The ears are where its at!

Last Saturday’s Egg-mazing Bike Race was a huge personal success for me, the pink bunny, even if those pesky white eared rabbits made away with the first prize.  But my 2nd place win really was a team effort and I want to thank everyone for their hardwork, passion, time, and energy – all the things that went into making me a 2nd place champion scavenger hunt winner!   To retrace, my team really threw down the gauntlet in the first stretch of the race, pushing out in front of the pack, quickly capturing the first point by  translating that crazy Portuguese phrase, something about a billion chickens or something.  The next clue was at Newark’s swanky condo residences converted from an old chocolate factory, where we had to munch on the chocolate clue before getting our point.  We almost took the lead then, but again, those pesky weirdo bunnies were able to pull ahead, but at least we were able to fly by last year’s winner, Matt (above), who really miscalculated not only the quality of his ride but also his ears, or general lack thereof!

From there it was on to Riverbank Park where the awesome pit crew helped us prove our agility in deflating and pumping our tires.  Little did we know, our biggest challenge awaited us. We rode over to the waterfront and quickly found the clue on the Newark sign (right), telling us to look for our points near a water source so we went to the river, but……nothing, we spent precious time searching for what turned out to be a non-existant missing clue!

So we quickly headed out to the next bonus point and attempted to get the rest of the group off our trail, but they were too rascally and so together we journeyed into the industrial yards of the Ironbound where the future 3rd place winner, Margarita (left), started to catch up to us.  From there, it was a long strenuous ride over to the Ironbound Recreation Center where an awesome actual real life soccer coach helped us get the soccer ball in the net, gooooooallll!

See below as the white eared rabbits angrily looked on as I stepped up to make my goal.

After a treking way out to Avenue P by the I/9 and route 95 (as if we were going to Jersey City) to nab a few more bonus points, we took a turn at the bike waterfall, where one of the race creator’s, Ryan, helped us cool off with some bike water blessings.  Allison (below), a key team member, happily uses her own pedal power  to make the water fall (almost a pun).

We headed over to Independence Park for the next set of clues and obstacles, and discovered that it was opportunity for us to show off our true colors, pink! “What costume?  I came this way!”

The day was still not over and we had one final treat to eat at Ce Qui Sabe.  Proof of  just how delicious it was can be seen below by how vigorously  our photographer volunteer & BCBC member, Tim, chows down it, even though he wasn’t even competing!

We had precious little time before points would start to be deducted from our final score if we arrived late, so instead of riding to south street and scrambling to get the last bonus point, we decided to book it to the finish and try to arrive first with the most points.  But we were too late!  The rascally (one might suspect, cheating) rabbits had managed to sneak around us and make it to the finish line.

Next time you silly rabbits, next time!

See as I kick the people behind me's butts

And of course much thanks to Marie, Zoe and Councilmember “Augie” Amador.

Without you, my historic 2nd place would would never have been possible!