Sunday, August 22, 2010

Urban Dare Long Beach Winners


Thank you to everyone who participated in Urban Dare Long Beach.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Epstein & Kimberly Gimenez for winning the first Urban Dare Long Beach.

Tony and Chris Vaca took second and third place honors went to
Mark Dressner & Shayna Howitt.

Also pictured is the First Family team of Andrew, Yedid & John Stanton

Here are the top 5 finishers:

1:44:37 - Elizabeth Epstein & Kimberly Gimenez - Long Beach Dutch Girls
1:49:06 - Tony Vaca & Chris Vaca - The Skeleton Crew
1:52:09 - Mark Dressner & Shayna Howitt - The I1's
1:52:21 - Kim Newport & Rob Papandrea - Team Papy
1:57:38 - Cindy Carlson & Jason Watanabe - ohana

Monday, August 16, 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Urban Dare Long Beach - Sunday, August 22


Urban Dare Long Beach runs Sunday, August 22. We will kickoff at Noon. The race will start and finish at Panama Joe's at 5100 E 2nd St.

Race-day check-in will begin at 11:00am and we will be taking registration up to the start of the race.

This year we are relaxing our rule on having to wear Urban Dare shirts. If you have team costumes/uniforms, you may wear those. Otherwise, you must wear the Urban Dare shirts, which you will receive at check-in. We will have a $50 prize for the best costume.

You should bring a cell phone and a digital camera to show your pictures at the end of the race. A cell phone camera will work. Maps are also handy and you should have someone to call to help look up clues. I also recommend a pen or pencil to take notes.

Urban Dare, www.urbandare.com, is the race where smarts can beat speed. Teams of 2 solve clues to find checkpoints where they must take photos or perform dares.

Once you are out of the starting blocks, you will pick up your clue sheets and be on your way. You can call friends as much as you want for help on clues. For the checkpoints that mention a dare, you must check in with the Urban Dare official, accomplish your task, and get your passport stamped before moving on. On checkpoints that mention a photo, you must get a photo with both team members to show you were both there.

This is a team race. You must be together throughout the race. You may walk, run or use public transportation to get to checkpoints.

At checkpoints with dares, you must accomplish a task and get your passport stamped to move on to the next checkpoint. Dares range from throwing a bulls-eye, doing a climbing wall, completing a puzzle or eating something (things people like, not bugs).

We expect the winners will finish the race in about 2 hours and most of you will finish under 4 hours. We are working to provide a fun-filled day for you, while providing some good challenges.

We now have a family division. I've always allowed kids to race with their parents, but never made an official division. Family divisions can be three or four people and must have one person 16 or under.

See you at the race.

Saturday, August 07, 2010

Pacific Beach by Bike Winners


Thank you to everyone who participated in the first Urban Dare by Bike.

Congratulations to debi & Tom Preece who finished in first place, by making their bulls-eye ahead of second place Wendy Hoier & Yolande Hamilton.

Noelle Espinosa, Brian Burgess , Nicole Burgess & Mika Burgess took third place overall and won the family division.

Here are the top 5 finishers of Urban Dare PB by Bike:

2:24:15 AM - Debi Preece & Tom Preece - Preece
2:25:35 AM - Wendy Hoier & Yolande Hamilton - Red Bra No Panties
2:56:12 AM - Noelle Espinosa, Brian Burgess , Nicole Burgess & Mika Burgess - Devil Cats
3:07:16 AM - Brian Poffenberger & Clint Reed - Village Idiots
3:07:25 AM - Mari Rago & Jeff Rago - RAGO'S RULE