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Here are some early images from today's tamed Bay 2 Breakers race.
Sammy Kitwara of Kenya was the male winner of today's race, with Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia snatching the women's race.
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Hotter'n Ross Mirkarimi's ass out there today
RE: last pic -- do you think that those two are standing knee-deep in it?
I've been photographing B2B, from start to finish, and every year I stand at the same location; this year's event didn't seem any different to me. What I did notice was that there was far more trash left behind; more passed out or vomiting women, and less police presence - at least at my spot. The drinking and floats remained the same.
I'm working on posting photos to my Flickr site.
Absolutely. I spent a little bit of the morning in the east panhandle, where most of the reporters and all of the cops apparently feared to tread. If anything, it was rowdier than usual. Despite hundreds of porta-potties there was scarcely a non-pissed-on tree in the park, and ladies... whoever told you there's nothing sexier than a disheveled woman squatting and emptying her bladder on a bush in full view of everyone has been lying to you. There was NO police presence AT ALL.
Don't get me wrong... I'm all for people having fun and dressing up and even drinking in public but this was just gross. Fucking AMATEURS!
Fell and Cole didn't seem too bad when I was there around, say, 11 or so. There was, technically, police presence, but barely. Still, I didn't see any pissing or vomiting. A few hours later though some girl started loudly carrying on about apparently getting piss all over her flip-flops right outside my window, but I have absolutely no idea when anyone bothered to go a block over to take a piss on the edge of the curb.
I've had far more incidents of my loud jackass neighbors and their drunken friends pissing on my bedroom windows in the middle of the night than I saw at B2B.
davey k: I have to agree with you. I'm glad people appeared to be having fun, but the Panhandle was a disgusting mess -- worse than I've ever seen it. It was still in bad shape this morning.
I also realized that after the runners have passed, the rest of B2B is like a gigantic Straight Pride Parade (with their LGBT supporters in the mix). I'm all for straight people having their chance to celebrate, but they could learn from their LGBT brethren (who are street fair veterans) and realize that public vomiting (which I saw happening several times off of JFK Blvd in GG Park) is nothing to be proud of. Also, leaving the garbage strewn across the grounds is also not cool. Anyway, I think the Panhandle could have used a lot more garbage bins and recycling bins.
More people should consume pot and drink less at B2B. I think the dynamics would change for the better.
The Academy of Sciences was very quiet and the Botanical Gardens was also stupendous yesterday.
"I also realized that after the runners have passed, the rest of B2B is like a gigantic Straight Pride Parade."
That is genius. From this moment on that is what I will call B2B.
I think Brock (or Jay Barrman?) said that here last week; of course, I'm not sure SFist coined it either.
And another thing... I am not stepping foot in the Panhandle again until we get a good, steady rain!
I live on the Panhandle and this year seemed even worse than last year. Maybe because of the heat. I do know that the dahlias I planted in front of my pad were stomped upon repeatedly, which kind of pisses me off.
It's like the more they try to constrain this nonsense the harder people try to get fucked up and stay fucked up.
The Angry Young Man had his dahlias stepped on, did he?
That would make anyone angry.
I skipped town. It worked perfectly.
The upside is that Dolores Park was rather peaceful and gentile yesterday.
gentile, huh?
My Red Cross volunteer at the finish line was uneventful, about the same casualties as other years; on the 1 1/2 hour N-Judah ride back to downtown, nobody even beat up the noobs using the door open bars as handholds.
FWIW both the Sunset resident I rode back with and the random MUNI fan who struck up a conversation with me on the way back said the line is crawling with fare inspectors during the morning commute.
I noticed that the kegs were mostly gone -- and replaced with Hard Alcohol in flasks and camelbacks.
People tend to get far drunker on the strong stuff.
The law of unintended consequences... ban kegs and get really really messed up people.
I have heard of this B2B race but haven't really seen it.
What I saw this year was like many previosu years, a race more honestly called Bay to Haight Street, or for the really lazy, Page Street to Haight Street.
The bars on Haight were full by 10AM and there were more side street parties than Haight Street Fair day. I saw a lot of folks running or walking west at the Panhandle, but from my perspective, the typical runner, in full costume, started the race by parking their car on Frederick and then going down the hill to Haight for brunch and a full day of boozing.
It was hard to gauge police presence because I kept seeing what I thought were police only to realize later were people in the Reno 911 costumes - weird on a hot day like Sunday.
I don't get the "No Runnng." unless the person who wrote it can't spell.
It's a shame that so many people have to act like such assholes, because yesterday was the first time I've ran it and it was by far the most fun I've ever had running a race what with the crowds and music and views and costumes and even the drunks and/or the nakeds, good and bad. I'd hate to see it turn into a standard roadrace but people can't keep treating people's homes/communities like a toilet.
Even living along the park in the Sunset, I didn't see much of this terrible shit from certain participants the previous two years I've been here because I think the worst of them never make it in there. I feel bad for the folks that live in the Panhandle.
It's one icky day for 364 fabulous ones. Not a bad deal really.
Wow - I feel lucky. I was in the Panhandle all day and, while I did see a LOT of drunks, I never saw one person puking or pissing - not that it matters. That park is always nasty. I quit walking my dog there and started taking him to Buena Vista after he pulled a pair of shitty tighty whities out of a bush.
No incidents to report in front of my Page St. pad, either. Weird.
The N-Judah yesterday was horrible. I felt so bad for all those yesterday who relied on the N-Judah to get home from the beach, especially the old blind man I saw waiting forever for a train.
Also, if I find Mr. Bunny B on the streets I'm going to hurt him. A-hole tagged my house with his youtube URL. I guess that's what happens when retards in bunny costumes are waiting an hour plus for a damn N.
While having some post-race drinks at my local yesterday, the people we were sharing a table with mentioned seeing that with a shake of the head...sorry that happened to you.
For what it's worth, taking the N downtown in the morning to the start line was really calm and easy. Glad I didn't have to fuck with Muni to get home.
What I find fascinating is that there were so many people outside yesterday (my house is on an N stop for Christ's sake) and someone had to see him do this. If I saw someone tag a person's house I would call the non-emergency police line while/right after it happened. Something. I really don't want to turn into one of those not in my backyard people but I can see why they are that way. People can have fun/get drunk and run naked while respecting people's property...it's not impossible!
File a police report, and post a blog item shaming him. I bet they could force him to pay for cleanup. (Google will know who owns the youtube account.)