City Chase Urban Adventure Racing going global
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Article Summary
March 8, 2007 One of the more interesting developments of improved communications via the internet is the way in which new sports become viable because geographically-disparate but like-minded people can be formed into a community. One such phenomena is the urban adventure racing - a part urban obstacle course, part scavenger hunt race that is open to anyone over the age of 18, and features teams of two racing around a major city to complete a series of unique physical, mental, and humorous challenges and return to the finish line in the fastest time. City Chase was created and launched in Canada in 2004 and made an immediate impact, expanding to a national event series with a national prime-time TV series covering events in Canada’s nine largest cities in 2005. It was named Canada’s best sporting event in 2005 and 2006 and last year the first world championships were held in Chicago. This year CityChase kicks off on March 17 in Sydney (Australia), where 500 teams are expected to compete, followed by events in Portugal, Spain, France, Singapore, England, the USA and Canada. Teams typically consist of seasoned runners who don’t mind doing the hard yards – check out the Chicago world championship course which covered 30 kilometres and required the fastest team 33 hours to complete.
