Idiot alert: NYC’s Idiotarod set for Saturday; Planners say this year will be better
New York City’s 10th annual Idiotarod — a bizarre urban event roughly modeled on the Iditarod, the epic dog-sledding race in Alaska — will tentatively take off this Saturday, January 26 at noon.
Instead of racing in sleds through 1,000 miles of snow, however, the Idiotarod features costumed idiots running through the city pushing themed shopping carts.
After last year’s Idiotarod devolved into a fiasco, with poor turnout, an overly long route and general confusion, the planners of the event say this year will be better.