about it is we have not only kept the new history of this, but we understand that bob's grandson, bob burnett from houston, texas, in celebration of his grandfather's run 100 years ago, will also be running in this year's beta breakers race for the first time. wherever you are, we will see you at 7:00 on sunday, and hopefully, you have a fantastic race because it will be one that i think will be a very celebrating race with our new sponsors and all of the volunteers we have. today, i want to present to you a host of people that will be speaking about not only this race but the excitement we have in hosting this wonderful base to continue making it part of the tradition of san francisco -- the fun part of san francisco. what i also want to let you know is that while we have some new rules to share, we are also instilling a number of exciting things that we want to make sure the people who registered and the 100,000 spectators, the 55,000 registrants already experienced just a wonderful event in the city. at the start at 7:00 in the morning. that is what i call golfers time. but it will start a

. >> reporter: bob burnett was 10 years old when his grandfather died in 1960. it was only while rummaging through his grandmother's scrapbook that he discovered his grandfather's connection to that very first race. >> asked her what were all these pictures. he had all these medals and trophies. said well, that's because your grandfather was a well known runner in san francisco. >> reporter: he wasn't that well known in 1912. the first running of the race. but 43 minutes after leaving the starting line, everyone knew his name. >> he won this thing and nobody knew who he was except for the extreme locals. wearing a baseball cap backwards and ran his way up there and finished in 43 minutes and 10 seconds. >> reporter: the dog-eared pages of that scrapbookring to life the early days of the race. there's vlught sprinting to victory in 1912 and again a year later. >> he won in 1913. he beat the same gentleman, oliver millard. they are really great friends. there's a picture of them shaking hands. >> reporter: he recalls his granfather as he ultimate sportsman. he sti