Raw States

Bay to Breakers

San Francisco, CA · Quirky

When

May 16, 2027

Where

Howard and Main, to the Great Highway · San Francisco · CA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A twelve kilometre race across the whole width of the city, run every year since 1912 and now at least as famous for what people wear as for how fast they run. Salmon costumes traditionally run the course backwards, and centipedes of thirteen tied-together runners compete in their own category.

The history within reach

• Bay to Breakerssame spot

  A twelve kilometre race across the whole width of the city, run every year since 1912 and now at least as famous for what people wear as for how fast they run.

• Bay to Breakers is first run0.1 mi

  Started to cheer the city up after the earthquake, it runs seven and a half miles from the bay to the Pacific and has been overtaken by everything except the route.

• Salesforce Tower completed0.2 mi

  At 1,070 feet the tallest building in the city, and a marker of the software boom that reordered its economy and its rents.

• Bloody Thursday and the general strike0.4 mi

  Police fired on longshoremen striking the waterfront in July 1934, killing two.

• The Vigilance Committees, when San Francisco hanged its own0.5 mi

  Merchants twice seized the city from its elected government, in 1851 and 1856, hanging eight men and deporting dozens.