Bay to Breakers

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Bay to Breakers is an annual footrace in San Francisco, California, typically on the third Sunday of May. The phrase "Bay to Breakers" reflects the fact that the race starts at the northeast end of the downtown area a few blocks from The Embarcadero (adjacent to San Francisco Bay) and runs west through the city to finish at the Great Highway (adjacent to the Pacific coast, where breakers crash onto Ocean Beach). The complete course is 7.46 miles (12 km) long. Bay to Breakers is well known for many participants wearing costumes. The 1986 edition set a Guinness World Record for being the world's largest footrace with 110,000 participants, until that was surpassed by the 2010 City2Surf event in Sydney. Attendance in 2015 was reported at roughly 50,000. Attendance in 2025 was around 25,000.

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