5(!) freakin' gumballs. my jaw is gonna be sore for days!
(the memory of the pumpkin bread is helping though :))

i know i wasn't the only one who crossed lakeshore at roosevelt going to the field museum without the aid of the pedestrian tunnel. hauling your bike over the railing while 4 lanes of cars are flying by SCUKS!

i missed the tunnel at first, but didn't wanna try crossing LSD, so i carried my bike down the embankment to the tunnel cyclocross-style.

you think you have it rough? every time I go to her house she stuffs me with gumballs! when we go out - MORE GUMBALLS. Bike rides? "here, have a gumball instead of water".


I WILL DIE A SLOW, STICKY, CAVITY FILLED DEATH!!!

cp1: 25 pushups
cp2: 15 pushups
cp3: 10 pushups
cp4: "When did the Field Museum open?"
cp5: 1 can RB (no shots! WTF?!)
finish line: my patented "slide into home plate" move

yeah i crossed lakeshore going to the field as well... i thought there was a sidewalk on that one side and promptly found out there wasn't. when i saw that i could jump the fence i was oh so excited

1. Two Laps
2. Marker Stache
3. Five freaking gum balls
4. Did the 'The Worm'
5. Shot of bacardi/redbull

I did the Rosevelt/LSD thing as well, I just turned around and went back to the sidewalk that went under.

I'm curious, what if a person doesn't drink (okay, i'm straight edge) and s/he were in an alleycat where checkpoints required drinking?

Not trolling, just really curious.

redbull was an option. we kept it fun for everyone - no morals were tampered with.

it's funny how everyone complains about the eating the tea, when the REAL treachery of that checkpoint was the fact that there was a giant structure right smack in the middle on the way out to the pier, with like a foot of space on either side to get past it complete with wet patches right on the gap. If someone was too 'core or careless they would have gone straight into lake michigan. That would have sucked the most.

hahah, I'm glad you like it. I was secretly hoping someone would fall in. It was funny when two people would approach the passage at the same time and yell at each other to get out of the way. I should go snap a picture of it so non-racers see it.

well, that's good to hear.

...

except, I don't drink caffeine either. ha. I really wish i made it. it sounds way to fun to miss again.

we would have given you a mouthful of dirt/sand!

i'm ****ing scared ****less of water, too. i was sure that i was going to be ****ing rocking some wet panties... everyone should be thankful that those ****ers didn't become translucent.

YEAH!

can't be much worse than a dry bag of tea.

i can't believe you suckers actually do the checkpoint tasks.
i make a habit of getting a task from one checkpoint person and then telling the other i did it to get the credit for not doing smack. it worked at checkpoint 1. (It always works at checkpoint 1 because of the crowds that all get there at the same time. It takes a little more skill to make it fly later in the race, but i've gotten good at it.)

checkpoint 1: told to do 2 laps. did 1/2 around the monument thingey to find the other friendly volunteer to tell him i had completed my task.
checkpoint 1.5: watch the guy in front of me roll over the hood of a car and his bike fly 5' into the air. call 911. trap the driver. make police report. repair bike. ride to yojimbo's. get stuff and ride stuff back to Ben.
checkpoint 1.75: drink it off at the Gold Star. try to fend off CreepyGuyAtTheBar. Discuss recovering costs from driver.
finish.

sketchville.

so what you're saying is you a lying, cheating ****er who takes advantage of people who are doing you a favor by putting together a race for you to ride in?

awesome. you shouldn't say **** like that. at the very least, you shouldn't brag about doing it habitually.

dude, chill. just being goofy. goddamn interweb.

I can't believe you didn't finish the race!

i am chill, baby. ice cold.

Sorry to hear about the accident and such. Now that, that is out of the way,

I totally understand cheating to win,... if you have any chance of winning.

That's part of the way the game is played. But I imagine that maybe 10% of people who were there had any chance of winning and they know who they were/are.

For the rest of us (obviously, myself included) the race was recreation and being a recreation activity you are free to do what ever you want. But myself, I just don't understand the appeal of cheating to get 24th as opposed to 26th place in a race.

I didn't cheat and I did get 24th!

We were suposed to eat the teabags??? eeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!
Of course I say that and had to stop after checkpoint 5 to eat a
granola bar to get the aweful baccardi taste from my mouth, well
either that or relive that shot backwards!

i did finish.
just, i only hit one checkpoint.