Blackberry Curve Urban Challenge Finals - results

Joshua G — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:37:39 GMT

I was gently reminded that my previous post related to my Boston experience with this event was technically off topic and unrelated to the larger purposes of this blog. Therefore, I will post my detailed comments regarding this event and my team's finish to my MySpace blog: myspace.com/therunningbull (hopefully before Friday of this week).

Unfortunately, only about 6 of the 28 photos that I took during the event and emailed to myself before turning in the borrowed Blackberry Curve 8330 after we finished actually got delivered to my email inbox. Oh well, that is still 6 more than I had from Boston's event.

Sad to say, we did not Win, Place, or Show in the Finals so my anticipated fundraising efforts for RunningBull's Run took a mighty hit which may impact my ability to fully participate in the scheduled events for this fall.

I guess I didn't tell everyone yet afterall

Joshua G — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:04:32 GMT

I realized that my email distribution list wasn't as inclusive as I thought when I was asked today about my experience from last weekend's Blackberry Curve Challenge event in Boston. It was hard, it was tiring, it was amazingly fun. And I am not just saying that because my team finished in the top 30, therefore winning a Blackberry Curve 8330 smartphone for my 3 1/2 hours of effort.

I am saying that because the scavenger hunt clues were difficult, the check point challenges were...um...challenging, and the need for speed and efficiency paramount to score highly and finish well; all things that matched well with my expectations of the event and my own competitive nature. Unfortunately, we probably made things harder on ourselves by not taking some time early on to make sure we fully understood all of the directions and all of the clues. But hey, looking back I just appreciate that I was still able to get my hill work in afterall from running up and down 4 times before we solved the previous clue and were allowed to enter the monument...and run up more than 250 stairs to reach the observation platform at the top of the narrow spiral staircase.

Then it was off to visit the planets in the Community Solar System, with a detour through Harvard Square, a tour of the Back Bay, and a trip to the oldest baseball park in America. Then we got to bob for apples in a lobster tank and complete a couple of obnoxiously difficult physical challenges.

But you know what? It was an absolute blast and I am really looking forward to doing it all again in San Francisco as the winners of the Boston competition. Yeah, I know, not the best photo.

Joshua Grzegorzewski: the RunningBull Blog

Blackberry Curve Urban Challenge Finals - results

I guess I didn't tell everyone yet afterall