HOLY SHIT

Pre-registration closed

Pre-registration has closed, but you can still register at clark park at 2:00!

see you there!

Everything has pretty much come together, registrants keep trickling in but online registration will close at noon tomorrow. You of course can still register in person at Clark Park at 2:00!

Weather right now says 56 degrees and partly sunny... hope things stay lookin good!

At 1 AM on Friday morning there are 49 people pre-registered.

Beer!

Half of the beer for the party... yeah, thats two kegs in there.

Some prizes!

Three of the five prize bags:






The inside:



The frame pads:



The hip pouches in all their glory"

FLYERS!!!

So... stacks of flyers have been made, I'm going to get out to events like the pretzel ride and critical mass to hand em out, youll probably get sick of me asking if you got one yet, but bear with me.

Email me if you want a stack to help distribute!

Pre-registration

You can now pre-register for the race with a credit card or through paypal. Simply follow the "Pay now" button on the right of this page. If you are in Philly and would like to pay cash, email me(Ricky) to meet up. Pre-registration gets you 100 points (about 1 easy checkpoint's worth of points!)and the choice of a racer #.

If you would like to choose your race#, simply put what number you want in the shipping address field when you pay.(or tell me in person) As long as you register before March 13th you can choose any 5 ASCII characters as your racer number (not only numbers!)

If you have any questions, or want to register in person email me:
Rjoseperez(at)gmail.com

Just to get ya'll a little excited about the grand prize:

(This is not the prize frame, just a current project)

hip pouch sneak peek

A quick preview of one of the 10 hip pouches being given out as prizes

AFTERPARTY

Just met with some people last night and ironed out the details of the afterparty location, seems like a really cool space. There will most likely be a DJ and band(s) in the basement and the awards ceremony/ hangin out upstairs. Anyone who races will get in free, but people who did not race will need to give a $5 donation to Tenderbridge (www.tenderbridge.org) to get in. Again, the party is all you can drink!

Anyone who has a band and wants to play the afterparty let me know via email. We cant pay you, but youll of course race/party for free.

New sponsors and prizes

Just some updates:
Firehouse bikes is kicking in a big prize of some hand-built track wheels , deep-V's to Miche hubs

Satellite Cafe is giving us several of their great carabiner mugs.

race specifics

Just a quick post about the format of the race:

race starts at 2:00-2:30, the after-party(and the finish) will happen three hours after the race starts. You have until then to hand in your manifest. You can do as many or as few checkpoints as you can/wish to, but some will be required in order to be considered for the grand prizes. Also, some checkpoints will only be open for certain periods of time. Each checkpoint is worth a certain amount of points, as are extra tasks. Many checkpoints will have a sliding scale of points based on creativeness/ability to complete the task. There will also be points given out for the order in which you arrive at the finish. There will be many prizes being given out, with the top 20 being given something substantial. We are encouraging people having fun over competitiveness and will be awarding extra points accordingly. It will almost be more of a scavenger hunt than an all out race as you can do the checkpoints in any order you wish.

Additionally, there will be one FAR AWAY checkpoint that is a mini road-race in itself. This will not only be worth a huge amount of points to anyone who makes it there and lives to tell the tale, but the first person to successfully complete the riddle encased thereupon will receive a major prize.

The Manifest is shaping up... there are currently 40 checkpoints and its growing!
Email me if you want to help out with a checkpoint and ill put you on the list.

List of prizes so far:
Built to fit track frame
5 large Messenger bags
10 hip pouches
10 top tube pads
3 custom print cycling caps
Full size race posters

Top 20 finishers (by points) will win a prize among other categerories including:
First female
DFL
Craziest mofo
Will smith look alike
First tandem team

Official flyer(without sponsors)