A couple of days late with this but but better late than never...
Overall a very cool concept for a race because speed was not the main criteria here. while there where checkpoints racers had to hit, the over all emphasis was on finding items listed on the manifest and either bringing them in to the finish line or taking a picture of them. Just to give you an idea of what these items could be:
- Rebar
- lawn chair
- traffic cone
- a picture of a hummer
- a picture of a defaced hummer
- a picture of a confederate flag
- a picture of a defaced confederate flag
- a picture of a guy with a beard
and these are just the items I can remember. There's pictures of both a defaced hummer and flag. I wont go in to who did what but lets just say peeps got in to the spirit of the race... ;)
I didn't race because I ended up volunteering to run a check point at the last minute. Ryan needed some help so I gladly offered to help him out. Julius and Melissa hung out with me @ my checkpoint for the majority of the race. In addition to the scavenger hunt, there where also tasks the racers had to perform at the checkpoints. By far the most hated one seemed to be the dry baked potato checkpoint. As you can imagine, you had to wolf one down in this lovely weather (the heat index was 100 degrees that day) while dealing with the cotton mouth everyone had. Made the fortune cookie checkpoint @ Rat Race 2 seem delightful by comparison. Other tasks included navigating a maze and in my particular spot, they had to met me at the Bank of America Drive thru, leave their bikes with me, walk in to the Fashion Square Mall via the Macy's entrance and find the Bearded Train Conductor in the mall. The stream of sweaty racers (some just wearing underwear) I'm sure made for a scene to the Sunday mall crowd and from what I heard, Macy's security guards where starting to follow peeps as they ran through the store. I'm sure they where undoubtedly confused regarding what the hell was going on...
Most people paired up in teams which made the cooperative nature of the race something not generally found in most alley cat races. Racers received points based on the items and pictures they produced. The winners of the race where Andrea and Mark, with the team of Mikey, Anthony & Jeremy placing second and then Team Kitty Wolf coming in third (or do I have second and third confused?). Either way, everyone seemed to have a blast. Yabai had quite the prize selection and pretty much everyone walked away with something. There was supposed to be a game of bike polo but I believe that ish got rained out during the deluge that hit that night...
All in all a wickedly good time! Hope to see Yabai do some more events like this in the future. BTW, you can read Ryans account of the weekend here.
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3 comments:
yea, AWESOME race. Had a lot of fun, and the 2-hour time limit made the race a really different experience. I have to tell you though, carrying weird shaped, bulky, heavy items on a bicycle for extended periods of time made me wish sometimes it was a regular race, but in the end I really dug the concept.
PS, polo still went down. shit was epic as always!
where can i see the pictures of the defaced stuff?
Dunno who had them and the only one I saw was the hummer with the anarchy symbol...
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