Remember those New Year’s Resolutions? Cash them in at the 27th Annual Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon & 5K in Golden Gate Park on February 7th, 2010.
Online registration ends February 4th, but they might fill up before then.
See you there!
Running down Fell Street the wrong way looks like fun. As seen last year
How did you prepare for Thanksgiving on Wednesday afternoon? Probably you were stealing iPhones off of MUNI’s N Judah? No? Really? All right, well somebody was, a teenaged (or tweenaged) girl, in fact.
Par for the course, you say? Well this iPhone was recovered after pursuit from marathoner Chris Phipps. Read all about it on Murphstahoe’s Holier Than You Blog.
And read the informative Tweets below.
See? NextTheft works sometimes. Just like NextMUNI:
via Jamison, somewhat. Click to expand.
Here are the revelatory Tweets from Canabalt-loving Chris Phipps:
“A thief just stole the iPhone of the woman sitting next to me on muni. I jumped off the train, ran after her & caught her in reply to Im4tun8″Echofon from thuntil the SFPD arrived 4:50 PM Nov 25
I yelled “I’m a marathon runner, I will catch you…eventually” 3:46 PM Nov 25th from Echofon
Woman got her iphone back, called 911 & SFPD were here within 3 minutes. 3:48 PM Nov 25th from Echofon
@jeffremer I don’t know about heroic. The thief was a 16yo girl. Had it been a 200 pound guy, I don’t know what I’d do if I caught him 4:01 PM Nov 25th from Echofon
@munialerts N Judah @ Noe & Duboce. Around 3:40 PM4:16 PM Nov 25th from Echofon in reply to munialerts
@Im4tun8 Thanks. Several others in the park who were witnesses stopped to help detain & watch the suspect. Echofon from th. 3:45 PM Nov 25″
So, the next time you see some Apple product flying out the rear door of your MUNI vehicle, ask yourself, What Would Chris Phipps Do?
More than 2700 walkers raised more than $6 million this weekend in the 7th Annual San Francisco Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Sign up by tonight for the 2010 walk and save $20 off the registration fee.
Here’s a team in Golden Gate Park. Click to expand:
And here’s the finish line at Speedway Meadow, the place where the 2009 Golden Gate Renaissance Faire won’t happen this year. Check the photos.
Each walker raised at least $1800 in donations from friends. If they didn’t come up with all the dough, then they committed to pay the remainder from their own credit cards. Thusly:
“If you have not yet met your donation minimum you may choose the deferred commitment option to guarantee the minimum donation amount. A deferred commitment is your promise to fundraise for two months after the event in order to meet your minimum of $1,800.”
(That’s a lot of commitment.)
Speaking of which, check out the Yelp ratings – five stars each from the eleven committed alpha females of course, but only three stars from the sole dude, who points out a little history of the event involving Dan Pallotta and Pallotta Teamworks:
“Litigation lasted until 2005, w/ Avon being awarded $19,525,639.00 of it’s $20 million counterclaim. The court determined that Pollatta had lost money running some of the AIDS Rides & used the profitable Breast Cancer Walk money to pay for losses. A few days after the news the company abruptly laid off its entire staff nationwide & closed the doors.”
Hmmm. Rumors, accusations, and finger-pointing abounded when people found out how much of the money raised was being used to pay Pallotta Teamworks for organizing events all over the country. Of course, Mr. Pallotta defended his thesis about how ya gotta spend money to make money, or something like that. Regardless, there was a backlash against Pallotta and his Lexus and his large HQ, and so, Pallotta Teamworks ain’t putting on the show no mo. Anyway…
Congratulations to all the walkers! See you next year!
More deets after the jump.
Mark your calendars:
“Baseball’s Perfect Address” Hosts Inaugural Half Marathon. Giants Enterprises announced today that it has partnered with San Francisco-based sports management and marketing firm Evolve Sports to produce a first-of-its-kind road race to be held in June 2010. The “Giant Race” consists of a half marathon, a 5K, and a kids “Final Mile.” The course will lead runners through San Francisco’s historic streets and finish on the field at AT&T Park, “baseball’s perfect address” and home of the San Francisco Giants.
Sweet photo from mtmont via Flickr
GIANTS ENTERPRISES JOINS
WITH EVOLVE SPORTS TO PRODUCE 2010 ROAD RACE
More deets after the jump:
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, so that means it’s time for ten thousand souls to go for a jog in the popular 2009 Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon & 5K Fun Run. And just like last year, they started early and didn’t mess up Fell, Oak and Golden Gate Park (unlike the annual Bay to Breakers footrace, let’s say.)
Speaking of Kaiser, apply for some health insurance today – there are all kinds of different plans these days. (And don’t forget the San Francisco Health Plan, if you qualify.)
Do you get this happy when you jog? Consider signing up for the 2010 race. The 2009 benficiaries of the Kaiser include Koret Family House, the Harbor Light Center for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, and Support for Families of Children with Disabilities. Click to expand:
SF Weekly writer Joe Eskenazi would be pleased to see that the Panhandle’s expen$ive, trucked-in-from-Kentucky public toilet was fully operational. (Don’t queue up, ladies, just use the men’s room – they won’t care.)
Going the wrong way down Fell Street. Can you see all the people on Oak in the background?
Here’s the course. You’ll be able to find the full race results here and here.
See you next year!
All the deets, after the jump. (more…)
Nike encouraged people to “run like a girl” today in San Francisco:
“RUN LIKE A GIRL with 20,000 other women at The Nike Women’s Marathon, a Marathon and Half Marathon in San Francisco benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
One of the leaders in Golden Gate Park this morning.
How far would you run for a Tiffany keychain?
Here’s what they want you to believe: the route of the Bay to Breakers footrace is all downhill after topping the Hayes Street Hill. From the website:
ING Bay to Breakers is a 12K (7.46 miles) course. From sea level at the Embarcadero the course rises steeply along Hayes Street Hill. Around the 2.5-mile mark runners climb an 11.15% grade between Fillmore and Steiner, bringing them to the highest point in the race, approximately 215 feet above sea level. The remainder of the course gradually flows downhill alongside the Panhandle and through Golden Gate Park.
But that’s simply not true. Take a look at this elevation profile. See? After dipping down a bit the course continues to rise and reaches its highest point in Golden Gate Park. So there’s a reason why it feels you’re going uphill after conquering the Hayes Street Hill – you are going uphill.
Thousands of runners are in Golden Gate Park today preparing for tomorrow’s race. Going to the west uphill in the Panhandle:
Why does the mainstream media repeat a falsehood year after year? Laziness, mostly.
But check for yourself, if you want. Mike did last year and came to this conclusion:
According to the Garmin GPS I was using, the highest point is indeed in GG Park, not the top of Hayes Street Hill.
So plan your racing strategy accordingly.
Have fun tomorrow!
Inline Speed Skating – it’s an actual sport. This was the scene yesterday in GGP, where speedy skaters managed not to kill any babies in strollers. (How’s that, NIMBY’s?)
Competitors tended to bunch up into clumps on the straights and then stretch out into a line in the high-speed turns. Click to enlarge:
A sprint to the finish line. Wouter Hebbrecht managed to hold off this group and attain second place.
Nastassia Hamor, in blue, gets a chance to rest while slowing down for a hairpin turn. She came in fourth place:
Men:
Women
See you next year!
