Team Profile: Lefty and Skinny

Mark Benson and Jason Sheard of Lefty and Skinny

The team profile for another team has been posted over on the teams page.  This time, it’s Lefty and Skinny.  Check out their vitals over at the teams page: teams

Add comment | June 21st, 2008 at 09:26pm by Mark Teskey

Team Profile: Team Southern Fuego

Gerardo Rojas and Glenn Jackson from Team Southern Fuego

The profile from our competitors from the deep south – Team Southern Fuego – has been posted on the teams page.  Check it out right here: teams

Add comment | June 21st, 2008 at 08:55pm by Mark Teskey

Team Profile: Team C4

Team C4 (Steve Sheldon and Dan Reichstadt) have their profile up on the teams page located right here: teams

1 comment | June 20th, 2008 at 03:22pm by Mark Teskey

Team Profile: XLR-99

The team profile for XLR-99 is up on our teams page located right HERE: teams

1 comment | June 20th, 2008 at 02:47pm by Mark Teskey

Do you dare to guess??

(see the teams page for team rosters)

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2 comments | June 19th, 2008 at 09:28pm by erik

Team Profiles!

We’re starting to update the team profiles..  first up, Team 0xDEADBEEF!

Their profile: 0xDEADBEEF

All team profiles: Team Profiles

Keep watching this space over the next couple of days for more profiles!

Add comment | June 19th, 2008 at 03:02pm by Mark Teskey

How do I win prizes if I’m not racing?

Just like the Christmas party, we’ve got literally thousands of dollars in prizes purchased for non-racers.  How you win them will be a little different.  Let me give you a little hint..

Here’s how it will work.  Prior to the race kickoff, everybody that wants to be in on the prize drawings will submit the name of their favorite team.  Your name will go in a ‘hat’ with everyone else that is betting on that team.

At each checkpoint, if your team arrives first – we draw from your team’s ‘hat’ for a prize (or prizes).  The more checkpoints your teams hit first, the more chances you have to WIN!  There are some rules, of course.  Nobody will be allowed to win more than one prize.  Racers are not allowed to win the checkpoint prizes.  Finally, if there are no more remaining names in a hat – we’ll go to the 2nd place hat.  That could happen if a long shot overachieves.

We’ll announce how to submit your team in the coming days.  Until then – start handicapping!

Add comment | June 19th, 2008 at 02:08pm by Mark Teskey

Minneathlon 2.0 update

It’s been a few days since we’ve had an update here – but the planning team has been hard at work getting ready for Minneathlon 2.0  We’ve got a number of updates for everyone:

1. An official start time has been set – 8:30 AM CDT is the official kickoff.  Like Minneathlon 1.0, the race will start and end on 4th Floor of the Minneapolis office.
2. We’ve got a route set!  First walkthroughs of the route show that it’s 8.75 miles long – and it took us just over three hours at a walking pace.  We didn’t do the challenges, but we also did a lot of wandering and scouting.  We also didn’t run – so there’s opportunity for improvement…
3. There have been several questions about modes of transportation.  The rules will be the same as those for Minneathlon 1.0.  The only allowable modes of transportation will be foot, bus, or train.  Everything not explicitly permitted is not allowed, no exceptions.
4. Technology is legal.  Just be sure not to rely on it too much – remember, LCD’s are sometimes VERY hard to read in bright sunlight!  Also – don’t always assume that you’ll have a good view of the sky.
5. Please try to minimize impact on billable resources during the race.  If you must call somebody billable, please try to minimize the impact.
6. There may be items in the race where non-participants are forbidden from assisting or interfering.  Please respect that whether racer or non-racer.
7. The race will be held rain or shine.  In the event of severe weather, we’ll make a call at race time as to how we are going to proceed.   You should assume it could be 100, sunny and humid – or it could be 40 and rainy.  In other words – bring rain gear if it looks like rain!
8. Plan to bring fluid out on the route.  The winter racers sweated a LOT – and it was near zero that day.  If it’s a 100 degree day, you will need fluid.

That’s all for now – official rules will be distributed in the race packets.

Add comment | June 19th, 2008 at 01:22pm by Mark Teskey

Need your help suggesting prizes

For Minneathlon 1.0, we gave away iPod Touches and iPod 3G Nanos for the race prizes and many other door prizes such as GPS units, external hard drives, cameras, etc.

We’d love input on what we should give away for Minneathlon 2.0 – both for the contestants and door prizes for non-contestants!

We’ve got a pretty good size gift budget – but we want to spread it around a lot.  Also, gifts that require service plans (i.e. cell phones) are tough as well.

Please leave any prize/gift suggestions as a comment to this post.

Thanks,

-us.

9 comments | June 13th, 2008 at 09:13am by Mark Teskey

Minneathlon 2.0 team selections!

The Minneathlon 2.0 planning committee is happy to announce the following field for Minneathlon 2.0 to be held on June 27th, 2008

• Lefty and Skinny (Jason Sheard and Mark Benson)
• XLR-99 (Jemiah Aitch and Jason Braucht)
• 0xDEADBEEF (Mike Scheidnes and Matt Hilden)
• TRYIT (Eugen Feraru and Gary Groven)
• Intern (Matt Nelson and Nick Rydberg)
• C4 (Steve Sheldon and Dan Reichstadt)
• Southern Fuego (Glenn Jackson and Gerardo Rojas)
• Boston Tea Party (Ludy Liu and Cassidy Rehl)

Thanks to everyone who entered – and good luck next time for those that didn’t have luck on their side during the selection process.

Start picking your favorites – fame and fortune – or at least fortune – may depend on it!

Add comment | June 12th, 2008 at 01:55pm by Mark Teskey