The Portland Urban Iditarod is a race in which teams of people ("dogs") pull shopping cart

Shopping cart

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s ("sleds") through a course over four miles through downtown Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

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. This race occurs on the first Saturday of March—the same date as the actual Alaskan Iditarod—and has also taken place in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, San Francisco, Chicago

Chicago

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, Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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 and Ann Arbor. Racers wear "absurd" costumes, including Spanish bullfighters and diaper-wearing astronauts, and make stops at pubs and bars along the way. There are no winners or losers in the Portland event, but other cities offer a "Best in Show" prize.

2001 race

Saturday, March 3, 2001

• 6 teams
• Winning Team Spoogie

Check Points

• Bridgeport Brewery
• Rogue Public House
• Marathon Tavern
• Captain Ankeny's
• Yamhill Pub

2002 race

Saturday, March 3, 2002

• 4 teams

Check Points

• Rogue Public House
• Old Town Pizza
• Captain Ankeny's
• Yamhill Pub

2004 race

Saturday, March 6, 2004

• 8 teams

Check Points

• Grand Cafe
• Old Town Pizza
• Captain Ankeny's
• Rock Bottom Brewery

2008 race

Saturday, March 1, 2008

• 200 Teams
• Winner: Quest for Fire

Nearly 1,000 participants ran the race. One man was hit by a car on the Hawthorne Bridge

Hawthorne Bridge

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 and suffered a broken leg. Teams were required to have five people—one musher and four dogs.

2009 race

Saturday, March 8 2009

• 110 Teams
• Winner: Reno 911

Check Points

• Grand Cafe
• Green Dragon
• RonToms
• Berbati's Pan
• Paddy's Bar and Grill

2010 race

Saturday, March 13 2010

• 110 Teams
• Winner: The Last Supper

Check Points

• Grand Cafe
• Grand Central Bowl
• Jupiter Hotel
• Barracuda
• Paddy's Bar and Grill

See also

• Bay to Breakers
  Bay to Breakers
  The Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace which takes place in San Francisco, California on the third Sunday of May. The name reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarcadero and runs west through the city to finish at the Great...
  
   In San Francisco, CA
• Idiotarod
  Idiotarod
  The Idiotarod is a shopping cart race in which teams of five "idiots" tie themselves to a grocery store shopping cart and run through the streets of a major metropolitan area. The race usually features people in costumes and themed floats. The races are fun competitions where sabotage, costume,...
  
  
• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
• Kinetic sculpture race
  Kinetic sculpture race
  Kinetic sculpture races are organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art. The original event, the Kinetic Grand Championship in Humboldt County, California, is also called the "Triathlon of the Art World" because art and engineering are combined with physical endurance...
  
  
• Shopping cart race
• Wife carrying
  Wife Carrying
  Wife carrying is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time...
  
  
• Wok racing
  Wok racing
  Wok racing has been developed by the German TV host and entertainer Stefan Raab: Modified Chinese woks are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track. There are competitions for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter using four woks per sled.- History :Wok racing was...
  
  
• Zoobomb
  Zoobomb
  Zoobomb is a weekly bicycling activity in Portland, Oregon, United States during which participants ride bicycles rapidly downhill in the city's West Hills. Zoobomb began in 2002....