Bay To Breakers

Every year I participate in a San Francisco 12k known as the Bay to Breakers. For those of you who are not from the Bay Area, the Bay to Breakers starts on the bay side of San Francisco, snakes through the city, over the Hayes Street Hill, and ends on the breakers (Ocean) side of the city. It's the kind of race that would only occur in San Francisco. Adults, children, teenagers, and grandparents run it, walk it, or get pushed through it. They run it in costume, as a team, on floats, with kegs, and even naked.

This is a race that A and I have been doing since freshman year in college. It is our once-a-year-no-matter-where-you-are-or-what-you-are-doing-with-your-life tradition. The only year we both missed it was when we were studying abroad because we felt our time was better spent visiting each other in England or France. Every year is different and every year gets better.

This year it was only A, A's boyfriend, A's sister and I who participated, but there's nothing like getting up early on a Sunday morning for a 7 mile stroll through the city. Next year we are planning on costumes . . .



. . . not bad for walking all but the last mile.