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Thank you. Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. And now from San Francisco, the 75th examiner. Beta breakers highlight show. Hi everybody. I'm wayne walker. And joining me tonight is Diane and I add the world record holder for the longest swimming history and on

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loan to us this evening from abc Sports. Now you ran this race last year, worked at this year, Jeff fund both times. There's no choice. I'll take this desk here. Actually, I missed some of the hoopla. I like being out there mixing with the crowds. But

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this way I got to see everything. I got to see every person in the race just about. I loved it too. We've got a lot involved in this one. Today. Today was the 75th anniversary of the examiner. Beta breakers. No other race in the world. Not

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even the boston marathon Has been run for 75 consecutive years. And in the time honored tradition, people began arriving for this year's race before dawn. Thank you. Three hours before start time. And already hundreds of the more serious runners have gathered in the cold to secure

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their place in the pack with hopes of record times. And as the human wall starts to form thousands, more of the run for fun types awaken the city with their festive mood, ready to join the world's largest moving block party. Yeah, good morning and welcome to

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the bay to breakers Race. Let me entertain you. We're in from boston for this race. We've been in some pretty big ones. I've done Bonnie belle with 8000 women. Never anything like this. It's incredible. Our Channel five crew was out in full force this morning. Beginning

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at the starting line. I'm David Jackson. At the starting line of this year's Beta Breakers race. The coldest and windiest starting line we've had in many years Already. The human walls in place holding back the expected 100,000 runners running this year. And in just a few

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moments, we'll be talking with a couple of special high school seniors who will be at the lead of this year's pack. I'm kate kelly and I'll be covering the women's race from this motorcycle and sidecar. This is the toughest field ever assembled and we could be

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seeing a new course record for the women today. Hi, this is Glenn Kramon from the san Francisco examiner and I'll be reporting to you today from this motorcycle sidecar in front of the lead runner. Hello, I'm Doug McConnell at the top of the ominous Haze Street

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Hill. Now, this is the summit of the race. It's about a half a mile climb for the runners from the base of the hill up to this point. Very, very steep. They've got to come up about 250 ft. But the men and women who get here

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first have got a great chance to win the race. I wanted to cut on centipede patrol here in the panhandle where we will be talking to people who joined feet to run this race. I'm doug Murphy at the water station. This is the oasis in the

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morning for the runners, we have what they want. Cool clear water top of the morning to you. I'm Mike Hagen is all dressed up in honor of the 75th running of the examiner. Beta Breakers. We've got lots of places to go today and this is how

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we're going to get there. The all new Haggis mobile under the command of Captain Clarence Ellers. It's an all electric vehicle in which we're going to swing out into the massive humanity. Following the seated runners. Look for some zany people. Zany costumes hand out some official

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headbands and we might even stop and talk to a few folks. I'm joe Fonzi at the finish line. Two years ago, Ibrahim Hussein and paul cummings sprinted down this stretch of the great highway before Hussein won his first Beta breakers Championship. I'll have interviews with the

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men's and women's winners here today. This is Richard Hart Also at the finish line awaiting the arrival of the first centipede of course, last year was the first year that the lead woman runner beat the first centipede, we'll see whether they can do that again here

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this year. We're waiting for the costume crazies at the finish line and a high above all of this is Dave Mackel Hatton, But we never did hear from Dave McCall. Hatton because heavy fog grounded him at the beginning of today's race. That same fog blanketed the

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course from start to finish, veteran runner Walt Stack said this was the coldest start he could remember and he's been running this race for over 20 years. The men's field was the best ever for this year's race. Ibrahim Hussein of kenya has won the examiner Beta

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breakers the past two years, but he's been running inconsistently the past two months. He failed to place in a race two weeks ago. That is the same distance as the Beta breakers, but he told a competitor that he was saving himself for today's race. Edye Stone

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of Utah, maybe Hussein's toughest competition while he is new to the beta breakers course, he's been running quite well this spring. He now holds the second fastest time by an American this year, in the 10K. A. Man who was always in the lead pack is Jeff

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smith, former winner of the boston marathon. While he may get off to a fast start, it would be a surprise if he finished in the lead since he was recovering from a marathon just two weeks ago. The chief bridesmaid of the Beta breakers is paul, cummins

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of Utah. He has two seconds in the third in the three years, he's run the race, but he's still a contender until recently Cummins held the world record in the half marathon and the man who broke that record is Mark Kirk, he's one of the fastest

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men at the Beta breakers distance, but the question is whether recently sprained ankle may cut his feed. Also running were two former world class competitors, former olympic marathon winner, frank shorter and two time Beta breakers winner Rod Dixon. The women's field was also first class, two

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of the top three women in the world of road racing went head to head today for only the second time since the 1984 Olympics Worldwide. There are two famous faces in women's road racing. Joan Benoit Samuelson was the gold medalist in the historic first ever women's

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olympic marathon in Los Angeles, the silver medalist at the Games was a slim blond Norwegian named Greta fights today is only the second time they've run against each other since the Summer Games as champions. They both run to win and we expect fireworks between them today.

