No Name 45 Results
February 11th, 2010 | Published in Blargh
Sunday’s No Name 45 street race was a smashing success with a grand total of 3 racers. I had planned assuming that almost no-one would want to race the day after the Stupor Bowl, and with snow coming down I was kind of surprised that anyone showed up. A couple of riders who had inteded to attend backed out, but the race was still on.
The manifest was a list of questions to answer at 7 record stores in the area bounded by Franklin Avenue, Lake Street, Hennepin Avenue, and Nicollet Avenue. My ideal route came out to be somewhere around 8 miles and the finish was at Palmer’s on the West Bank, because I wanted to see Cadillac vs. Cornbread.
As the racers disappeared into the flakes, I rode down the steam plant road through untread snow and emerged onto Bridge #9 after climbing the monster by the coal storage building. While my studded tires whined across the bridge, I saw four sets of sirens up on the Cedar Avenue Bridge, so I doubled back to check it out. They had the bridge blocked, but were almost done clearing an accident. There was a car in the oncoming lane, but no drivers or passengers around, just cops and a tow truck.
I locked up outside of Palmer’s and was a bit disappointed to find that the football game was on, you know, the one that’s the day after the Stupor Bowl. Somebody was winning, I think. I procured a beverage, sat down and prepared for the crush of racers clamoring for the finish.
A few minutes later, some dude started talking to me about basketball, and I sketched out some rough math to see how long it might take people and came up with 45 minutes for the first rider. I wanted to test an iPhone video app called Qik Video, so I started that up and aimed it at the door. Less than a minute later, our winner Alex walked in!
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One minute elapsed before Lando strolled in, sat down and filled out his manifest. Our 3rd Place and DFL winner Robbie arrived another minute later. All three missed the Extreme Noise question, and Robbie had one additional incorrect answer, so the arrival order was correct!
- Alex 0:47 -1
- Lando 0:48 -1
- Robbie 0:49 -2
No Name 45 Official Results
Robbie had to depart, but the remainder of us sat around, had some beers and listened to Cadillac Kolstad, Cornbread Harris, and their band for a while. I took a ton of pictures and some video, and am working on a post about that show. Thanks everyone for coming out, I can’t wait to see what Alex has in store for us for the March No Name!
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