Shopping cart race

Shopping cart race

Many cities around the world hold shopping cart races in which participants modify grocery store shopping carts and mimic the famed Alaskan dogsled race, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Known Annual Races

* Portland Urban Iditarod
* Vancouver, BC [ [http://www.skullskates.com/scr/map.html The Map ] ]
* Idiotarod (New York, NY)
* Ann Arbor, MI (see Culture in Ann Arbor, Michigan)
* [http://www.chiditarod.org/ Chiditarod] [ [http://www.methodsreporter.com/2007/03/05/chiditarod-2007-chicagos-urban-shopping-cart-race/ Video] )] (Chicago, IL)
* [http://dcsmashed.org/idiotarod/ Washington D.C. Idiotarod]
* [http://www.myfountainsquare.com/cinciditarod/ Cinciditarod] (Cincinnati, OH)

References

ee also

* Kinetic sculpture race
* Wife carrying
* Wok racing
* Zoobomb


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