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Bytes is the faster runner at the bay to breakers distance as a matter of fact at all distances. But the marathon, but joanie Benoit is guts personified and Greta never takes the tough new Englander for granted if I shall beach on the night. I have to

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run very fast and I also have to also need need a little bit of luck. I always race against myself in a race, but you never take the competition lately. And certainly not this field because Greta, her name speaks for herself, so to speak. Joanie has

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suffered leg problems all winter in the achilles, the hamstrings and the knees, but she doesn't enter races unless she intends to win. She won the Beta breakers last year. She holds the course record and she is fiercely determined to keep her name at the top of

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the list here. Last year she was game enough to even sport a pair of lobster mitts for her native Maine. And we're all very curious about johnny's costume today as the human wall strained to hold back the runners. Don Blue counted down the start of the

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race. 54321. Goodbye, you're on your way. Are you moving? The beta breakers is underway. Looking like Ibrahim Hussein right there on the lead now. It's really an amazing story about him, Diana, he's won the last two years and he's really one wire to wire. He has

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never been behind in this race and he came in off a race two weeks ago and spoke and he finished 14th in that race. Edye Stone who is in this race. Uh, was second in that race and Hussein said, I'm saving myself for debated breakers and

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he's out there. Now let's now go to Glenn Kramon with the lead man. Hi Wayne. Yes, we are running about a quarter of a mile into the race. And Ibrahim Hussein, who has never trailed in this race is in first place, leading a pack of about

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10 runners, a much bigger impact than we've seen in recent years to his left. Number 2, 38 from Australia is Andrew Lloyd and Edye Stone creeping up on Lloyd's left is number nine and he is the taller man in the blue trunks and he and Ibrahim

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Hussein are expected to be the leaders within about a mile. We'll be right back. Yeah, The 75th examiner. Beta breakers highlight show is being brought to you in part by American Express Hyundai Club Med and by Home Savings. The principal contenders in today's race took part

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in a rather undramatic opening mile. Glenn Kramon was with the leading men. The leader right now is number 1 71. David Walters from Orlando florida. Not expected to be a factor much later in the race. Right behind him is the lead pack that includes Ibrahim Hussein

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in the red and Edye Stone, the taller runner in the blue, we're just coming up on the one mile mark now, very close and we'll set it for you. It's actually going to be a slower mile than it has been in the past. Much, much slower

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smile. As a matter of fact, we're coming up on 4 38 for 39 they're gonna lead runner Walters has run it in for 40 to the runner is right behind him in 4 44. So that was a very slow first mile. It's a huge pack. The

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biggest I've seen in the 10 years I've been covering the race. The most noticeable in the red shorts just to the left Walters is Ibrahim Hussein. The Hussein's left is Edye Stone. These are the two favorites to eye stones. Left boston marathon winner, Jeff smith to

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the right of walter's on the right side of your screen would be marked the world half marathon record holder right behind him with the blonde hair and the yellow is Andrew Lloyd, the City two surf winner and from Australia paul Cummings, one of the top three

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finishes in the last three. Beta breakers is right behind I Stone. It's a terrific race so far when we just say that the runners made their turn on Ninth Street, they'll be crossing mission and market hitting Hayes and heading for the Civic Auditorium camera there also,

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I see Rod Dixon has just moved into the crack. He's the champion of the Beta breakers from the 82 83 races. While the lead runners had found their rhythm and were well on their way, thousands of people were still just approaching the start line. One of

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the hardest things about running the Beta breakers isn't negotiating the 7.5 mile course or climbing the Hayes Street Hill, but rather just getting across the starting line while we're almost a half hour into this race, the great runners are almost finished. I'm at the starting line.

