Zazzle Bay to Breakers 12k By The Numbers

  • 1.75 Million - estimated number of participants that the race has had in its 100 year history
  • 2,250,000 - average number of page views our website gets in a year
  • 472,440.945 - inches in the 7.46 mile (12 kilometer) course
  • 96,629 - liters of water (25,529 gallons) distributed at our water stations (enough to "power" a slip-n-slide for 51.1 hours)
  • 90,000 - number of recyclable water cups used per race (almost 6 miles of cups if placed end to end)
  • 80,000 - number of spectators, volunteers and staff who join the participants along the course on race day
  • 80,000 - number of safety pins handed out at Expo in 2011
  • 78,769 - number of registered runners who participated in 1986, the year the Bay to Breakers made the Guinness Book of World Records with 110,000 total participants
  • 55,000 - number of registered participants in 2011
  • 52,648 - number of people who registered online (versus using a paper form) in 2011
  • 40,000 - number of people who come to Expo over two days in 2011
  • 16,000 - feet of barricade (over 3 miles) line portions of the course
  • 2,000 - number of volunteers who help out on race weekend
  • 1,200 - number of portable toilets installed for the race in 2011
  • 250 - number of Red Cross staff and volunteers stationed at first aid tents
  • 100 - number of times the race has been run since 1912 (that's every year since 1912)
  • 43 - number of consecutive years Harry Cordellos (a blind participant) has run the race; he swears he can point out every pothole along the course
  • 121 - number of finishers in the first race in 1912
  • 25 - number of registrants in the 1963 race
  • 17 - Number of San Francisco neighborhoods the race course touches (the race requires permits for city, state, and federal lands)
  • 1 - Number of days a year that San Francisco comes together to run across town and show its many shapes, sizes and colors; always the third Sunday in May