This has my name written all over it! UrbanDare.com - “a kind of race-meets-scavenger hunt in which choosing and using the right gadgets was as essential to success as speed.”

Here’s an article from Wired.com about it.

With Razr cell phones pressed to their ears and BlackBerry 8700s in hand, Ann Ritter and Bryant Palmer broke from the pack of other teams and ran at top speed up Fifth Avenue toward Union Square Park. On the other end of the cell phone, Palmer’s sister sat at home in front of her computer, googling Union Square Park to confirm that it was, in fact, the site of the first Labor Day observation.

Forty teams combined physical fitness and tech know-how for Saturday’s Urban Dare in New York City, a kind of race-meets-scavenger hunt in which choosing and using the right gadgets was as essential to success as speed. (Wired magazine writer Daniel Pink covered a similar race in 2003.) The teams had to answer city-specific trivia questions to find and photograph each of the 12 checkpoints that made up the racecourse.

Correct answers enabled the teams to find the checkpoints. At some locations, a physical dare like doing push-ups or eating a giant pretzel was required. At others, teams had to take digital pictures of specific things. “I’m sure they thought we were crazy,” Beau Benton said of the family from Mexico City who posed for a required picture of a human pyramid. He snapped the shot with his Leica D-Lux 3 digital camera.

To finish the race, teams had to reach the final checkpoint in the Bleeker Street Bar for a dart dare. They had to throw a bull’s eye before the clock could be stopped. Kiss My Blarney Stone finished first with a time of 2:36:22, but was only declared the winner after showing its collection of digital photos from checkpoints along the way.

It’s coming to Columbus on June 23rd…I just might think about doing that…