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These people haven't even started yet. They say 100,000 runners today, but I think 100,000 have already come by here and it looks like there's another 100,000 back. Their beta breakers. It's incredible for 1986. Is this the life of the T shirt would rather be skiing on

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snow, but we enjoy skiing so much. We'll ski on anything. Within this crowd of over 100,000 aspiring athletes lie some very serious runners. Just what they're serious about. We're not sure. Oh, we're dead serious. You can tell by our expressions were very serious. We run at

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least three or four blocks a day. Eat a very high carbohydrate diet, right? Yeah. Many hostess cupcakes that we could possibly packin. We hope to finish in about three weeks. A damn serious runner. Don't I look like a serious runner. Killer. Killer. Go, go, go. We're

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both from France and this is amazing. This must be a religious ceremony happens every sunday here. They tell me, I'm actually so I trained for a long time for this and what do I get? I get to stand here, but I'm I am going to have

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a good time. I promise you that no matter what it takes. We've been sprinting since the beginning, defending champion Joan Benoit Samuelson and all. World Greta Weitz headed an outstanding women's field today, Kate kelly was on hand as Benoit Samuelson invites began their battle. Well, rain

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right now, Joni has just passed Greta fights here as we make the corner from Howard to ninth Street. Joni is making a lead here, coming out ahead. Greta is not very far behind, she's about one step behind her. Greta went out ahead in this race and

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we clocked her at an unofficial time for that first mile at a pace of 5:02 for that first mile. That is an incredibly fast pace. Both we have mentioned both had injuries, but Greta fights in a very unusual statement for her. She's always extremely gracious and

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always sort of undermines her abilities. She has said that she's going to take this rice out hard from the very first step. And I think the picture that we just saw min ago was one of the best pictures I've seen to compare that Joan Benoit leans

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forward, tough little muscular stride and Greta fights with her track speed stands up almost straight men now are approaching the Hay Street Hill as we look at Joan Benoit Samuelson who was leading the women's back, the men now approaching one of the critical marks of this

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race, the Hay Street Hill, and we want to be there when they start up. And let's go now to Glenn Kramon. Okay, wayne, You know, it's interesting to see how the runners have all learned that the Hay Street Hill, you have to be in the lead

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pack or you're not going to win this race. And so we have just a gigantic pack, more than 10 runners as we come just through a mile to about 9 32 and they're still running slowly and they're running cautiously because they know there's a lot of

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wind ahead And they realize they have to get set up. They can't be more than about 10 yards behind as they get into the Hay Street Hill right now, they're trying to establish a rhythm to concentrate on these pills. They're not worrying about the other runners

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yet. They're just trying to get their their own body set for this climb up the Hay Street Hill, which we will begin in about another block or two. The strategy the runners use on the Hay Street Hill has been a major determining factor in who wins

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this race. We'll see how they took the hill when we come back. Mm hmm. I had always been a serious athlete until last year when I ran in my first beta breakers and I really learned the fun and ridiculous side of sports. And for some reason

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this is a race that brings out the crazy in everyone. Mm hmm. Some of us feel sorry for guys like I, Stone, Hussein and Dixon, they had to work today. Is that any way to spend your beta breakers. Sunday when these guys left the rest of

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the field behind, they left the fun. You can stretch that achilles tendon. These folks would rather stretch the imagination. You might call this creative running. They're not here to race. But to be seen to make a statement and to acknowledge their parents, This so called sea

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of humanity is actually a sea of insanity, these people are committed and if they're not, they ought to be. There were some recurring themes this year. The statue of Liberty is very popular as his president Reagan and who would have thought Godzilla would have found the

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time to run a foot race? What's really disgusting is how many people complete this race without really ever running? Some people couldn't decide what to wear and some couldn't decide what to say. So now, you know the two ways to win a beta breakers race, you

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can either huff and puff and push yourself to a record time or you can laugh, drink and party your way to a good time, tough choice, huh? Okay. The infamous Hay Street Hill is famous for deciding the result of the beta breakers race and once again

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tradition would be served today looks like Edye stone leading right now and Ibrahim Hussein tucked in behind him drafting technique, as we mentioned earlier, there is quite a brisk wind this morning and Hussein of course is using a shield there and the pretty smart tactic, most

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of the top men and women both said this year that in the past it's always been said that at the top of the Haight Street Hill, you kind of knew who the winner was going to be. But Edye Stone and Greta fights and most of them

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said that this year the talent is so deep in both, in both fields that you're going to see the wonders very close to the finish line together now Hussein, I think coming up a little bit, they seem to be side by side, that's where he made

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his move a couple of years ago and I see paul cummins up there also now the three of them, it's Ice Stone in the middle, paul cummins on the left and Hussein on the right two years ago and his first win here, Hussein made a surge

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on the hill, put about 10 or 15 yards between him and paul cummins who was second cummins got it back on the downhill side, but I stone now it looks very determined. This is, hey ST Hill is, you know, just about a half mile along .43

