Urban Assault Ride

What an exhausting day but definitely a fun one. Aimee and I competed in the New Belgium Brewing Urban Assault Ride today. The race started at 9am sharp. Starting point was the Freewheel Bike shop off of the green way in Minneapolis. We first biked to lake Harriet to find out first mystery clue which will lead us to One on One bikes but on the way north we stopped at the Chipotle at Calhoun Commons for our first checkpoint challenge. We had to limbo at three heights while riding our bikes. Not too hard of a challenge as we were finished in matter of minutes. After that we head back on the green way on our way to Peace Coffee next to hwy 55. This was the best challenge out of all we did. This was the big wheel race. We did two laps all while skidding out around every turn. Next checkpoint was the Freewheel bikes off of Cedar. For this challenge we had to put on oven mitts and pick up bottle caps while the staff is soaking us with water cannons. After we biked to One on One and then to first ave. At this point it was 11:15am and we only had 45 minutes left so we decided to skip the REI in Bloomington checkpoint along with the Penn Cycles off of Penn in Richfield. We instead biked back to the finish so we could do the final challenge which was one of those giant inflatable obstical courses you would find at a county fair. After the ride we were treated to free Chipotle and free BEER!! I had a couple glasses of Fat Tire and of 1554. The best over all time was around 1hr and 39 minutes and for their effort they won 2 New Belgium Brewing bikes.

Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.



-MikeyB