{"id":152,"date":"2016-05-16T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2016-05-19T18:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T18:45:30","slug":"questival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinna.com\/questival\/","title":{"rendered":"Participating in Denver Questival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-197 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160513_220009.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160513_220009\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160513_220009.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160513_220009-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/livinna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160513_220009-15x20.jpg 15w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This past weekend I, and 5 friends, participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotopaxi.com\/pages\/events-questival-home\">Cotopaxi Questival<\/a> in Denver for the first time.<\/h5>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost always looking for an excuse to do something new, interesting, quirky, or unusual, so this was right up my alley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is a 24-hour adventure race that involves challenges relating to fitness, food, community service, outdoors, teamwork, and lots more. \u00a0I liked that it encouraged you to step outside your comfort zone and be quirky, but also involved caring acts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We all met at Denver Sculpture Park right after work on friday for the pre-festival kickoff. \u00a0There were a ton of challenges you could tick off the list right there including play giant beer pong (sans beer), take a team selfie with the llama mascot, and learn about malaria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hundreds of participants soon gathered for a dance off before swarming, en masse, into the surrounding downtown Denver to tackle some challenges.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">We took a selfie with our favorite Street art<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I donned headphones and sang my favorite song as loudly as possible on a busy street.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">We had a bubble gum blowing contest with a stranger<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Met a guy on the bus who had seen someone attacked by a samurai sword earlier that day at Walmart. \u00a0This guy, Kevin, became our &#8220;Humans of Denver&#8221; challenge and ended up joining our team for a short while.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #ffffff;\">Sang and danced to YMCA outside of the YMCA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">We took a selfie outside the state capital building.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Took an artistic selfie outside the Denver Art Museum<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And lots more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next day, we woke up bright and early and:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Went to Centennial to shake hands with Mayor Noon at the Highline Canal 5k race<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Made signs and cheered on the runners<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Did a crossfit workout in full aerobics gear.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Did 50 unbroken push-ups.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Donated clothes to Arc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Dressed one of our team mates up as a Disney princess from clothes found at Arc<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Left goodie bags of candy outside neighbor&#8217;s doors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Opened the door for a stranger and complimented them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Gave a lecture in a crowded elevator about how cool llamas are.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Did really bad parkour in a park whilst shouting &#8220;Parkour&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details to come but in the meanwhile, checkout the videos below for\u00a0a peek at our 24 hour shenanigans!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xI-1Y5qh_hg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGP-IHUwEws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I, and 5 friends, participated in the Cotopaxi Questival in Denver for the first time. 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