City Chase 2009
The 2009 City Chase Series comes to San Diego
By MICHELLE WAYLAND
Updated 6:56 AM PST, Mon, Jun 22, 2009
If you were downtown Saturday you may have spotted some people doing some pretty wacky things like (almost) naked bowling, kissing strangers, stripping down to their underwear, making human pyramids, getting into cop cars and drawing tattoos on each other.
The 2009 City Chase Series kicked off in the morning, setting the stage for “The World’s Largest Urban Adventure Series”.
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The event is part scavenger hunt, part obstacle course, part urban adventure race and promises to push you out of your comfort zone. The challenges are designed to test mind, body and spirit.
Teams run, walk, crawl (and use the trolley) to navigate their way throughout the city, while phoning a friend for help, using the Internet, etc.
Teams of two had to complete at least 10 of 20 ChasePoints. The different Chase Points were scattered throughout downtown. The teammates had to figure out riddles and then complete different challenges at each ChasePoint.
Once they have 10 ChasePoints punched then they had to get to the finish point at the House of Blues.
One of the ChasePoints was the NBC studios at 225 Broadway. Chasers had to take 7 out of 10 of the below photos and get them validated.
- A human pyramid of 6, with one teammate on top of the pyramid.
- One teammate being kissed by a complete stranger.
- One member pedaling a bike cab and the other sitting inside the cab.
- Both teammates holding an animal.
- A City Chase arrow in green drawn on some part of the body on both chasers.
- A complete stranger wearing your City Chase outfit, and you wearing the stranger’s outfit.
- One member helping the homeless (i.e. donation, food etc.)
- A picture of one chaser inside a police car.
- A picture of City Chase President, Jason Erkes at the start line.
- One member holding a baseball mitt or bat in front of Petco Park.
The event made for some interesting photos. A man and a woman (complete strangers) decided to exchange shorts. The only problem – she wears small and he wears large.
“My clothes are a lot tighter on him than his are on me, for sure,” Scarlett O’Hara said laughing.
Mac Fouos struggled his way back out of O’Hara’s shorts and looked a little relieved when he got his back.
“Mine are easier to put on, let’s put it that way,” Fouos said. “They were a little tight.”
Fous said his team was lagging a little bit, but they were trying to catch up.
“We only have three points because we ran like all over the place trying to find some pyramid and it was not what we were looking for,” he said.
One guy who was doing well was an enterprising homeless man who had nothing to do with the competition. He figured out one of the tasks was to donate to a homeless person so he found the NBC ChasePoint and hung around for a while.
“He was making bank,” Jennifer Levine said. “He was chilling out here and he knew what was going on after a while so he was just walking around so he got a lot of food and a lot of money.”
The first team to complete the required "ChasePoints" and cross the finish line advances to the North American Championship in Quebec City, Quebec.
City Chase is partnering with The Stay Classy Foundation, which serves the San Diego community through a series of events like the recent Elemental Experience festival.
First Published: May 31, 2009 2:10 PM PST
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