Yesterday, around 75,000 people participated in Australia's 29th annual biggest footrace - City2Surf. The route starts downtown in Hyde Park and finishes at Bondi Beach. The race is Sydney's effort to replicate Bay to Breakers in SF as people are encouraged to wear 'fancy dress.' Yes, that's Australian for 'costume' .. makes me giggle every time. Although, I'm proud to say that SF still wears the crown when it comes to creative costumes, debaucherous behavior, naked people and keg toting during an organized race.
Mike and I finished the 14 km race, running the whole way! We were pleasantly surprised given we'd been fighting some foot/ankle pain recently and hadn't really trained much. The course had beautiful ocean views and we got to run through several areas that neither of us had seen yet. We had fun running with our friends Mitch and Ellaine and celebrating post race with sausages and beer on the beach...nothing like grease and booze to help the body recover, ha!
Sep 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM Wow! This looks like so much fun. I'm so excited to do Bay to Breakers now that we've moved back :)