LA Marathon Sold and Date Change (Read 1295 times)

Los Angeles City Council Approves Sale and Date Change of LA Marathon. You can read my blog post here. http://tinyurl.com/3hml2g Share your thoughts... Bob http://bobrunner.blogspot.com

It's official...the date changes in 2009. The completion of the sale takes place Monday 9/22/08, the website will change then.

I've ran LA a couple of times before boycotting that ridiculous course point to point course they went to a couple years back. Don't make me quote myself: starting the LA marathon in the valley is like starting the OC marathon in the 909... Even worse, the 2nd half of the course going through the industrial wastelands of east LA, climbing some random hills and then a trip through skid row on your way to the finish. After running NYC and Boston and seeing what happens when a city embraces a marathon, I've been of the opinion that LA doesn't deserve a marathon. Devine was a bunch of idiots of who severely overpaid for that race. I'm hoping the McCourt group will be able to fix it. As for the date, President's Day (the third Monday in Feb?) is an interesting choice. If the race start and end downtown they are going to have more trouble with the businesses that don't take the day off than they had with the churches on Sunday. Also, special memo to the church goers. God will forgive you if you come out and cheer on the marathoners one Sunday a year (he told me personally).

More importantly, will the billboards still be as awesome? I loved the Baywatch ones and if they'd sold "Run, [neighborhood], Run!" posters I would have bought one.

So far there is just the rumor that they're changing to President's day. No talk of new course or new start time. (((arc918)))

Jon 3:16!

not with this damn hamstring - I may have to head back up to CIM and see what I can do also - those assclowns at LA need a get a decent start corral system in place - I know a guy who "ran" a 7+ hour yet managed to start less than 2 minutes off the gun - he must have gotten passed by 13,000 people during the race...

Here is a link to the article in the LA Daily News...not a rumor. http://tinyurl.com/3p45r9

very interesting - I think they need a course change way more than they need a date change... found the LA Times story finally http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-marathon18-2008sep18,0,7997868.story

http://www.lamarathon.com/ check out the website... Monday, Feb 16 it is

Woohoo! I can run a triple!