I am usurping Bryn and Luke's blog to write about Bay to Breakers, the world's oldest consecutively run annual footrace. Established in 1912, Bay to Breakers is a 12K race that starts at the Embarcadero, along the San Francisco Bay, and cuts across the city to Ocean Beach (the Pacific Breakers). The race is infamous for its costumed runners and "centipedes" -- groups of 13 or more runners who travel the course together linked by a bungee cord or "any other soft mechanism." The most famous of these centipedes is a group dressed like salmon who starts the race at the finish and runs toward the start. Throughout the course, they drop down on the concrete to spawn. Very funny.
I participated with two friends who both have first-grade sons, Monica Coleman and Tina Davis.
Another tradition of Bay to Breakers is that the expectant crowd tosses tortillas up into the air before the race begins. See the video.
with Monica
Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the salmon, but here's something else for which the race is famous:
HA!
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