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On Your Marks! Get Set! Idiotarod!
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 24, 2008
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Are you planning on joining the masses for Idiotarod this year? The race begins at noon this Saturday, and instead of having one starting point as in previous years...there are four! The pimped out shopping carts will be taking off from Long Island City, DUMBO, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. If you don't want to be a spectator, you can register here.
To keep track of the madness we'd love a few teams to volunteer their documentation of the jaunt. Contact us at tips (a) gothamist dot com if you're interested and we'll give you a better idea of what we're looking for.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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