You'll have to wait for the nudie booties :( but here's the Hayes Street Hill...

This morning I was finally feeling recovered and lucid enough to create my race report for the Zazzle Bay to Breakers 100th Anniversary run. I began putting it together, and I maxxed out my Picasa photo storage thing!

I even foolishly deleted pictures from my album (that I now will need to go and retrieve somehow :P) in an attempt to create more space... it didn't work :(  So I sprung the big bucks to increase my storage... yeah, all five smackers. Because I know how badly you all want to see the nudie booties ;-)

Picasa and Google are telling me that I may need to wait 24 hours until the storage is available to me... criminey. That's a WHOLE DAY! Don't they know people are waiting for pictures of the naked runners from the Bay to Breakers?

I am giving you a taste of the race in these videos... which are on youtube and so not a part of this lame-o Picasa storage fiasco... whew!

I really wanted to video myself going all the way up the half-mile hill, but I didn't have my mansuit zipped all the way up and I pussied out :P Guess I run like a girl... All of the clips are pretty short and if I had a clue about editing, I could probably have united them into one... but I am not as savvy as people seem to think I am.

Here is Part One... in which I annoyingly turn the camera around...

Almost halfway up... sorry there's no steady-cam in use... but I get major points for talking!

I am so bummed I didn't get a better shot of this... these guys were HILARIOUS and you can only see literally 2 seconds of them. It was a team of about 15 guys dressed as SALMON and all in a line going THE WRONG WAY!!!!

Don't blink or you'll miss them.

I started filming in this one because I really thought we were THERE... at the summit...

but we weren't...

And then....

woo hooooooo!!!!!!

I made it from the start to the top of the hill in 27:55... far ahead of my desired 30:00. The adrenaline of the crowd was intense and it was super hard to rein in any speed that you could fit in the tiny little space you were squeezed into in that massive crowd. As you can see, it hadn't really thinned out even by the top of the killer hill. That hill is 11+% incline for a good half-mile.

So there's your taste, kind readers! I'll be back with the rest as soon as the storage issue is resolved :)

Thank you for your continued patience.

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