{"id":1825,"date":"2010-03-10T04:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2010-03-12T05:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T05:18:05","slug":"urban-dare-or-where-is-the-spirit-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/urban-dare-or-where-is-the-spirit-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Dare, or Where is the Spirit of Learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, as part of my birthday celebration happy fun time, we signed up for the Urban Dare<\/a> in Austin.\u00a0 I’ve wanted to do it the last few years, but it’s pretty expensive.\u00a0 This year, I said, fuck it, it’s my birthday.\u00a0 I’m not going on vacation, I’m not staying in a hotel, I’m going to do SOMETHING fun, so this was it.<\/p>\n

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The weather was perfect as we rolled up to Mother Egans Pub at around 11:30.\u00a0 We got in line, signed our waver, changed into our spiffy shirts, and waited around a few minutes for noon to get there.\u00a0 Finally, we were told to go down the block to a field, and we had to play multiple choice trivia until we got it right.\u00a0 We happened to be in the right spot even though we didn’t know the answer, and we got our clue sheet and were off.<\/p>\n

And by off, I mean to the parking lot in the field furiously getting through the clue sheet using our phones to google all the clues and find the most efficient way around.\u00a0 Where we spent the first 20-30 minutes.\u00a0 Next time, we might spend a little less time prepping and just run and google at the same time.\u00a0 Once we had all but one mapped out, we set out for the furthest north, with a quick stop on the way that was right up the street.<\/p>\n

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Clue #11 – Who dat – who dat – who dat gonna beat dem Saints? Nobody this year. Get your picture with a VW that has been transformed into a Saints helmet. (That would be the Shoal Creek Saloon, a place we’ve actually always wanted to visit – they are supposed to have GREAT food).<\/p>\n

Then, on the way, we ran into a woman with a puppy, so we knocked this one out.\u00a0 This lady was nice enough to stop but her dog really didn’t want to cooperate with crazy strangers wanting him to shake!<\/p>\n

#5a – Get your picture shaking hands with a dog.<\/p>\n

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Clue #3 – DOUBLE JEOPARDY – First, get your picture in front of the store that rhymes with Roy Boy, and has the same amount of letters. Second – you much purchase 1 item and bring it back to the end of the race with your receipt. We bought a pretty little 20 cent marble.<\/p>\n

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We purchased our marble, got our pic snapped, and were on our way.\u00a0 This was about 2 1\/4 miles from the start.\u00a0 Next, we hit the nearest clue, just down the street.<\/p>\n

Clue #8 – He first visited Yosemite National Park in 1916 with his family, where his father gave him his first camera, a Kodac Brownie Box Camera.\u00a0 He is world renown for his black and white photos of Yosemite and other major parks of the west.\u00a0 Go to the park with his last name for your golfing challenge.\u00a0 Fore! (Adams Park)<\/p>\n

Here, we had to throw these two golf ball things around hurdles.\u00a0 We both sucked pretty hard at it, but I sucked less, so after about 10 minutes I finished and we moved on.\u00a0 We took a bit of a detour getting there so it was about 3\/4 mile here.\u00a0 Then we headed to campus to get the next picture.<\/p>\n

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Clue #10 – She said, “Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.” Get your picture with her statue (Barbara Jordan). Campus was WAY, WAY crowded that day with lots of kids, it was a lot of dodging and weaving because they were all taking their sweet time.<\/p>\n

We continued around campus and finally found some people willing to help us with 5b:<\/p>\n

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#5b – get a picture of someone NOT in the race doing a cartwheel.\u00a0 Someone we had asked before about signing a waiver or suing us if they got hurt or some crap.\u00a0 Seriously people?\u00a0 Thought I left California, ya know, the land of palm trees and frivolous litigation?<\/p>\n