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Actually, if you want to be specific about it and Ice Stone has said through the week also that similar to what Alberto Salazar used to do, if you're running against a runner who's got better foot speed than you do wear him out early and I Stone

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said he was going to take it out as hard as he could and here he is trying to drain some of that speed from Hussein so that if he has to sprint a quarter of a mile, even 200 yards at the end, maybe we're saying we'll

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lose a little of that zip, let's check back now with kate kelly and the lead women runners. Okay Wayne. We're about 2.5 miles up as we made the climate in the Hay Street Hill. Greta and Joan were running side by side, but they're having difficulty in

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the crowd here, Joan has had to drop behind about a yard. Greta wearing number eight, joan wearing number two is what I can understand. The Aggie Centipedes are right there with them as we climb the Hay Street Hill. It's important to point out these two women

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are keeping in contact. They know where each other is in this crowd and that's difficult for the women, but important. So they know where their competition is. Joan. Benoit Samuelson said that Spectators helped her handle the challenge of the Hay Street Hill. Let's listen to what

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she had to say. Well, I mean, you look ahead and you see the hill and you go, oh no, the hills coming. And then you see these people and the people almost take over the hill. So the hill doesn't seem insurmountable at that time because the

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people are really cheering and it's over before. You know, this year, Channel Five tried something that's never been done before. We ask the best minds at stanford and cal to come up with the first ever head count of how many people really run this race. And

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we positioned the stanford team atop the Hay Street hill and cal was at the water station. Richard Hart tried to get a sneak preview of their techniques. Okay, what we have here is, um, you have your basic Reynolds transport there and we put in there a

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little equation. If none of this, mathematical mumbo jumbo makes any sense to you, you're not alone. These engineering students at stanford have concocted an ingenious formula for counting runners in this year's beta breakers. Don't forget the velocity gradient. Unfortunately, you need a degree in astrophysics to

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understand it. Yeah, that's it. We'll modify the mass flow coefficient. We do know that they'll be marking off an area on the top of Hayes Hill and then using a Polaroid camera, they'll count the number of runners passing through that area at any given time. And

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that's the way you do it integrate this flux over time and you get a total number of people. But from there, it's anybody's guess what they're doing. The method that students from cal will be using is well, how should we say it a little more basic,

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They will be using a computer. But any similarity to stanford stops. There are real ace in the hole is the visual integrator. Cal admitted that their top secret prototype Head counter still has a few bugs to be worked out, but their formula for success is solid,

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fun times. Fun times. Fun equals more fun. Right guys good luck guys and made the best school win. We'll have the winner of that contest and the final tally just a little bit later, Edye Stone not only put on a marvelous show traveling up the Hay

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Street hill, but he was magnificent on the downside. Here's how much he impressed Glenn Kramon. Edye Stone is just blowing away Ibrahim Hussein and everybody else in the field, everything Hussein is really laboring, but high Stone is going up the hill as fast as anybody ever

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has, He's really putting his move on early, Hussein has fallen way back and the question on Edye Stone really is, can he last in this race? He's been known for taking out race is very fast and then struggling to hold at the end of the race.

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We mentioned Glenn earlier that I Stone finished second in the Bloomsday race and spoke in a couple of weeks ago and he said he lost that because of a tactical air. He let Sinclair the winner get out on him and about the last mile he's attempting

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the same thing now. Exactly right Wayne. The one difference is that this on this course, he's all alone. Whereas the Bloomsday two weeks ago there was a pack about five people with him and he's still an inexperienced roadrunner, he's used to running on the tracks and

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he didn't expect the move to come from behind him and this time I think he's taking no chances, he wanted to get a big lead, he knows that if some of the other runners are milers and they have faster kicks at the end, that he does.

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So he has to get ahead of them for the downhill part and the sprint to the finish. So many people who don't run think that the uphill is the only difficult part of the race, but if you're out there, the reason a good courses designed in

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an equal number of uphill downhill and flat Greta fights here, probably downhill running maybe close to five minutes a mile. It takes a certain technique also. And you would think that with longer legs like ice Stone also would be a better downhill runner. But Joan Benoit

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has a quick turnover, dropped back a little bit here. I'm surprised it could be your achilles are bothering her. She's usually lickety split down the downhills. But like I said earlier in the race is serious and it's quite a surprise to because we talked earlier that

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Joan Benoit is reputed to be a much better hill runner than Greta fights coming up. A look at what makes a world class runner. Is there a difference between a world class runner and the average everyday runner? We asked tried analyst bob Pritchard to compare the

