Tuesday, September 3, 2013

GOING RACING!

 
     Don't worry, this won't be a post about covering sports, but there was some racing involved.
     This weekend marked Rhinelander's first Potato Fest with several activities to take part in. I wanted to check out the Couch Potato Racing event. I've heard of other communities doing something like this, but have never seen it. So, of course, I brought my camera along with me.
     The rules are pretty simple:

  1. A couch on wheels with one person riding and four others pushing it. 
  2. Halfway down the road, the person on the couch and to jump off and compete in a bean-bag toss.
  3. The teams then raced down to the end of Brown Street, turned around and stopped again halfway back. 
  4. This time the person riding on the couch had to play the ladder golf game and get one sting of golf balls on a bar before continuing. 
  5. The fastest team won.

     There were only eight teams signed up for the event, but the crowds watching seemed to really enjoy it. I thought it was pretty neat seeing how the teams dressed up. We had a team there with the Duck Dynasty theme, a Charlie Brown theme, a sports theme, a radio station theme and others.
     There was some fun emotion to take photos of too, like teams cheering for each other as they pushed the couches, celebrating with a fast time and reaction if a wheel fell off.
     Here are some of my images from the Couch Potato Race held in Rhinelander.
     Enjoy!





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