50 + 25 points
Journey To The End Of The Night by Michael Whelpley
June 29th, 2006 11:02 AM
(rough copy for now)
-Signed up with all the other Journeymen/women at the Embarcadero, and downed a tallboy to warm up. This turned out to be a bad idea 5 minutes into the race, when my pack started getting chased. Luckily, I'm still able to run in short bursts before my tar-coated lungs begin to burn me.
-Hit the first few stops without major incident; then we approached the checkpoint at It's Tops. When we spotted purple ribboned chasers approaching from all directions and modes of transit (foot, bike, go-kart), we just sprinted to the safety zone. Only half of us made it, but we waited around a few minutes to give them a chance. While waiting for the F line to get out of there, we noticed some new chasers: our less fleet-of-foot companions. At this point, I decided to abandon team tactics, and become a ninja.
-Getting to the next spot (the pool hall) was pretty easy, aside from one guy I had to evade using my hide-in-shadows skill. On the Geary bus, I spotted some more blue ribbons, and joined on with them.
-Escaping this stop was a little tricky: I ran off on a side street, while the others took a bus i the opposite direction. I thought I'd lost them, but they turned up on the 43 bus I had mentioned earlier. We ride it to the south side of GG park, and stealthily approach the memorial grove through the woods. This turned out to be unneccesary, as we didn't spot any chasers the whole way. Still, the park is creepy enough at night to provide a few thrills.
-Same deal on the way to the last checkpoint, and on to the beach.
-Signed up with all the other Journeymen/women at the Embarcadero, and downed a tallboy to warm up. This turned out to be a bad idea 5 minutes into the race, when my pack started getting chased. Luckily, I'm still able to run in short bursts before my tar-coated lungs begin to burn me.
-Hit the first few stops without major incident; then we approached the checkpoint at It's Tops. When we spotted purple ribboned chasers approaching from all directions and modes of transit (foot, bike, go-kart), we just sprinted to the safety zone. Only half of us made it, but we waited around a few minutes to give them a chance. While waiting for the F line to get out of there, we noticed some new chasers: our less fleet-of-foot companions. At this point, I decided to abandon team tactics, and become a ninja.
-Getting to the next spot (the pool hall) was pretty easy, aside from one guy I had to evade using my hide-in-shadows skill. On the Geary bus, I spotted some more blue ribbons, and joined on with them.
-Escaping this stop was a little tricky: I ran off on a side street, while the others took a bus i the opposite direction. I thought I'd lost them, but they turned up on the 43 bus I had mentioned earlier. We ride it to the south side of GG park, and stealthily approach the memorial grove through the woods. This turned out to be unneccesary, as we didn't spot any chasers the whole way. Still, the park is creepy enough at night to provide a few thrills.
-Same deal on the way to the last checkpoint, and on to the beach.
