Urban Dare

So, on Friday, I'm just surfing the net, avoiding work and other things I should be doing and I come across the Urban Dare calender and realize the LA race is tomorrow, Saturday, (which is now yesterday) The race is part trivia, part road race, kind of like the amazing race, but one day and one city and..., you get the picture, or not, but anyway.

So I immediately register and then, after I've committed to it, then I start searching for a race partner(you must have a partner, there is no solo division). After frantic phone calling and mind racing, I find willing and able race partner Kip. Then I start trying to line up a support team. You need someone or better yet several people at computers to help answer the insane trivia questions and help navigate etc. End up enlisting my nephew Adam and Kip's wife Teresa, both awesome and huge help, really you can't do it without someone on the internet with advanced Google skills. Anyway here are some photos at various check points along the course

At the Grove, first check point, still looking fresh and smiling.




Second checkpoint, a little confused on clue, lost some time.



Made up some time, moving now.



Hey Kermit, moving along fast now and building up a sweat.



After a long run down Hollywood Blvd, photo and little rest(not really)



Ok, I'm not looking so good, looking pretty geeky. Yes I know the matching baby blue shirts had a looking like nerds from the start but now I'm really not looking so photogenic, at lest Kip's sporting cool shades and remembers that we are actually being photographed. Don't worry it gets worse. Also at this point we are running neck and neck with another team, so we will be trading cameras and taking pictures of each other from here till the finish.




This was an obstacle I opted to do. Find gum in a whip cream heap and then blow a bubble. Sounds easy but the whip cream sugarized the gum to make blowing a bubble virtually impossible.



Just before nasty gum challenge, sweety and promising myself to lose some weight and work on my cardio.





So close to the end.






The winners, note how young and fit they are. We came in 7th out of probably 30 to 40 teams, in just over 2 hours. Along the way we had some basket ball shooting obstacles, push-up/sit-up/squats, bubble blowing and finally some dart throwing before celebrating with some beers. Tons of fun, highly recommended and I look forward to the next one.



This was the team that we slogged it out with for the last few miles and check points. We just edged them out by hitting a bullseye before them. Fun competitors and good conversation after.
A final congratulations and thanks to Kip and our support crew of Adam and Teresa. Cindy who usually mans the computer and has gotten incredible at it was getting her hair done(No Joke) But gave encouraging phone just prior to the race and salon job.