Seattle Uptown Street Scramble
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Comments: We did an excellent job staying together. The rules are that you must stay together at all times; one person can't run ahead and locate the information. You have to be within sight of the other person and you must meet up at the location. Being such good little children, we even visited a location that I knew the answer to. We'd happened to drive past an excavation site on the way in and for whatever reason I'd noted the name of the company doing the excavation (Essex Pacific). But the spirit of the race is to visit each place, not to get the answers right. We made only one mistake; we overran a water fountain in Myrtle Edwards Park. We assumed it was out by the Happy Hooker (a place by the fishing pier that sells food and beverages and fishing stuff in the summer), but it wasn't. We wasted about five minutes out there and could have hit at least three more place if we hadn't made an assumption! We caught it on the way back in. Otherwise we located every location quickly thanks to Roy's master orienteering skills! We were pretty sure we weren't going to make it back in time, but we BARELY squeaked in according to my watch. It was enough to take first place in our division. What would you do differently?: Not take the bike path in Myrtle Edwards Park. Otherwise we navigated perfectly! Post race
Warm down: We returned and scarfed down some orange slices. Even though we only ran 7.5 miles, it was hard miles because of the hills! What limited your ability to perform faster: Rain, hills, stopping to answer questions, traffic lights. Event comments: This is one of those events that is just plain fun. It is very family friendly and really doable for all ages and physical activity levels. You can run, walk, or ride your bike to compete. The time flies as you run from place to place. Post race meal is always awesome. This time it was hot dogs (cooked by yours truly), lots of fresh fruit, and lots of soda and water. For the $15 entry fee you get a great time and a full meal deal. You can't beat that! Last updated: 2005-07-02 12:00 AM
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Had a breakfast cookie for breakfast and drove in to Seattle. We got our map about 7:50 and looked it over, laying out our plan for the next 90 minutes. Caught my satellite and got ready to go!
Maps are passed out 20 minutes prior to the start of the race. Since we were volunteering to make lunch we came early to do the scramble on our own so we could cook while the other teams were on the course. The map is a USGS map with 30 different circles numbered on the map. There are no street names, and very few things identified on the map. Using orienteering (or a really good sense of direction), you try to visit as many sights as you can in either 90 or 180 minutes. We were doing the 90 minute and running. (You can also bike.)