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Loves Ketchup (son of Teriyaki Donut) 690 points/16.9 miles

Submitted by ewalkup on Tue, 2008-04-29 05:05.

"Loves Ketchup" is Emmett's new team name. He has all but grown out of "Maybe He'll Nap" (though I think he almost nodded off).

Emmett and I covered almost 17 miles for 690 points at 20 checkpoints. Route followed was 34-21-35-53-37-41-42-56-57-47-31-45-32-46-24-23-56-13-44-36

Highlights:

  • Once again, having lived at the South end of Ravenna Park pays off -- I knew I could cover most of the ground from 21 to 35 by following the old streetcar line. Knowledge of the UW was also great for planning a gradual ascent for 46-24-23-56.
  • As I was climbing up Meridian hill Southbound from Greenlake, a trio of women out for a walk saw me huffing by. "Way to go," says one of them, "Take that baby out for a spin!"

    A deep, authoritative voice emanates from the depths of the trailer "I'm not a baby!".

  • I had email in my inbox this morning from a family who came to this event for the first time. They're hooked and will be back again!

Mistakes:

  • I really need a map carrying solution. I wasted a lot of time not being able to glance at my map while en route. Time to get creative with old 3-ring binders.
  • I totally mucked it up trying to get into Meridian playground. I completely forgot about the Southern approach and wasted plenty of time trying to get into the park. D'oh!
  • My route was a little too ambitious -- I wasn't able to hit all of my "sweep at the end" checkpoints. Had I not gone for checkpoint 47 (far South mailbox), I would have been able to more than make up the difference.

Thanks, everyone, for another fun and exhausting Street Scramble!

-- Elizabeth

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Map carrying solution

Submitted by brian on Tue, 2008-04-29 05:57.

Elizabeth,

I don't know if you've looked at my solution to the map/answer sheet problem, but this works great for me:

I have a handlebar bag that clips on to a bracket that mounts in the middle of the handlebars. I then use a clipboard, put the answer sheet on the bottom and clip it down with binder clips and the put the map on top, with one binder clip along the top to keep it from flapping in the wind. I then rubber band the clipboard to the handlebar bag (rubber bands over the answer sheet, but under the map). I stuck a piece of velcro on the clipboard and a pencil so I always have a pencil ready. The map's on top and I can quickly look at it while stopped and I can kind of look at it while riding. It's easy to flip up at each checkpoint to read and circle the answers.

We also try to grab extra maps for Cameron and Corinne. We zip-tied plastic 8-1/2x11 sleeves onto the handlebars of their trailers and we fold the maps so that they can read the descriptions and questions to us. This works okay--they say they can't read them while we're moving (too bumpy I guess), but they can usually get to them faster than me unclipping the map to read it myself.

brian

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