By the time we left campus we were closing in on 4.5 miles.\u00a0 We had a crossroads – head southeast and hit the furthest east stuff first and backtrack a little north later when we headed west, or head straight south and have to backtrack a bit the other way.\u00a0 We decided to head east, so off we went.\u00a0 However, we had just gotten the 411 on the clue we couldn’t figure it out before (yay for nice people) so we stopped here:<\/p>\n

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Clue #7 – get your picture with the spirit of learning. Yeah, this one was freaking HARD to find.\u00a0 It was in front of some teacher’s union building or something.\u00a0 Did NOT show up on google at ALL.<\/p>\n

We actually went a little too far east after that, and had to backtrack, but soon we appeared here:<\/p>\n

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Clue #1 – 59 year old Brent L. found a stash of dynamite in a shed on his 5000 acre ranch. Concerned for his family’s safety but not his own, the rancher removed the dynamite from the shed, placed it in a field of knee high grass, backed away about forty yards, and fired a shotgun at it. The dynamite blew up and the shrapnel hit the rancher in the head. The man was air lifted to the hospital, where he passed away. They give annual awards for this type of feat. Get your picture in front of the Pub that goes by this award’s name. (I did not even have to google this one thank you very much.)\u00a0 I believe we were probably about 6 1\/2 miles here.<\/p>\n

Next we headed on to the Austin Music Hall to take care of the next task.\u00a0 Clue #6 was… Go to Killer Riffs for your bubble dare.\u00a0 We had envisioned something like having to get in those big plastic bubbles or blow big bubbles with those life sized wands…nope.\u00a0 One of us just had to cover a piece of gum in whipped cream, get it out without using our hands, and blow a bubble.\u00a0 I did it because after more than 7 miles – hey – a little sugar sounded good.\u00a0 Whip cream nommed, bubble blown, we headed onto the last leg.<\/p>\n

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Clue #2 – go to city hall and get your picture with the stinger.\u00a0 Didn’t have any clue what this was before we got there, but it was EXTREMELY apparent once we approached it.\u00a0 We found some people on the way to our next dare that said they were taking it down soon so we decided to run the next leg – probably about a quarter of a mile.
\nClue #4 – Go to Woolridge square where you must perform 2 dares.\u00a0 Well, we found Woolridge square, but it had been FRESHLY MANURED that day so it stunk like no other.\u00a0 I felt really sorry for the volunteers assigned to that station all day.\u00a0 The first thing we had to do was a wheelbarrow course – I volunteered to be the wheelbarrow, and was very glad for all the arm and core strength I’ve been working on lately, I didn’t even have to stop.\u00a0 Then, we had to run around and find little markers with letters and numbers on them, and had to find the ones that corresponded to the letters in our word.\u00a0 We got that done and headed on our way, breathing a sigh of relief…and actually fully breathing again because it didn’t literally smell like shit.<\/p>\n

We noticed it was getting close to 4pm – which was 4 hours in.\u00a0 We decided we wanted to finish before 4 hours so we decided to run the last legs.\u00a0 We ran about another quarter of a mile and hit up the last stop:<\/p>\n

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Clue #9 – ROMAN MATH TIME: Get your picture with the orange and purple sculpture at XXXIV times XXIV Congress Street. (816)\u00a0 This is my yaaaaaay we finished pose.\u00a0 No time to celebrate though- we commenced with the running, about another quarter mile, and rolled up at Mother Egan’s again with a finish time of 3:59 and some change.\u00a0 Hooray!<\/p>\n

Then, there may have been some hard cider and chips with curry.<\/p>\n

Total miles walked\/ran: 8.62<\/p>\n

Fastest speed: 7.3 mph<\/p>\n

It was a lot of fun, I do believe we are going to do it again next year, try to run more of it together, and come up with some creative costumes like these gals, who won the contest.<\/p>\n

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Next up for races – 5k up in Georgetown (the little local 1 dollar entry fee one) next Saturday, and then Warrior Dash <\/a>May 2.\u00a0 Yay for 3 races in a row WITH Zliten!\u00a0 Have you ever done an adventure race?<\/p>\n

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