Bravery is one of humankind's most sought-after characteristics, alongside wit, humor, and the ability to read a city map without pulling a hamstring. Make your species proud with today's Groupon: for $45, you get admission for a team of two to the Urban Dare Adventure Race on Pacific Beach (up to a $90 value), launching at noon on Saturday, August 6 from Typhoon Saloon on Garnet Avenue.
Urban Dare Adventure Race is a fast-paced competition that challenges two-person teams to decipher clues, navigate the city, and perform playful stunts. Combining the bustle of a track meet with the brain-taxing sleuth work of a luge competition, the race uses a dozen trivia-based clues to lead contestants to checkpoints all over the city. Location hunters reach their checkpoints by whatever means necessary, be it hopping a bus downtown, flying madly through a network of secret ziplines, or scuba-diving in a fountain for bus fare. At the mini destinations, racers must use a camera to document their presence or, in some cases, get their passports stamped after completing a challenge.
Races generally last less than four hours, and the winner receives free entry to the next Super Dare, which has a $5,000 grand prize that allows the winners to dare each other to invest in a low-risk mutual fund. Proceeds from the race are used to help battle breast cancer.
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The Groupon Guide to: Swimming with Dolphins
Humans and dolphins have loved swimming together ever since Copernicus first discovered these “smooth friendsharks” in 1510. Here's a guide to wading with the smartest of sea mammals:
- Before entering the water, make sure you are wearing the preapproved Dockers dolphin-resistant khakis.
- Earn the dolphin's respect by showing it a painting of you foreclosing on the dolphin's house.
- Swimming with dolphins does have health benefits, but only if you and the dolphin swim in a giant tank of medicine.
- Make sure you don't break the number-one rule of swimming with the dolphins, whatever that is.
- Dolphin is a combination of the words Dolph and Lundgren, also the name of the Swedish actor and martial artist that you must defeat in order to gain access to the dolphins.
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