real change is the new 1617 yale Anything and everything .83 Seattle

[lantius]

damn i am sick, and shouldn't have raced, but i still had a good time anyhow. fresh socks and pants to change into would have been worth their weight in gold.

i made some bad navigational decisions, and eventually i was getting confused about where i was going and what i was doing. apologies to everyone who was followin' me; just because i acted authoritative doesn't mean i actually know jack shit.

only 10.75 miles but it felt like alot more while hunting for locations and climbing broad street twice from the waterfront. plus i was already feeling like crap. but those are all excuses, see if you can look at my route and figure out the <a href="http://urlx.org/gmap-pedometer.com/653c">real reason i lost</a>.

i gotta get a better map and learn the downtown core better.

[langston]

[Jace]

I started by going up capital hill. Then around to the Stranger and Times. I kept running into langston. My downfall is that I was cold and kept stopping. I made the dumb mistake of checking Colman dock for auto trader, with no luck I found a real change from some homeless guy under the pergola. Then I couldn’t find the 2nd ave drop box. Way to go langston!!!

I had

[langston]

oh. Here's my route. 6.87 miles. Less than three blocks of deadheading.

http://tinyurl.com/a5e3j

[seaden]

I didn't go but did you guys experience the soggy snow at all? it was coming down pretty heavily up on caphill...crazy!

[Seth]

[joeball]

My race report


I was soaked less than 5 minutes after leaving my house to go to the race. I guess it snowed on cap hill that night . It was pretty crazy trying to keep your manifest dry/in one piece as well as slips of paper we got at the stops.

http://tinyurl.com/84qmf

My route was something like this, I was 7or8th in order of arrival. I took off from the start and headed up to cap hill, Seth and Daniel headed the same way but left me in the dust. Rob32 (1st to finish ) and I climbed up Pike St and went to the Stranger checkpoint. Somehow Daniel and Seth showed up to the check point at the same time as I did. We went to down pike to the confused book stop and then to the Times stop, then down denny to PI.

Again they left me in the dust but somehow I arrived at the PI before them and headed back towards the Weekly stop. We looked for the 2nd avenue dropbox and then I hadn't gotten the the garage height or Real Change. I doubled back to the garage then to all of the QA grocery stores, Rob32 was up there looking for RC also, no luck. I came back an turned in my manifest sans a real change.

langston came in the middle of the pack in terms of arrival time but obviously was the first with a complete manifest. I think it is good he was given the rightful title of 1st. After that the prizes went to the people in order of arrival which worked in my favor but I think it sucked for those that spent a long time looking for a real change to complete the manifest.

I won a campy belt buckle, it's pretty hawt, check out howmuch the set of three is going for!!! I got the round one on the left.
http://www.branfordbike.com/gifts/gift3.html#item3

[jillita]

[lieutenantsean]

[jillita]