We're done! 366 days! - March 26 Event Cache
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We're done! 366 days! - March 26
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
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Saturday, March 26th, 2011 - 0700 hours.
Come join us for a celebration of a full year of caching every
day!!
Where: Al's Diner,
834 Clyde Ave., south of Carling Ave., near the new Canadian Tire
store.
What: Breakfast at
your own expense (around $7 each, order from a menu)
Please post a 'will attend' including the number of people in your
group A.S.A.P. if you plan to come so that I can notify the staff
of approximate number of patrons.
Hope to see you all! The agenda for after breakfast is to be
determined.
Lisa:
I started March 19th, 2010 without the goal of a year. It was (my
second or third crack at) a 10-day streak for a Bingo square. The
weather was nice, so I kept going. Then Easter came, I was in
Ottawa, and the weather was gorgeous - more caching! On Day 37, an
email came in about a 100-day challenge cache that was to be
published in a couple of months, telling me 'it would be a shame to
stop now!' so I continued. I had found out sometime around then
that Nano Bearss was on a streak, only 5 days behind. We joined
forces and went caching a lot together. At the end of April, my
buddy went back to Waterloo for school, carrying on the streak. I
went on solo except for a few visits back and forth throughout the
summer.
On Day 100, I held a similar event (!), then I was FTF on the
special challenge at Fitzroy on my 111th consecutive day. Around
Day 125, Nano Bearss suggested we go for year - so we could
eventually log The Ironman Challenge (365 days in a row) in
Waterloo. "It won't get any easier! We are already a third of the
way there, and exhausting the close-to-home caches". He was
right!
The time between then and about Day 300 was a blur. He returned to
Ottawa at the end of August and we cached together practically
everyday.
On December 18th he published a special cache for me and asked me
to marry him!
So then we had wedding planning to do, on top of work, and finding
a cache everyday. An added challenge!
The weather throughout the year was very, very good. I think that's
why my streak was so successful last spring - I loved being
outside!. We had some trying times with DNF's, agonizing over which
cache to go for that day that we both needed to find, migraines,
social plans, cold rain, wind and snow. There were days we'd find
more than one cache, and each day except for one, it was a cache
with a logbook (event or other, with a container). On Day 98, I
DNF'd twice and had no choice but to find a local virtual at
11:45pm after a Jazzfest show (Smokey Robinson).
We genuinely and honestly went to and found a legitimate cache
every single day (with Day 366 coming up on March 19th, 2011). I
only wish I'd taken a photo of our finds each day and kept a
running blog.
Brock:
Wow! This has been an long journey of 366 days of caching every day
in all kinds of weather: rain, sleet, snow, or on occassion, sun.
There were many days were caching was
a chore, but overall, I found the experience very enjoyable and
satisfying.
The most challenging part of the year for me was the 4 months I was
in school in Waterloo. I was biking for my find every day. Toward
the end of the term I was regularly biking 7+ km one way to each
cache!! 
Even on days I had exams, I still
managed to find something. missbug really helped by solving local
caches for me! 
I learned to save close caches for
rainy days or days I didn't have much time.
After that term was over, I came to Ottawa on co-op. It was
encouraging to be able to go out with missbug for our daily finds.
We motivated each other, and it was more enjoyable to do as a team.
Still there were days it was hard to work up the motivation to go
out and find some micro in an evergreen. But the end is in sight!!
My last day is March 24th and is coming up quickly! 
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