A couple of confessions: I do routinely use "Berserkeley", because it is, and has been since the 60s when I first heard the nickname; I do avoid going to SF as much as possible ... because traffic, parking, pedestrians, parking, bum-crap, and parking have been insane there for decades.
Re the latter, depending on traffic, I'm an hour or a little more south of SF, and there are plenty of running events there I would not mind doing, but unless someone else drives or there's a shuttle, I'm not doing any. And if I want Chinese food at the kind of place where the servers' first language is Mandarin, there're plenty of places in the South Bay to which I could go.