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running mechanics of today's leader Edye Stone with one of today's average runners? One of the most important mechanics to look for is a wide stride angle. That means that somebody can take a longer stride length without over striding and they can finish the race with taking

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fewer steps. Here's an illustration of how critical stride angle can be Bruce. Chernick is a typical jogger who runs the beta breakers from the middle of the pack, His maximum stride angle is about 70°. World class runner Edye Stone, on the other hand, has a stride

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angle of about 90 degrees because of the difference in stride length, Bruce will take approximately 8000 strides to complete the race, while Ed will only take 5000 and so by the end of the race, Bruce is going to finish the race, he's gonna be a lot

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more tired and his time is going to be a lot slower because he has this shorter stride. Another critical factor is called crossover efficient runners like Ibrahim Hussein run with their feet almost parallel to each other, consequently his body is always moving straight ahead, but by

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crossing one ft in front of the other, a weekend runner can waste valuable time in lateral motion. Uh, an average runner with a three inch crossover, for instance, will add uh, several 1000 ft of lateral movement to the race. It's just the same as if they

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ran 1000 ft off the course and around 1000 ft back on Golden Gate Park provides one of the most picturesque settings for any road race in the world. We pick up the race. Now, with doug Murphy at the water station in the park Wayne, we can't

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tell you at this point who's going to win the race necessarily, but we can tell you if somebody's out of it, I stone will not take water. The elite runners are so trained at this point that they really don't need the water if they need water

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here, we know they're out of it. I still didn't take it. He looked as good as I've seen anybody come by this position the last couple of years going back to you. Exactly right. If if the elite runners stopped for water, you know, or even grabs

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them, you know, they're in a little bit of trouble, let's go now to kate kelly with the women wayne. We're in the middle of the panhandle. Actually, we're coming towards the end of the panhandle and also, joe. Benoit is dropped way back in this. Greta is

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leading the women's race, Jonas dropped back 30 yards. I have sometimes for you to give you an idea of how fast this race is going that we're going to break a record. If we keep this pace up the third mile grid around that third mile in

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a time of five minutes and 41 seconds. And you have to remember, she just ran the Hay Street Hill. She also did a very fast time on the second mile. She ran that in five minutes and 17 seconds. So we are well below the race record

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and we could be going for a new record right now. I think if you were going to make an educational film today on how to run, you just need to take a picture of Greta bites here. I think you could put a water, A can of

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water on each of those shoulders. That is perfection. She looks like a maybe a little toy toy shoulder clocking the clicking off the hands side to side and look at her, looking down. This woman wants this race. She has just broken the world record for 25

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km. She's broken the world record from eight km a couple of weeks ago. And to my mind, she's looking already towards 88 as her retirement day instead of 84. Like people thought she was going to do a couple of years ago. Meanwhile, at the Hay Street

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Hill, people were checking in with Doug McConnell. Well, we've got Jared Ainsworth here running of course, as the Eiffel Tower Jared. How's it going so far? Oh, wonderful. If this wind doesn't pick up any more, I'll do all right. If it picks up, it's gonna take

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take you with it. I'll take the bottom of the race the top will probably go the other way. Well, listen, this Eiffel Tower now, it's got an elevator in it, I think. Does it? Does it go up and down? Let's see if we can see that

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go up and down there. It goes the height of high technology. The height, snoopy, snoopy and Woodstock got to go to europe. I don't want to go to paris amazing. Well, listen, you're gonna go to hawaii, you one that, didn't you? All right, well, let's have

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a good time at the end of the race. It's been great having you and good luck. Thank you. I'll enjoy Hawaii and I appreciate this race for being what it is. Well, now we've got somebody else at the top of the Hay Street Hill. I'll tell

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you the strange kinds of animals coming up here, we've got what is this Smurf to surf? Yes, sir. Smurf to surf. We're so happy to be running today. You can't believe it. How has it been so far up the ominous Hay Street Hill? You're making terrific

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time. That's right. And all the little kids are really giving me some cheers and helping me out and I really appreciate that. Listen, Smurf is the fastest two footed animal running this race today, don't you think? Well, I'm not sure, but we're going to give it

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a heck. Alright, we have here. Now, the real team from stanford. These are the low tech, no tech counters out here there, as you can see counting around me here marking them up on the job board. This is a group of the chaperone magazine and so

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called humor magazine and stanford. Listen, what are you, what are you doing out here? Well, the thing is we say, I mean computers, lots of numbers that are not accurate. We only trust our hands and a piece of chalk. Um, these guys are taking you guys.

