{"id":532,"date":"2011-05-29T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T22:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/http:\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/bay-to-breakers-this-is-how-we-run-a-footrace-in-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:16:49","slug":"bay-to-breakers-this-is-how-we-run-a-footrace-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/bay-to-breakers-this-is-how-we-run-a-footrace-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay to Breakers: This is How We Run A Footrace in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div class=\"posterous_autopost\">\n<p>Every city has their big charity race; in San Francisco it&#8217;s Bay to Breakers. Folks run from the beautiful Bay, through the city and all the way through Golden Gate Park. Unlike most cities, San Franciscans like to do it in costumes. And unlike other cities that get dressed up, these gold rush kids take their costumes seriously.<\/p>\n<p>My first experience with Bay to Breakers was being handed a paper cup while running, the typical side-of-the-road refresher offered to runners, only to find out the cup was filled with beer. This year I decided to be lazy and wait at the finish line to get photos of some of the fantastic outfits. Nostalgia was in full force this year, with more Mario and Luigis than you can squeeze into a hidden green pipe and so many red-striped Waldos that the irony of finding so many of them was completely lost. There were also a ton of Smurfs, muppets and Angry Birds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_8-49-33_AM.JPG.scaled5001.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_8-49-33_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_10-27-40_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_10-27-40_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><!--more--><\/div>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_8-36-32_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_8-36-32_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_8-30-42_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_8-30-42_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_8-32-15_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_8-32-15_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_9-39-08_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_9-39-08_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"343\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_9-47-16_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_9-47-16_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_9-48-11_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_9-48-11_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_10-37-36_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_10-37-36_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_11-05-44_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_11-05-44_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"362\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_11-05-52_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_11-05-52_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bay_to_Breakers_5-15-2009_11-05-54_AM.JPG.scaled500.jpg\" alt=\"Bay_to_breakers_5-15-2009_11-05-54_am\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\">\n<div class=\"p_see_full_gallery\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bayisbetter.posterous.com\/bay-to-breakers-this-is-how-we-run-a-footrace\">See the full gallery on Posterous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of the beauties my camera was able to grab, certainly not comprehensive. \u00a0 This set includes Star Wars, Smurfs, Pac-Man, Scrabble, some very rambunctious American Gladiators and a dog in leg warmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/bayisbetter.posterous.com\/bay-to-breakers-this-is-how-we-run-a-footrace\">The Bay is Better<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every city has their big charity race; in San Francisco it&#8217;s Bay to Breakers. Folks run from the beautiful Bay, through the city and all the way through Golden Gate Park. Unlike most cities, San Franciscans like to do it in costumes. And unlike other cities that get dressed up, these gold rush kids take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/bay-to-breakers-this-is-how-we-run-a-footrace-in-san-francisco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bay to Breakers: This is How We Run A Footrace in San Francisco<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[105,232,247,406,683,684,787],"series":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-san-francisco","tag-bay-to-breakers","tag-costumes","tag-culture","tag-golden-gate-park","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17248,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/17248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}