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200km London bike race, around that roundabout that goes by Big Ben and the Parliament Building. Timer chips will be required and will count the number of laps. Participation is limited by the number of bicycles that can fit in the roundabout. Strategies include pushing your way to
the middle for the shortest distance ride, and riding on the outside to avoid the crowds.
20km San Francisco hill climb, up the twisty part of Lombard Street, down the stairs.
10km Venetian canal swim. Nose clip required.
(This idea inspired by a tiny turning circle near my house. I was on my way to map out a 3 mile running route, and wondered if I should save time and just run around the turning circle some number of times. Adding a mass of people for a race seemed appropriately ridiculous for this place.)
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The bike race one would be good to watch - but only speeded up with the benny hill music playing over it. |
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The Golden Gate pogo sprint? |
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Wacky Races, all over again. |
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the Big Dig skateboard fest... |
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//the Big Dig skateboard fest// with
flying leaps over falling concrete tunnel
segments |
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The Big Dig race is more suitable to be digitised for a video game. |
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Surely the Big Dig is better suited for surfing? |
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Look kids, it's Big Ben... Parliament... |
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Dodge Monaco racing: Lower Wacker Drive. |
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Mini Cooper Racing: Palazzo a Vela and sewer pipes. |
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Freefall speeding / gliding / navigating a balloon-suspended course... |
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I built parts for the Big Dig (in a fab shop here in Maine,
not onsite), and I can assure you that while it may be
surfable under optimum conditions, this is most definitely
not advised. It contains some very hard and utterly
immovable structures that were built by a welder who
really gets into his work. |
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Skating, maybe. I understand protruding metal objects are
very popular with skateboarders. |
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//that roundabout// Sp.: M25 |
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20-meter crosswalk dash at any major intersection in
Rome. |
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If you're dashing at a Rome intersection, you're doing it wrong. You have to stroll oblivious, as if a straw-sucking imbecile ambling blithely along an overgrown canal towpath, into the oncoming, allowing the traffic to arrange itself around you. Preferably while sporting calfskin snaffle-bit loafers. |
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I haven't been there since I was 13, so maybe I remember it
differently... |
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// crosswalk dash at any major intersection in Rome // |
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Our advice ? "Use the Force, Luke ....." |
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