Teriyaki Donut Route and Report
I did it with my two kids, Emmett (5) and Omar (8), as I did last year. I looked at last year's report to see how far we went (4 miles) and mapped out a course that went a bit further. I was aiming for 4.5 miles, we went 4.8 or so. We did almost all of the uphill at the beginning, so the last half was a lot easier. We ended up jogging a lot once we got back on the Leary Way corridor.
In order, we visited 32, 12, 13, 34, 55, 11, 31, 47, 54, 53, 33, 46, 35, 45, 36, 44, 22, 14, 21. We went across the Fremont Bridge, then back to the Rocket and Troll checkpoints, then a big counter-clockwise loop, crossing Aurora at the overpass on 41st. I had given Elizabeth my watch, so I was consulting my cell phone for time updates. We hit 53 [Lincoln High] at around 11:20, and 35 [shed with berries] at around 11:40.
I thought the question at 47 [Institute for Systems Biology] was rather ambiguous; for all I know, there was as much experimenting going on in that mural as there was driving.
The kids drank most of our water on the way up to the troll, but I managed to refill as we were cutting through Wallingford Playground. It was raining pretty well at this point, but slacked off when we started going downhill, so that worked out fine. The M&M bribes (see last year's report for our complex system) also worked well, although at the end we were in such a rush I lost track of how many candies they were owed.
We had seven minutes or so left after 22 [shovels on fence], hustled for the final two checkpoints, and made it in (apparently) just in time. We won the Family Pee-Wee class with 570 points. Emmett cried when he didn't get the princess candy bar, but the folks who were handing out prizes were nice enough to allow us to trade.