At 6:30 a.m. on a fall Saturday, the Martin Luther King Neigborhood Association (my neighborhood) started the first-annual Verizon Wireless Urban Challenge. We had almost 100 teams compete to be the first to photograph 12 checkpoints in the city's urban cAt 6:30 a.m. on a fall Saturday, the Martin Luther King Neigborhood Association (my neighborhood) started the first-annual Verizon Wireless Urban Challenge. We had almost 100 teams compete to be the first to photograph 12 checkpoints in the city's urban core. Teams were given clues that directed them to a checkpoint, but teams could only walk, run, or use public transportation. No bikes, no roller blades, no helicopters. After the race, it was discovered that the shortest path to connect all checkpoints was 7 miles, although if you found the mayor and photographed her, you could skip any checkpoint. The first place team did it 1.5 hours.