Running a race is a great way to practice running away from an angry grizzly bear or toward a charismatic mountain lion. Keep pace with nature with today's Groupon for entry to the CitySolve Urban Race on Saturday, July 16. Choose from the following options:
• For $25, you get registration for one (up to a $50 value).
• For $50, you get registration for two (up to a $100 value).
• For $75, you get registration for three (up to a $150 value).
On race day, teams of up to three walk, skip, or run through the little-known nooks of San Diego, gathering and solving clues that lead through neighborhoods such as Hillcrest, the Gaslamp Quarter, and Balboa Park, with one lucky team traipsing its way to a $300 prize. Clues range from anagrams and pop-culture trivia to deciphering graffiti written in pig Latin. Interspersed throughout the race are mettle-testing challenges, molding iron wills to such tasks as building a house from cards or identifying ice-cream flavors. The top three teams with the fastest gams and sharpest puzzle-solving skills will also win free entry in the National Championship race on Saturday, November 5, which has a grand prize of $5,000 and will be held in sunny Las Vegas (top 25 teams qualify for the race). Winners for best costumes, top senior (55 and older), and best tweet will also receive prizes. The competition begins at noon, and check-in runs from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. The race takes between three and five hours, and jet packs are strictly prohibited. All competitors receive a CitySolve Urban Race T-shirt.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Summer Hibernation
Like most animal species, humans instinctively conserve metabolic energy and seek respite from the sun by hibernating during the summer. Here's what your body is up to while you lie torpid throughout the sunny season:
Ambulating: After your body automatically collapses at noon on the summer solstice, your muscles will instinctively drag you to a cool, safe place, such as a roadside ditch or a forest cave filled with protective, blue-bottomed mandrills. (The mandrills will expect you to use your newly accumulated strength and spend the month after your awakening to lift boulders for their amusement.)
Circulating: As you hibernate, your heart ceases pumping and your body instead relies on strong summer winds to push blood to your organs. Because you require less energy, you'll survive on nutrients from leaves that blow into your mouth. To keep you cool, your scalp will retract any hair growing out of it. (Your retracted mane also serves as a sponge that soaks up unhappy memories.)
Dreaming: Although your body has been reduced to a dormant pile of skin and fingernails, your mind remains active, often creating realistic false memories of actually being awake during the summer. Popular hibernation fantasies include reading about summer hibernation on a daily-deal website, somehow enjoying lime-flavored beers, and getting married (this explains the high percentage of summer weddings).
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