It's like our own punk rock version of the Olympics.
Seven minutes to go!
Weird riders come from Latvia, the UK, France, Poland.
We had a large contingent from Tokyo.
Keep yourself on, Marshal Man, let the stock matter!
No quit?
No, yeah.
The root of all this is in street races.
Street races amongst messengers have been going on as long as there have been messengers.
The idea behind having a closed course is that you can regulate the race more.
It's easier for people to have the same race because the organizers are the ones who control
the variables.
Whereas in a street race, like an alley cat, nobody has any control over the variables.
The variables themselves, being the cars, or the pedestrians, or whatever else is occupying
the city.
Six minutes!
Six minutes!
Completely as much work as possible.
You will be more than an hour hard to do.
I'm just bad.
If you do not make it back here in two hours.
My approach to designing this course was that our city is very easy to navigate.
We have a very efficient grid system.
Navigation isn't much of a challenge for messengers.
What is tricky is delivering to your address.
Most of the buildings in Chicago that we deliver to you, you don't go through the front door.
I need A4 to this guy.
You're good.
Hide the line, guys!
Hide the line!
It's a number on it.
It's a number on it.
The way I designed this course was around our one-way system.
So this course, just because you can see where the front door of your building is, you're
going to have to make some loops to get there.
And if you miss your turn to getting those loops, they were going to have a hard attack
with your race.
It was going to cost you time and mileage.
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