Urban Dare Philadelphia - Sat, October 3

Urban Dare Philadelphia begins Saturday, October 3 at Double Shots espresso bar at 211 Chestnut St.

Race-day check-in will begin at 11:00am and we will be taking registration up to the start of the race. Proceeds from the race will go towards the fight against breast cancer.

Our first place teams from the 2009 series win a 3-day Caribbean Cruise, where they will compete in the first ever Super Dare. Racers will compete on the boat, and at our 2 ports of call. It will be 3 days of fun and games on the last weekend of February 2010. Super Dare winners will receive $5,000.

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.

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.

See you at the race.

Urban Dare Oklahoma City top teams

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first ever Urban Dare Oklahoma City.

Congratulations to Priscilla Ferguson & Sarah Paxson of Playing with Fire for coming in first with a time of 1:33:01. They came in 2nd place in May's Dallas race, and came up here determined to win the Super Dare race.

Terri Taylor & Mitch Ruzzoli came in second and third place honors went to Micah McCarty & Justin Fortney.

The Chisums were the first family to finish.

Some people thought I was being tricky by asking people to tell me at the finish how many people were in the red sculpture at the Bank of America building. Originally this clue was going to send you to the Land Run Monument and it would have been fun to have you count all the people depicted in that. When I ran the routes, I discovered this would have made the race a little too long. So I changed the checkpoint to the red sculpture and meant to have you count the number of pieces in it. For those of you who are curious, there are 14 pieces in the sculpture.

We are looking forward to growing the race next year.

Here are the top five teams of Urban Dare Oklahoma City:

1:33:01 - Priscilla Ferguson & Sarah Paxson -Playing with Fire
1:45:45 - Terry Taylor & Mtich Ruzzoli -Team MeOk
1:49:56 - micah McCarty & justin fortney -McFortney
1:51:56 - wendy gabrielson & dana vance -metro chicks
2:09:19 - Sean Fleming & Crissy Fleming -The Texas Two Step

Urban Dare San Antonio Winners

Thank you to everyone who came out for Urban Dare San Antonio.

Congratulations to Thomas Lane & Spencer Conklin of the Werewolves who came in first with a time of 1:41:25.

Jason Mittman and his father Mike Koranek could have come in first, but they have already qualified for the Super Dare cruise. They waited until the first place team finished and then they stepped across the line to take second place.

Third place honors go to Roberto Gonzalez & Matthew Belver of the Inglourious Basterds. The first family team was Margaret Brown, Brian Arellano, Eric Arellano & Marc Arellano of Brier Marmar.

Here are the top 5 finishers of Urban Dare San Antonio:

1:41:25 - Thomas Lane & Spencer Conklin - Werewolves
1:41:47 - Jason Mittman & Mike Koranek - Father and Son
1:58:32 - Roberto Gonzalez & Matthew Belver - The Inglourious Basterds
2:03:15 - Russ Gifford & Shannon Davis - Kneeling Disciples
2:06:02 - Ravae Shaeffer & Casey Shaeffer - Two Aggies Running

Urban Dare San Antonio - Sat, Sep 19

Urban Dare San Antonio begins Saturday, September 19 at Noon at Waxy O'Connor's on the Riverwalk.

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

Our first place teams from the 2009 series win a 3-day Caribbean Cruise, where they will compete in the first ever Super Dare. Racers will compete on the boat, and at our 2 ports of call. It will be 3 days of fun and games on the last weekend of February 2010. Super Dare winners will receive $5,000.

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.

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.

See you at the race.

Urban Dare San Francisco Winners

Thank you to everyone who participated in Urban Dare San Francisco.

Congratulations to Martin Dent & Colby Leno of Taintastic! who won with a time of 1:37:57. We now have 18 teams that have won the Super Dare cruise.

Second place went to Paula Kwok & Jason Jung of the Clowns and third place honors go to kat walsh & paul bixenstine.

Christina Corley, Cristian Porter, Katie Klug & Brandon Klug of the Fearless Four won the First Family. Well done.

My favorite checkpoint was human structures where you had to count the number of human forms in the sculpture. Almost all teams correctly counted 62 of them. Only about 12 teams got their picture with an acupuncture doll.

We will let you know when our videos come out from the race footage. We'll put something up on the site, but more importantly we will now have something to show to the channels we've been talking with about turning Urban Dare into a traveling reality show. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

Here are the 5 finishers of Urban Dare San Francisco:

1:37:57 AM - Martin Dent & Colby Leno - Taintastic!
2:00:43 AM - Paula Kwok & Jason Jung - The Clowns
2:13:45 AM - kat walsh & paul bixenstine - 261
2:28:34 AM - Clint Thomas & Ben Voiles - The Hustlehoff's
2:34:15 AM - Milena Basile & Matthew Mast - Ah-Man!