Kilgore_Trout

well, i told you (plural) i was going to throw together a race really quickly, and here it is!

in memory of my favorite author here's a kurt vonnegut themed race for ya.

SATURDAY, MAY 12TH, 5PM registration, 5:30PM start. $5
starting point is charlesgate and commonwealth ave, near the statue (like where 6degrees and the really stupid races started).
prizes will just be a divvying up of the money earned from registration

flier coming soon courtesy of mark (username: ilikeitfixed on bostonfixed.com).

FRIDAY, MAY 11TH, sometime in the morning, i WILL be posting a list of hints

if anyone has any ideas on where there could be an after party/gathering, let me know, because i don't have such connections.

further info will be cross-posted both on this thread and the bostonfixed one.
thanks! come out, have fun

BuddyMike

will pall mall's or time travel be involved....?

Kilgore_Trout

no pall malls or time travel, but space travel will be involved. plus, you will have to pick a beautiful, historic, innocent city and firebomb the sh*t out of it.

ratattack

unless i get to wait it out in a meat locker, i'm not interested.

DannyRocks

Dresden was no more innocent than Newark.

Kilgore_Trout

ok, so who can definitely work a checkpoint?

Kilgore_Trout

CHECKPOINT HINTS!!!


Eugene Debs Hartke
Dwayne Hoover
Rabo Karabekian
Billy Pilgrim
Paul Proteus
Eliot Rosewater
Walter Starbuck
Leon Trotsky Trout
dates

Kilgore_Trout

each of the characters has a checkpoint connected with him. something about the character in each of the books (sometimes their main feature) is what the checkpoint is.

BuddyMike

is it supposed to be a clue about the checkpoint location or something we will have to do at the checkpoint.....

Kilgore_Trout

each of the characters corresponds to a checkpoint location.

BuddyMike

are you giving the checkpoints out before or at the start since I probably won't get the check points from those clues....... I probably will and think I'm WAAAAAAAY off.

Kilgore_Trout

still looking for checkpoint workers. thanks.

Kilgore_Trout

manifest read:


checkpoints MUST be done in order of publication date


start: charlesgate east & comm ave


billy pilgrim - "slaughterhouse five" (1969)
john dewar & co meat packing plant

1000 mass ave


rabo karabekian - "bluebeard" (1987)
boston art gallery
330 congress st


walter starbuck - "jailbird" (1979)
suffolk county jailhouse
200 nashua st


eliot rosewater - "god bless you, mr. rosewater" (1965)
cam neely benefit foundation
30 winter st


dwayne hoover - "breakfast of champions" (1973)
herb chambers car dealership
1168 comm ave


eugene debs harkte - "hocus pocus" (1990)
boston university marsh plaza
735 comm ave


leon trotsky trout - "galapagos" (1985)
trans national travel agency
2 charlesgate west


paul proteus - "player piano" (1952)
intergen energy inc
1 bowdoin sq


finish: back at charlesgate east & comm ave

connections that my stupid logic made:
-billy pilgrim was in a slaughterhouse; john dewar is a meat packing plant (close to a slaughter house)
-rabo karabekian's secret that he keeps for most of the novel is that he has done a master painting; art galleries have paintings
-walter starbuck was arrested for his part in the watergate scandal; suffolk county jail is a jail
-eliot rosewater is the founder of a benefit foundation; cam neely foundation is a benefit foundation
-dwayne hoover was a cars salesman; herb chambers is a car dealership
-eugene debs harkte witnesses the changing of a university to a jail; boston university is a university
-leon trotsky trout was entombed in a crusie ship that went to the galapagos islands; travel agencies go to islands
-paul proteus worked at an energy plant; intergen is an energy firm


so if you were wondering what was going through my head, that ( ^ ) was it.


here's the gmap route i came up with really quickly
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=895003


i'm sure you could have shaved off a few tenths of a mile here and there, but it was roughly a 22mile route.

Kilgore_Trout

RACE RESULTS:
place. name (spoke card number): time
1. josh (10): 1hr 21mins
2. david [nosepicker] (16): 1hr 23mins
3. mark (2): 1hr 24mins
4. scott (6): 1hr 31mins
5. greg (24): 1hr 36mins
6. brian (5): 1hr 37mins
7. aaron (1): 1hr 37mins
8. phil (13): 1hr 47mins
9. rich (11): 1hr 48mins
10. mike (24): 1hr 53mins
11. dan roch (8): 2hr 11mins
12. eric (4): 2hr 11mins (i guess you could claim DFL)
LM - morgan (14)
DNF - danny c (7)
DNF - gary (3)
DNF - cody (9)
DNF - nick (12)
DNF - erik (15)

thank you so much to everyone for coming out and especially to those working checkpoints; much obliged.
congrats to josh, taking home the entire pot of $90 (though i think he split it up a bit)
i'm glad everyone had fun and was safe.