You’ve seen the TV show, now live the adventure yourself! Who would you do the Amazing Race with? Your husband, girlfriend, sister, dad, buddy, co-worker? Decide, then sign up!

The Easter Seals Amazing Race is a one day event being held this year on Sunday, September 19 in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland. Teams of 2 (girl-girl; guy-guy, girl-guy… whatever, it’s your choice) will take to the water, to the land and maybe even a little bit to the sky … in the race of a lifetime.

Like in the TV show, your team will be challenged to get from checkpoint to checkpoint and defeat many challenges and challengers along the way. You might have to buddy up in a sea kayak and head to the point to collect your next clue… you may have to hop onto a mountain bike and careen into the woods… military style obstacle course? Mud pits? Mental challenges? Strategy challenges? Rapel? Who knows, we’re not telling, and there’s only one way for you to find out! Sign up!

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This is the old Pedal2Paddle for Easter Seals event that the Society ran from Bay Bulls for the past five years. If you raced in that event, you probably had a lot of fun. Well, believe us, you haven’t seen anything yet! Split your team of four into two teams of two and get ready for the most AMAZING RACE of your lives!

Three Tiers – There will be three tiers of competition. Yes, there will still be an EXTREME race for the nuts that actually get into the idea of mountain biking through hell for an hour or two; and there will again be the ADVENTURE race for those that don’t live and breath adventure racing and want to challenge themselves without worrying about taking out life insurance before the race. And this year, for the first time, we’ll be offering a junior race, for the new generation of adventurers. The Extreme and Adventure races will be run simultaneously. You might even find yourselves working together at some point! The kids will take to a shortened course a little later on while the bruised and battered adult teams relax at O’Brien’s Stagehead with a cool refreshment.

Roadblocks and detours – Check out the tv show if you don’t know what these are! We’ll have challenges for one or both members of your team to complete – and we’re going to make it interesting – yes, you can count on some physical challenges, but don’t think for a second that the teams of brawny guys will have all the advantages! We’ll make you think, unravel puzzles, strategize, work as a team … we’re not going to give it all away but we guarantee you that you’ll have a blast and yes, you WILL be challenged!

Remember last year’s prizes? – Pedal2Paddle prided itself on providing some of the best prizes to our winning teams and fundraising teams of any race around. Once again Jonathon and the gang at the Outfitters are coming on strong for THE AMAZING RACE and have set us up with some AWESOME gear, up for grabs to the top fundraising teams and winning teams.

Great Grub! – Follett’s Foodland is again on board with us serving up steaks and baked potatoes for all the hungry adventurers after the race.

A great race! – We haven’t forgotten the basics of adventure racing – while the AMAZING RACE will involve a lot more obstacles, teamplay and various challenges, the race will continue to be physically challenging. If you go for the Extreme race, expect to sea kayak til your shoulders are numb; expect to mountain bike across ridiculously rough terrain, expect to run your butt off! If you sign up for the Adventure course, also expect to find yourselves in a sea kayak and on a mountain bike and running, but don’t worry, those events won’t be any longer than they were last year and, in fact, with the addition of some of the other physical, mental, team and strategy challenges, you might even find some of those legs shortened a little.

All money raised through pledges by participating teams will go directly to help out kids with physical disabilities in our Province and to fund great programs like the Easter Seals summer camps, sailing and skiing programs and the Easter Seals direct assistance services to help out families with children with disabilities.