SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, May 9 (Mother's Day Weekend)
Cost: about $12 per participant (non-refundable and necessary for our "prize" budget)
Sign in at 10 am, Race starts at 10:30 am, ends with happy hour around 4:30. Explore our options to join for fewer hours, narrowing to midday.
Location: Alexandria Old Town-- King Street, Waterfront, several stations around town
Registration will be limited to the first 100 participants (who will be grouped into squads of about 4) when our link goes live. First come, first served.
Watch for interest meetings that support squad-building across the spring, including at a table at Feb. 19 Happy Hour (Bethesda's World of Beer), another Happy Hour on March 11 at Mr. Henry's, and a morning Zoom information session in April TBD. (Squad Captains select just one interest meeting to attend.)
Family friendly event, dog-friendly for parts, fun for people of all ages and nothing too physically demanding unless you are hard-core. You WILL want to wear sneakers for comfort and some "rushing around" or jumping up and down with uncontainable excitement. Web site with course map, details and Q/A going live by Feb. 19.
Who? Cornell Club Members who become Squad Captains may invite non-Cornell Club members such as spouses, kiddos, significant others, friends, onto their squads. Individuals who are Cornell Club members who seek squads to join will be matched to others with the help of TAR organizers.
What to expect: Join for a multi-hour event fashioned on the television reality show The Amazing Race (see Season 8 if you can.) It will be a day of fun competition between 3-6 member squads. Just like the show, it will have some "rushing around," some problem-solving, scavenger-hunting, culture/history learning, obstacles, alliance-building, alliance-betraying, cut-throat strategy, and will include a community service activity that supports Stroke Smart. Annnnnnnnd just like the TV show, the winners of the race will get 1 meeeeeeeeeelion dollars!
What to do now:
- Find out about The Amazing Race at Wikipedia. Episodes we recommend watching are "Season 8" in the Paramount app, which is better than the presently airing season (which is lame and not the usual format.)
- Think about whom you'd invite to compete with you as part of your Squad. Organizers can assist to put you onto a squad if you don't have a group of 3-4 to register together already. The event will make you fast friends! We'll be helping form teams at each Interest Meeting this Spring.)
- Optional: watch Alan Stillman's 4 minute Ted Talk to understand our Cornellian's motivation behind the community service component of our Race Day (which is the focus of one leg of our race): https://youtu.be/NVZiNkx9StQ?si=Ebif38OaKiYKWXUw
- Optional: Educate yourself and your potential teammates about Stroke Smart via the Virginia Dept of Health web site https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/stroke/stroke-smart-virginia/
(Even a little prep ahead will help you win the overall race. Just sayin.')
- If you would like to be involved in ORGANIZING the event rather than being a participant, e-mail the CCW's VP for Community Service to join our extremely cool and fun-loving committee. Seriously, we are laughing our a##s off as we design this thing.
Questions? Come to the Interest Meetings and peruse the web site which goes live by Feb. 19. Can also e-mail Maggie, '86 at the following address:
Librarian MS @ gmail .com [no spaces]
