Golden Gate Relay

You’re invited to California’s longest party, the Golden Gate Relay! Gather your friends or enemies (teams of 12). Decorate your vans. Dress your best (costumes optional). Run (or walk). “It’s the most fun 24 feet can have in the best place on earth,” CBS 5.

FROM NAPA VALLEY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 12-member teams run 36 legs (3 legs per runner, 3-8 miles each) through 36 cities and across the Golden Gate Bridge at midnight in support of Organs R Us (ORU) and 125,000 Americans waiting for organ donors.

Teams of 12 travel through Napa Valley, Sonoma, Marin, Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge near midnight, San Francisco, Stanford and Silicon Valley to Santa Cruz.

The course is divided into 36 segments called “Legs” with 75 turns (36 left, 39 right). Legs vary in length (3-8 miles) and difficulty (“Easy” to “Very Hard”). Runners travel 186 miles on shoulders of roads, 4 miles on five bicycle paths (Legs 6, 17, 21, 26) and 1 mile through a quarry (Leg 35). Eight legs have ocean views (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 31, 36) and five legs border reservoirs (13, 22, 23, 24, 28).