to make our way down the steps to the sidewalk and unscramble the chalk art. Let me say, I've seen better (haha, just kidding D if you are reading this). We approached and another team was standing there puzzled. I looked down and quickly figured it out. I didn't say a word I just took off running. When I did of course it hit them too I am guessing of the location of the pit stop. They sprinted past me and beat us by mere seconds to the pit stop. Oh well, we'll get em in the next leg. As a result of the wait at the rope maze we finished 9th or 10th or something. When you are breathing down the neck of the person in front of you it is hard to tell which team he is talking to. :-)

Needless to say I am pretty banged up from hurling myself over and under benches and picnic tables. I think I've counted 6 bruises so far. Until Thursday and leg 6....