SF0 / Ronzer / Journey To The End Of The Night: San Francisco 2009

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Journey To The End Of The Night: San Francisco 2009 by Cole Goeppinger

November 1st, 2009 1:44 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: A Halloween pursuit across San Francisco.

The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it.

For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.No bikes, no cars, just feet and public transportation.

Document your experience.

Norval and I made it through at 7 checkpoints, finishing 11th at 11:20PM. The checkpoints were great, though the Clue game took a while to figure out how to record our facts on the sheet. Octavia and Haight/Divis checkpoints were the worst in terms of chasers, with every entrance/exit filled with milling chasers. We got separated both entering and existing Octavia due to chasers but never got touched. We actually had to run into traffic to avoid the chasers at Divis. The only way we made it to the last checkpoint was to take public transit directly from checkpoint to checkpoint:
24 Divis at Haight (safezone)
transfer at 18th (the Castro was crazy, but no chasers)
33 Stanyan at Valencia (safezone)

I recorded our run using Nike+:
http://nikerunning.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikeplus/en_US/plus/#//runs/detail/605348722/805314751//all/allRuns?sitesrc=fbk_ab_plus

You can see my speed spike from a 60 min/mile to a 5 min/mile as we were chased.