So in another thread I talked a bit about Alleycat races, messenger races through city streets through regular traffic.
Basically you pay a couple of bucks (usually $10) and that goes into a kitty for the winner along with donated prizes from courier-friendly businesses. There are a series of checkpoints which are disclosed just prior to the race. Usually the finish point is kept secret until the last minute, too. You go to the checkpoints in any order you want, route yourself any way you want. As long as you get to the final checkpoint with signatures for each one on your manifest, you've finished. Most races are between 15 and 30 miles long. So here's Brian, moments after having received his manifest, figuring out which order he'll do them in. Routing is usually determined "on the fly" according to traffic flow, etc. No big whoop, just a slice of messenger life: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/10/race-prep.html Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Leica CL, 40mm f2.0 Summicron, TriX, low-rez scan. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
