This city is one big obstacle course. You dodge cars, bike messengers, dog poo on the sidewalk (horse poo if you’re in the park), and tourists daily.
You casually stand next to sky scrapers and slap them down with the back of your hand.
So I’ll cut right to the chase: For your next obstacle race let’s up the ante. And add water.
Behold: WipeoutRun, a dosage of self-administered tough love in the form of crashing, smashing, and splashing your way through an insane action-packed obstacle 5K.
First of all, let’s make this clear: this is no mere race. This is a full frontal assault on your body that I willingly participated in last Saturday at the Aviator Sports and Events Center in Brooklyn on Flatbush Ave. Consider this the front-runner for 2015’s Best Use of a Decommissioned Airport award.
See, WipeoutRun was not an overnight concept. It’s been 5 years on the making. The original game show inspired obstacle race was developed in 2011 by Vavi Sport & Social Club in San Diego, CA. The creators of ROC Race (Ridiculous Obstacle Challenge) then teamed-up with the producers of the hit TV show Wipeout and created WipeoutRun.
After signing two liability waivers, you’ll do all the regular race stuff–check in, pick up your race packet, bib, T-shirt. Then it’s time to get to the irregular stuff. Like climb over smash walls, duck the unforgiving sweeper, and try to manuver across a lot of inflatable things like wrecking balls, moon bounces and waterslides or break your neck trying (just kidding there were no actual necks broken during this race).
Pace yo’self, you can walk, run or dance your way through this untimed 5K designed for all athletic abilities, and cross the finish line by soaring down the four-story tall Happy Endings water slide!
This race puts your natural instincts to go use to help keep your mind sharp, your nerves steeled, and your reflexes cat like.
My takeaway from the event: watching the TV show Wipeout, hilarious. Enduring WipeoutRun reality, not so funny.