I Guess This Explains All The “Entrance To Queensborough Bridge Walkway” Search Referrers We Got Last Week
You know you’re getting old when this just doesn’t sound like fun anymore:
Posted: February 1st, 2009 | Filed under: Bah! Humbug!“Idiots, start your engines!”
That’s what hundreds of contestants heard Saturday at the start of New York’s sixth annual Idiotarod — a local take on Alaska’s Iditarod dog-sled race that replaces dogs with people, and sleds with shopping carts.
Teams of four runners and one driver navigate homemade carts from checkpoint to checkpoint along a mystery route only revealed as the race goes on via text messages. Organizers say the map is kept secret by design in order to keep police from intervening along the way.
An NYPD helicopter hovered above the starting line at E. 60th St. and York Ave. and it followed teams across the Queensboro Bridge to the first checkpoint at Queensbridge Park.
“We just crossed the Queensboro Bridge in a shopping cart!” yelled Floyd Olson, 19, a Tufts University student who came to to the city for the competition.
