Bay to Breakers 2007: Tres Fridas

Ran Bay to Breakers again yesterday. It was a fun race. This year we decided to dress up as Frida Kahlo. Mary and I stayed up till 2 in the morning the night before putting the finishing touches on our costumes. Actually I put in practically zero effort, but was surprised at how well it turned out. Mary was Frida from her painting "The Broken Column," which I thought was totally cool. Mary's friend wore an Adams' family wig and curled the braids up a la Frida. I put roses in my hair which for some reason negated the fact that my hair is short and made me look very Frida-esque. I thought we looked great:Here's a pic of a tortilla. I finally got a good answer to my question of WHY tortillas? Mary said they're organic confetti. That works for me. I sent this baby flying right after I took the pic:
This year it took us 35 minutes to cross the start line:
There were the usual naked people and people hauling carts of alcohol and really funny and really horrendous costumes. My favorite Bay to Breakers regulars are the group of people who dress up as salmon and start at the finish line and end at the starting line. Isn't that cool?And here we are running up the Hayes Street Hill, which is not as hard as it looks on TV. I think the monobrow kind of suits me--isnt' that scary?:
And here are the breakers. We wanted to go sit on the beach, but the sand was blowing so hard we had to turn around, but not before I got this pic:
We entered the costume contest, but alas, we didn't win. It was cool though because all throughout the race people would ask to take pics with us or others would yell, "Frida! Hey Frida!" which made us happy because at least they knew who we were supposed to be.

See ya there next year!