Bay to Breakers

So I had my first Bay to Breakers experience today. It's weird because I've lived here for six years now, and have been a Bay Area(ish) native for most of my life, and I've pretty much avoided the B2B like the plague. If you don't know what it is, you're living in a hole, but for my hole-dwelling readers, it's basically a foot race that starts downtown by the bay and goes essentially straight across town and ends at the ocean (Breakers). The catch is that people dress up funny-like and have big carts with kegs and loud music on them. It's like one big drunken walk across the city. Mandy and I decided to enter and actually run it this year, because we're trying to train to run a marathon in a few months. We rocked. We both accomplished our individual goals - Mandy finished without killing herself (and with minimal walking), and I finished in the top 10,000 runners. Now, this may seem silly, but in a pool of 60,000-70,000 runners, that ain't half bad. My results:

12k (7.5ish miles) in 1:18:51 (1 mile pace of 10:35)

Finished 6,629th overall, 4,608th of all the men, and 1,117th in my age group

Because I finished in the top 10,000, my name will be in the "paper" (The Examiner) on Monday. I've had worse honors, and all in all, it was a really fun day. Lessons for next time: line up at the starting line earlier (we didn't actually cross the start line until 30 minutes after the gun), and eat something less gross for breakfast. Also bring a sweatshirt for the end because it's cold.

In other news, I still have my job, so that's pretty cool.