"EAST WILLIAMSBURG - SOUPED-UP SHOPPING CARTS and costumed teams launched from Cooper Park on Jan. 31 for the 23rd annual Idiotarod, a DIY "race" inspired by the long-distance sled-dog race in Alaska, Brooklyn Paper reports. Though the Alaska race is called the Iditarod, the Brooklyn race is the arod. This year, 30 teams participated."
""We are looking for shenanigans," Idiotarod volunteer Sarah Janjua told Brooklyn Paper last year . "We are looking for bribes; we are looking for [people] cutting corners.""
"The daylong bar crawl ran about five miles with three bar checkpoints - Emblem in Williamsburg, Bar Cornelia in Bushwick - where the teams participate in minigames before an afterparty at The Deep End on Wyckoff Ave. where carts were hoisted and smashed."
The 23rd annual Idiotarod launched from Cooper Park in East Williamsburg on Jan. 31 with souped-up shopping carts and costumed teams. The event is a DIY parody of the Iditarod and drew 30 participating teams. The daylong route covered about five miles and included three bar checkpoints, including Emblem in Williamsburg and Bar Cornelia in Bushwick, where teams competed in minigames. The route concluded with an afterparty at The Deep End on Wyckoff Ave., during which carts were hoisted and smashed. Notable cart themes included a DSNY-style Department of "Inebriation," the Kostume Kult, and the Hot Tub Crime Machine.
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