Over the weekend I participated in my first race, the Bay to Breakers 12K. Since the celebrations surrounding the 100-year-old race make it one of my favorite days in San Francisco, I was beyond excited to make the race my first competitive running experience. I was a little nervous about whether or not I'd get winded on the race's infamous hill (an 11.15 percent grade incline that runs for five Read more

After years of participating in the craziness from the sidelines, I recently signed up for San Francisco's most infamous (and most naked) race: the ING Bay to Breakers 12K. The 7.5-mile race crosses the entire width of San Francisco and draws thousands of participants, from serious runners to those who are decidedly not, and turns the whole city into race fans for a day. I love that my first race Read more

After some last-minute preparation, I was all set to run San Francisco's most famous race over the weekend, Bay to Breakers. It starts (fittingly) a block from the San Francisco Bay in SF's SoMA neighborhood, running through SoMA, across Market Street, through Hayes Valley, up the Hayes Street hill near Alamo Square, then downhill through parts of the Lower Haight before entering Golden Gate Read more