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Bay to Breakers: Run some, party lots, run some more...
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by clorenz1 | May 22, 2006 at 09:08 am
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The cold, clammy weather at the beginning of the Bay to Breakers footrace may have shrunk attendance a little, but the estimated 62,000 runners who staggered through San Francisco on Sunday did their part to keep up the party spirit.
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at 11:06 on May 22nd, 2006
Running?! What running? People actually ran? By the way...
What’s up with the flying tortillas?
at 11:32 on May 22nd, 2006
Great question. What was with the Tortillas? Was anyone there when the tortillas where flying?
at 12:00 on May 22nd, 2006
Tortillas fly while everyone is waiting for the start. It takes 62,000 people a very long time to get past the start--the joke is that the race is won before the majority of participants have even passed the starting line. We started about the middle of the pack and our start time was around 8:20. The elite runners cross at 8:00.
For the hour or so that everyone is milling around waiting to start, people toss tortillas into the air. This year there was a little water on the ground from rain, so the tortillas got soggy and when people trod on them, they basically returned to tortilla dough. There had to be a quarter inch of this slippery brown stuff covering the road near the start.