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Hey, wait, how many runners do you have a lot? A whole bunch. That's an accurate count if ever I saw one. Oh, absolutely. So the stanford high tech guys are competing not only against cal but against you guys and you're confident of victory. Absolutely. We, we

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feel that a lot is exactly the number here. Okay. A lot of people at the top of the history, he'll stay with us. We'll be right back what the beta breakers continues as Edye Stone and Greta White zoom toward the finish line more now from Wayne.

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Greta fights seven time winner of the new york marathon is silver medalist in the 84 olympics in the marathon and leading our beta breakers, you would get a good idea if you can look at Greta's cheeks in here. They are really like blowing in the wind

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and a fast runner. You have no idea how fast it is. I've sat out in that sidecar just like kate is today and the speed is ferocious. You barely drive your car this fast. There's not very many people going a lot faster than she is, but

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one of them is Edye Stone. Let's go to Glenn Kramon now and check with Ed I Stone has just taken this race apart from being well behind the course record. He went through mile six, 15 seconds under the course record. I haven't seen a runner behind

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him in about a mile and a half. They must be three or 400 yards behind me now. And the other thing about Edye Stone is his girlfriend, Lynn is in from Utah with him and she's about 20 yards ahead of him on the lead truck and

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they are both going to be very proud after this race because he has established himself as a world class road racer with the beta breakers. Let's check on Greta vikes now, who is the lead woman runner? And if kate kelly is listening and has contact, let's

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go to her. Alright, wait, we have, we have passed the seven mile mark just to make, Got to make that turn onto the Great Highway. Greta fights by the way, Joe Benoit is about 30 yards, dropping back now to 40 yards behind Greta fights, we are

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just now making the curve. You'll be able to see her soon from the finish line. I love the party part of the race, I guess it shows, huh? And I think, yeah, I'm a lizard all the way and I think Mike Hagen dislikes the party part

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two. He really got into the mood of this year's 75th anniversary here we have the hang of this mobile. This what, what's, what's your name dear, my name is lisa Stringfellow and we're heading out to Ocean Beach Hospital, you're going to Ocean Beach house, Is this

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is this a real thing? Well, there's, there's something jumping around in there and it ain't or dinner. I'll guarantee you that. Well, you better take off. I'll see you later if you carried him the whole way. Exactly for about the last three miles. In a matter

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of fact, we've been training this way for the last three months and we have done the Hay ST Hilda three or four times in preparation for this race. Did you guys know each other before you started this thing? Because if you didn't, you know each other

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now we met each other on the hill and he was looking for someone to carry him and I was looking for someone to carry. So it was just kind of a, you know, a natural compliment coming together and it is you guys, you guys make a

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natural team. Head off. I got to see this thing in action. Take it, take care, fellas, another bizarre moment from the vigorous mobile in more serious matters. Edye Stone and Greta Vice. We're racing towards some impressive records. We begin the swift conclusions with ice stone really

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come up on the road running scene this year. He's won the boston Milk round and won the Metro 10-K that Coors 10,000 m in the Hudson Toyota five miles. The corporations are going to love him. That's for sure. And he keeps running and the thing is

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kind of really used to running a little bit shorter races. The question here is definitely looks like he's going to, He looks tremendously strong and you notice he does the one thing that is absolutely a cardinal rule. You don't look back, you could trip, you could

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run into all kinds of little neck spasms. He's just looking straight ahead and maybe that last two yards, we'll take a look around and smile when he breaks the tape over the course. A couple of times he ran it and thought that perhaps is the place

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for him to surge is making the turn now towards the finish line. He's got about 230 yards now to the finish and it's going to be Edye Stone, the winner of the 75th examiner. Beta breakers. He will break the two year reign of Ibrahim Hussein who

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they were calling the king of the bay to breakers as late as last friday, but there will be a new king. It will be Edye Stone 24 years old out of Brigham Young University from Provo Utah, winning the Beta breakers for the very first time check

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the running time. The race record is going to just totally demolished. It looks like the race records last year by the same 34 53 was Abraham's time last year and unofficially now Edye Stone 34 minutes, 31.9 seconds. So not only a new winner this year, but

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it looks like a new Beta breakers record. We shouldn't forget also the petabytes before she ever became this. This wonderful figure on the road was two time olympic winner in the 1500 m and 800 m and she's leaving the Aggies behind with that speed now. Alright,

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I knew you were going to like that. I knew you were going to like that. So, Greta bites will be the women's winner of the 75th examiner. Beta breakers and she dominated it just as much as Edye Stone dominated the men's division. The Aggies will be

