Race day is Saturday September 19th, 2009.
The race officially begins at Jack Purcell Park at 1:00 PM (13:00), but teams must arrive in enough time to check in with organizers.
The race officially ends when the last team drags itself across the finish line at the Elmdale Tavern (1084 Wellington St. West), where there will be an afternoon BBQ and, later in the evening, the Bible All Stars at the O-Town Hoedown (food is covered by your participation fee – booze will cost ya, as will tickets to the concert unless you’re on the overall winning team (who will get in free).
Between Start and Finish you have to register at 2 surprise checkpoints, which will be revealed at Jack Purcell Park just before the starting pistol is fired.
- Your route is your business, so consider bringing a map or bribing a local cab driver or bike courier to be on your team …
An IDIOTAROD team consists of five (5) idiots: one (1) "musher" (who steers the cart from behind the handle-bar) and four (4) "runners" (who run alongside the cart). The same 5 team members have to start, finish, and check in at all checkpoints. Subbing out team members mid-race will result in disqualification.
- The participation fee (you were wondering about that, weren't ya?) is $25/team (or, for those of you basic-math wizards, $5/person).
- All team members must be in contact with the cart at all times. Tying yourself to the cart is acceptable, but it also means that if the cart goes down...
Teams must respect pedestrian and other traffic, and obey public drinking laws, littering laws, etc. Basically – be respectful, upstanding community idiots. Organizers will not be responsible for any trouble you get yourself into (though an arrest for public nudity might get you points… just sayin'.)
Borrowing the sage words of the NYC Idiotarod organizers, Judges have “sole discretion over all points awarded or deducted, prizes awarded, which prizes are being awarded, race rules, all laws of physics, what time it is, and what happened in the past, all of which are subject to change without notice.”
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