Congratulations and thank you to all 47 teams that participated in the third annual New Horizons Cinciditarod!

Winners:
First Place: Going for the 3-Peat (team #21)
Second Place: Eye of the Tiger (team #28)
Third Place: Team Awesome (team #5)
Best Cart & Costume: Amish Paradise (team #20)
Best Glamour Shot: Super Mario Sunshine Group (team #50)
Obstacle Course: What the Smurf? (team #22)
Best Race Photo: Amish Paradise (team #20)
Piggy Bank Guess: The Cravings (team #3)
Best Performance: Team Whip It (team #12)
Best Sabotage: Dog Sled One (team #4)
Competitive Eating Champion: NKU (team #41)
Best Makeover: Lois Lanes (mid-race costume change from lady reporters to SuperWoman) (team #13)
Cheeky Optimism/Sunny Disposition: Cincichicks (team#2)

Participants, spectators, friends, and fans enjoyed a party on the Square as teams finished and through the Awards Ceremony. Teams showed great energy, creativity, and comedy in their carts, costumes, performances, and commitment to the spirit of the New Horizons Cinciditarod.

The Cinciditarod is a wacky shopping cart race through the city. It's named in tribute to the Alaskan Iditarod - a brutal 1,100-mile dog-sledding race - but instead of dogs, it's people; instead of sleds, it's shopping carts; and instead of Alaska, it's Cincinnati.

The race starts on Fountain Square on the first Saturday in March – the same day as the real Iditarod. And yes, we stole the idea from similar races in San Francisco, Portland, New York, and Chicago.

While physically attached to their grocery carts, teams push through a nearly five-mile course over the streets of downtown, Over-the-Rhine, and Mt Adams, picking up items on a grocery list and stopping at five mandatory checkpoints.

Grocery items benefit Cincinnati’s FreestoreFoodbank, and a challenge awaits team members at each checkpoint.

Special thanks to our 2010 title sponsor New Horizons Credit Union!

Thanks also to media partner Frequency 94.1 and to our partners: Senor Roy's Taco Patrol, Findlay Market, and the FreestoreFoodbank.

Video & Photos:

Check out photos from the 2010 New Horizons Cinciditarod on Metromix, our Flickr set, or other local photographers.

We invite YOU to post your photos or videos to Flickr, YouTube, or similar sites. If you do, be sure to tag them with "Cinciditarod," "Fountain Square," "Cincinnati," and other appropriate tags.

A full list of how each team placed is posted under Downloads, below.

Watch the 2009 video, produced by the awesome people at The Projectmill:

Mush on!