The Subzero festival was held in the SoFA district on Friday.  It’s a one evening event that highlights all things art and shenanigans.  Although I was at Works for most of the night, SJFixed had a booth set up with various goods for sale.  I think it gave us some positive exposure, especially with the upcoming alleycat.

The alleycat on Sunday was grueling.  Depending on which route you took,  it was at least a 40 mile race through stop signs, red lights and insane amounts of traffic.  Almost everyone I spoke with had leg cramps by the end of the race.

There were 5 checkpoints scattered throughout the southbay, all of which were malls.  San Jose State was the starting point and Williams park was the finish.  The first checkpoint was Oakridge mall, then Great Mall in Milpitas, back to Eastridge mall in San Jose, and finally Santana Row in Santa Clara before coming back to the park.  Reggie and I managed to finish in the 20s even though we had a couple run ins with motorists and police.

All in all it was a good day, there were 175 registered racers, with over 100 actually finishing.  Mark and the whole entire team did a good job of organizing and spreading the word.  Series two is in the books!