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 Millbrae Street
Scramble
Event-Day Instructions
The event is on rain or shine... there's hope!
Presented by the Millbrae Chamber
1. Weather
The event will be held rain or shine. Just in case the weather that we've
ordered up doesn't quite make it, we have reserved one of the rooms at the Library, and will be
staging the event there. This is different from the Chetcuti Room, which served as the event
center in 2006 and 2007, however the library is very close to the Chetcuti Room. Look
for the Street Scramble banner.
2. Parking
Park in the large lot between Mervyn's and the library. Please reserve the library and City
Hall lots for library patrons.
3. Safety
Safety is our first priority. All cyclists must wear a helmet and stop at
all stop signs and red lights. The worst place to cross El Camino Real, the busiest street in
the area, is at Millbrae Avenue; the wait time for a green light is shorter just about anywhere
else. Cars sometimes do not stop at pedestrian crosswalks across El Camino in downtown
Millbrae; please exercise extra caution, and make eye contact with the drivers. We strongly
encourage you to wear a Street Scramble safety vest to enhance your visibility.
4. Checkpoint sponsors
Please say thanks to Guittard Chocolate and the Millbrae Historical Society. The checkpoint for Guittard is outside the
factory and is unstaffed. The Train Museum will be open, and you need to go inside in order to
answer the checkpoint question.
5. Cellphone scoring
This is its inaugural use, and there may be some bugs. We have not yet implemented
QR codes at checkpoints or acknowledgment messages when you text in your answers. We can
support only a limited number of teams for cellphone scoring this time around. If you are
interested in trying it, please arrive early so we can get you set up. Any cellphone will work,
but we will not be able to offer cellphone scoring to event-day registrants.
Send texts to Vladimir's phone number: +1 971 998 0321. For all event-related questions and
voice calls, please use Rex's number: +1 510 681 6181.
6. Pen-and-paper scoring
We have Rite in the Rain® paper for question-and-answer sheets. If you would prefer to
mark your answers in pen or pencil on a paper score sheet, please also make sure to write down
the time you visited each checkpoint. Your finish time will be taken when you hand in your
score sheet.
7. Bikes
A road bike will work well (a mountain bike is not necessary).
8. Course notes
 The optimum
straight-line route to get all checkpoints is 29.8 km; actual distance to travel is
perhaps 47 km—certain to challenge even the fastest cyclists! The course has
1000 total points. The late penalty is 10 points for each minute, or fraction thereof.
Remember, you can switch from the 90 minute division to the 3 hour division at any
time, even while you are on the course.
- The map is an improved USGS topographic map. It does not have most street names. We
added some but not all large and prominent buildings.
- Sometimes you can go through a city block, but most times you can't. We added some
details to help guide you, showing walkways, alleys, and large parking lots. If it's a
solid-gray block on the map, with no detail shown, it's safest to assume you can't get
through. In addition to trail and street symbols, entrances and access points are shown with
red arrows that point to where you can enter a block. For parks shown in green, you can get
into the park from streets immediately adjacent to the park (i.e. when there is no gap
between the black street and the green of the park), as well as at points shown with the red
arrows.
- There are a number of points to cross the train tracks. Each time a street is shown
crossing the tracks, you can cross (please wait for the train to pass if the gate is down;
trains run once an hour in each direction). You can also cross through the BART/Caltrain
station, on its upper level. You will not be entering a paid area if you do that.
- You may not enter the train tracks at crossings other than the legal
crossings, nor run or walk along the tracks.
- We are using different symbols to show multipurpose trails, on which bikes are allowed,
and foot-only trails. Dogs are allowed on all trails, to the best of our knowledge. There
are two sizable parks within the event area, with trail networks. One of them has a
checkpoint on a foot-only trail. You will need to park your bike at the closest point at
which bikes are still legal, and continue on foot. A reasonable route will be
300 meters on a foot-only trail in each direction. This and the train museum are the
only checkpoints not immediately reachable by bike.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday morning!!
Event staff:
Eric, Rex, and Vladimir
This event has been made possible by the following sponsors. Please patronize their
products and services, and contribute to their programs:
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The Chamber is the Presenting Sponsor of the Millbrae Street
Scramble. The Chamber's mission is to promote business in Millbrae. |
While waiting for a train at the
Millbrae station, we often puzzled, "Where's that smell of chocolate cookies coming
from?" Wonder no more. Discover Guittard Chocolate! Founded by a Frenchman in San
Francisco in 1868, Guittard remains family-owned and operated, and is one of only ten
chocolate makers in the U.S. |
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The Millbrae Lions Club is a fun
and vibrant association of men and women who love their community. The Club is actively
involved in a number of important fundraising and community projects, such as the
Millbrae Lions Youth Baseball League, Blood Drive, Pancake Breakfasts, and some three
dozen others. |
Scarborough Orienteering, aka
Orienteer.com, is a leading vendor of equipment. They carry compasses, SPORTident cards,
Inov-8™ shoes, and other gear and produce their own line of o21e suits, club
uniforms, and gaiters. Orienteer.com also offers map and compass instruction and group
outings, including orienteering and team-building training, as corporate
offsites. |
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Oakland's terraloco organizes urban and
wild map trek adventures! |
Seattle's Meridian Geographics is
an active outdoor lifestyle company. It produces the Street Scramble, Northwest Trail
Runs, and BEAST Adventure Race series. Its showcase events are the annual Seattle and San
Francisco Night and Day challenges, and the Three15er and Big Tahoma rogaines. |
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The Millbrae
Historical Society got its start in the early 1970s by saving one of very few
landmarks left in the town—the Millbrae train station. After that accomplishment,
several other buildings were recognized by the Society. One of them was moved one-half
mile through downtown Millbrae, meticulously restored, and became the Society's Museum.
The Museum is next door to the start and finish location of the Street Scramble. We hope
you find time to enjoy what it has to offer after the event!! |
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