Bay to Breakers
This weekend I joined 60,000 other people in a 7.6 mile run/walk/dodge of naked people across the city. Known as Bay to Breakers, this event is a San Francisco tradition that involves Elvis impersonators, more jello shots than water stations, a group dressed as salmon running the race backwards/"upstream", and the aforementioned naked people.
I have never run more than 3.5 miles at a time. I get bored. And tired. But I wanted to see Jen and somehow enticed her with this casual invitation to run this race together and next thing you know I'm in a sea of flying tortillas (another odd tradition) and a hoard of people dressed as Smurfs. It was awesome. Thanks to Jen, it was the first time I really enjoyed running. The Non-Race Monkey and my brother met us at the end and we proceeded to Ton Kiang where we battled the tourists and ate about 40 plates of dim sum. Excellent post-race tastiness.
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Comments
It's going to be really hard to top this race - it's my favorite one yet. Hanging out with you & Joannie, scheming ways to kidnap Jack and admiring Tamu's svelte waistline were top highlights of the weekend. And Tomi should patent his GPS dim sum idea - imagine, a Google widget we'd download to our Pocket PCs with Wifi to track the pork bun cart. It's a fusion of my two fav things - gear & food.
Posted by: Slow Poke | May 31, 2006 12:47 PM