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the centipede winner and you'll see them come in. So we have, we have our three winners across an extremely fine days race record of 39 54 set just last year by Joan Benoit Samuelson and unofficially now that one is by the board, so not only to

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new winners, but to new records in the bay. To breakers, we'll be right back to talk with the winners from KPI X's Sports division. It's joe Fonzi. He was at the finish line and he talked with today's winners. Congratulations on winning the Beta breakers. First off,

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just your impressions of this race. Having a chance to finally race it and see it. It was hard. It was really hard and the lead pack was right there. We lag through the first two miles a little bit. No one really wanted to take the pace

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and once we hit Hayes Hill, we just kinda barreled it up. We got a little bit of a lead on the top and I enjoy running downhill from Utah? We've got mountains back there and I'm pretty good at running downhill. So I just unfortunately opened it

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up there and cruising on in super excited. I think I started out the first mile a little bit too fast and then Donnie came up to me during the second mile and then ran shoulder by shoulder up the haste retail and then at the top of

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the hill, I got some meters on her butt. I was expecting her all the time downhill because she's a very, very good downhill runner. So I didn't believe it until I saw the finish line that I couldn't do well wayne. I tell you out of control

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is what it's all about here on the Haggis mobile. Here's one, here's a costume going, here's the costume going crazy! Where are you from? San Francisco? How many times you ran all the way in this thing, All the way you don't have that thing super glued

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on there, do nothing. Superglue. It's all real. It's all real. You remember you heard it here First folks back here in the back where the canoe go, Here we go. Here's the canoe. Bring a canoe up here. Sweet, sweet Leilani in the back of the canoe.

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Come here, come here dear. Here we go the canoe. Where are you from? And the canoe it is represented. Is this a good time you're having here or what's the significance of the canoe, my dear, I just I asked you what the significance of the canoe

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was. You can't ask me what the significance is. Speaking of significance. We have. We even have a little a statement of universal statement. It says, striding beyond war. Here. This group is from where we're from, representing the world that were based in the United States. We

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have the whole earth represented right here on the Haggis mobile. It is. Let's let's get one big one. Big cheer. Now, gang you ready go. Yeah. All right, that's okay. One big cheer back to you wayne. This is rough out here. Rough work. We'll be right

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back with more of today's running. Of the 75th examiner. Beta breakers. Richard Hart got a chance to share the thrill of victory with a lot of people today. Listen, this is the world's greatest race, make no bones about it. The world's biggest picnic, lovely. We finished.

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They come from every corner of the globe and from all walks of life. Even the rich and famous, even billy moses star of falcon crest who had never run an event longer than two miles. This is runner's high. I'm checking into a Doctors told Robbie Benson

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not to run in a race like this after he had heart surgery 18 months ago. This is great. You know, it keeps me in shape and it makes me feel good. And you know, I mean look at this. It's it's there's a strange brotherhood here. Sisterhood

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take the sisterhood of Centipedes please. These women have run in the past as Dianne Feinstein last year in tuxedos and this year ballerinas. But the centipede to beat year after year still is or are the cal Aggies this time? Even though they were beaten by a

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woman for the second year in a row, they posted their best time ever. Under 39 minutes, 1992. Olympics is a reality for us. Richard, not everyone runs for the glory each year. Hundreds of them run for others. And that makes crossing the finish line twice as

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satisfying. All right. What's the wagon for the wagon is to carry them when they get tired? And did they? And they did. I lost my daughter two years ago on Mother's Day. I ran the Beta breakers a day after because she, she was a big runner.

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So myself and my wife and a few friends one every year. Now in memory of him, he was fighting all the time. I'm yelling more and more and more. Maybe it was the cool air this year. Maybe it was the unprecedented number of world renowned competitors,

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whatever this year was definitely the best. Yet. I think it's all right. What do you think the Beta breakers race makes you feel good about yourself. It makes you feel good about your friends. It makes you want to wrap your arms around the world and shout.

