The Chiditarod Volunteer Meeting is Wednesday, March 3. But people need to sign up soon so we can plan accordingly! Click here and check Mobile Bike Marshal under preferred role — unless you somehow find another role more appealing. 

The fifth annual Chicago urban Iditarod race is on March 6. In short it's a mobile food drive in the form of the Iditarod, except people replace the Huskies, themed shopping carts replace sleds, and bars replace watering holes. This results in over 500 costumed and increasingly intoxicated competitors scrambling through the streets of chicago with shopping carts decorated as telephone booths, the popemobile or chopped into low-riding and functional grills — for a good cause.

The ideal bike marshal is fun-loving yet responsible. The job includes patrolling routes in teams from about 12:00 am until 4:00 pm, but showing up at 10:00 am and hopefully staying for the award show and ensuing after party