Congratulations to all the participants who made Great Urban Race New York City 2010 such a huge success! Just over 985 racers packed the Boat Basin Café while enjoying a beautiful and sunny summer day. The day’s challenges included rock climbing at Chelsea Piers, deciphering a Braille clue at 1-2-3 Burger Shot Beer and sampling a delicious Chocolate Shanghai Soup dumpling at Rickshaw Dumpling.

Our champions, AgGURrvated GURassmonkey came in with an amazing time of 2:16! Jet Set took second place with a time of 2:19, followed closely by AmazeBalls with a time of 2:23 to take third place. Our top family team, C Squared came in with a speedy time of 3:18!

A big congratulations to our St. Jude fundraising winners, Hop the 9s who raised $4,015!  Another congratulations to the St. Jude Challenge winning team Martini and Margarita. And a big thanks to all of our St. Jude Heroes who raised an amazing and GUR-record breaking amount of $17,699!

The costume contest had over 30 decked-out teams vying for Best Costume!  It was a close call and came down to SmartiePants and German Lederhosen.  The crowd made their favorite known and elected German Lederhosen as Best Costume winners! 

Thanks to all of our volunteers, St. Jude, Starlight Children’s Foundation and Boat Basin Cafe.   An extra-special thank you to St. Jude patient and survivor Michael who shared his amazing St. Jude story and reminded us all of the phenomenal work St. Jude does.  The GUR Crew is already brainstorming fun and exciting ideas for both 2011 races in New York City and our newest expansion to Brooklyn—we can’t wait to see all of you next year!

EVENT RESULTS

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* denotes team qualified for the National Championship.

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CHAMPION INTERVIEW

Team Name: AgGURravated GURassmonkeys

Have you ever participated in a GUR before?

Yep, we came in 19th place last year (2009) in the NYC GUR. WE also went to the nationals in NOLA and completely & utterly bombed! (But I guess we redeemed ourselves this year!)

How did you prepare for the race?

Well since about January, we’ve been drinking raw egg whites and protein shakes. We also made sure to run at least 17 miles daily and do regular strength training. We also timed ourselves wherever we went and took day-trips to Philly to run up the stairs at the Philly Art Museum – Rocky style.

What was your overall race strategy?

Collaboration! We joined up with the Go-Go-Gadgets (our lovely friends Kate and Brian) who helped us make smarter decisions and motivated us to run faster!

Did anything go wrong during the race?

We messed up early on by not reading a clue properly. We showed up at Chelsea Piers @ 12:30pm when it was only open between 1-4pm. Arrrgh!

What was your favorite clue? Why?

The one where we screwed up at Chelsea Piers (refer to answer above and please note sarcasm!) Actually we liked the Dylan’s Candy Shop one because we got amazing free candy and scared little children with our hurriedness.

What was the most memorable part of the day?

When we crossed the finish line and someone told us we came first and we were like “Yeah, that’s real funny,” because we didn’t expect it at all.

Any secrets to your success that you’d be willing to share?

Kate and Brian! Go Go Gadgets!