Soundpony asked for my help for this years annual alleycat race, and of course, I happily agreed. It was blistering hot out, so we wanted to keep the race short and simple – after all, we’re nice guys. We plotted about an 8 mile course that went around downtown Tulsa, beginning and ending at Soundpony.

I chose to use a tarot card theme to pay homage to the original alleycat races that used numbered tarot cards to number the racers – thus giving birth to every hipsters favorite bicycle flare, the spoke card. The racers where given one ‘card’ at the beginning of the race which had a illustration of the first checkpoint and a map to the location on the back. At each checkpoint the riders where given a new card which told them the next location, that way the racers would have to plot their route on the fly. At the end of the race, each racer traded the checkpoint cards (that where just inkjet on paper) for a laminated spokecard that had what place they came in printed on the back.

The event went off without a hitch, the spandex racers ended up killing it. Soundpony made some gold rattle can trophies to hand out. Gallons of beer where consumed, good times where had.

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