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I finished Without question. There was one very special centipede this year. Okay, this is probably the only centipede in this year's Bay to Breakers run that won't be moving on foot. This 13 person centipede from the access project in Berkeley has decided to take on the

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Beta Breakers challenge for reasons of their own. There's a few reasons we're doing as a fundraiser for access project, which provides sports and recreation for disabled people in the bay area and then also as a, as a personal challenge and then also to have a good

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time and be out here with everyone else and like everybody else before you can get to the finish, you have to go over the hill as in the haze street hill. Some of us may need a little help going up the hill. I think we'll just

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take it really slow. I know we've all pushed up hills as steeper, steeper than Hayes Street in our daily life and so it's something we can do. That was just the first leg of the hill. Not over yet. Ready to go for more. There's no possibility

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that we won't make it up on the approach to the top. It's no wonder the centipede was definitely the center of attraction. We just want to say that we can get out there and have a good time doing it also and that we're capable and that

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we can be viewed as peers and able to participate in an event that's open to everyone who had the best way to count today's runners and how many feet did pound up the Hay Street Hill? The answers when we return, it's been called big Game part

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to Not Buy us though the contest I'm talking about between cal and stanford to count how many people ran in today's race, separate all the way. What you say it all the way. This is terri territory. Forget the big game football fans. This is the contest

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that will count when the history books are written. The stanford nerds versus the Berkeley frats and a winner Take all challenge to find out the answer to the burning question how many people really run this race, stanford is taking a high tech approach to the problem.

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Well, we're approximating the runners as a flow of water, for example, a fluid flow and there's four basic variables involved here, density, velocity, area in time. You multiply those four factors together, you get a number of people and that's the bottom line in this race. Number

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of people judging the contest today are two experts from apple computers. Dave Cody and Bruce Mowry. The winner of the contest will receive a free macintosh so far. The judges are very impressed with stanford's approach with a very interesting formula. Wonderful to see if it works

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or not. Cal has taken a more human approach to the problem using the one tool stanford overlooked the finger. We got a binary counting system set up with all the guys here for the fraternity as the ones, digit tens, hundreds, etcetera. They passed that number back

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to the person here who is recording the data as it comes in. Alright, but here's the real question. The moment of truth, how many runners were there? Really? There's 101,873. Alright, now you tell me how many runners they're really worth your. You're not going to believe

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this 101873. Here we go. Alright gentlemen, we've had the opinions and the and the guesses and the estimations of the, of the two groups involved. You're the official judges who won very close, very close race. But I think stanford, If you're wondering where all those people

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might go when the race is over, they go to a party of course, for about 200,000 people. It's called foot stock. Mm hmm. The world's largest foot race. And moving block party comes to a sudden stop at the Polo fields of Golden Gate Park. It's called

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Foot Stock, estimated quarter of a million people end up here to kick back, relax and reunite with families. If you think this is crowded, you should see the parking lot. It's a warm down. It's free and they got free drinks and there's only 27 million people

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here. I'm broken. I pulled my groin muscle. You want to see volunteers, but there's a that's wide open on your right. There's lots of T shirts on your right and volunteers just waiting to give them to you. Get your foot stock is the place where runners

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who finished the race get to pick up their reward or trophy if you will. The infamous Beta breakers official T shirt. These babies aren't available in stores trying to decide between a small and medium Because I'm not sure how much it will shrink and I'm not

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sure how baggy. I wanted that one of the hazards of running this race. This is the ultimate in T shirts because you can buy them. But they don't say we survived. That proves that you finish the race to 89-95. Show prices to 59-95. Tiger balm. Free

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samples for sore muscles, muscular pains and aches. Free sample free sample first. We don't use. Mm hmm. Greta bites and Edye Stone are this year's Beta breakers winners. They became instant heroes to the people of foot stop. Who won the race. Who won? Michael Mike mike.

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I have no idea who won the race. Greta and I definitely won the race As foot stock and the beta breakers come to a close for 1986. Congratulations to the winners and the finishers and congratulations to all the families who found parking at the polo fields.

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I think a gentleman from England said it best. You have missed this race. May have missed a bunch of masochists having a fantastic time. And so there you have it. The 75th examiner. Beta breakers has been a great weekend full of events from costume contest, dance

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parties, live studio shows and of course the race itself and diana, thanks for working with us and I'd like to have you come back again next year. If you will wait to work with you, I'd swim across oceans, climb mountains and for the right pay. I'll

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be back next year. Just get on the plane. Okay, as we show you the names of the people behind the scenes who make our coverage possible. Let's relive some of this weekend's moments and be sure to join us next year when Channel five will bring you

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the 76th running of the examiner. Beta breakers, goodnight. Brand new movie. We're down in it. Bye. The 1986 examiner. Beta breakers highlight show has been brought to you in part by Kgo Newstalk Radio 81 plank road beer, lucky food stores and buy G. T.

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E. Sprint. All right, it's not love. I'm running from. It's the heartbreak. I know where you come. I know you're no good for me, but you become a part of me now everywhere. Five got nowhere to run to the face, nowhere into my heart, you creep.

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You know what? How can I fight? That should be. No, we're gonna run all over san Francisco. We're gonna have a thank you so much, congratulations, Whatever. No.