Another Great Day!

LA Marathon Group
Some of the Beach Runners Before the Start of the LA Marathon

Anytime you complete a marathon or half marathon it is a great day and yesterday’s LA Marathon provided great support and weather. I love running through this city, seeing all it has to offer.

We started in the San Fernando Valley, ran over the hill into Hollywood, ran through the Mid-Wilshire area to the USC campus, through South LA, the corner of East LA and then through the heart of downtown.

It was packed, over 20,000 runners. It was a cultural menagerie of runners. The age ranges on the course were extreme due to Students Run LA, providing pre-teens and teens to one guy were a shirt saying he was 86. It reminds me how long 26.2 miles is, and doing it at either one of those ranges is heroic.

There were many first timers I met out on the course yesterday. It always makes me smile when I see the runners’ family members and friends cheering us on. I want to thank all the supporters. I realized how many people would go out and do something nice for people they even don’t know. It is very encouraging when people are lining the streets yelling your name. That’s why we put out names on our bibs or on our shirts.

Some highlights of my day were: playing with the band Core at mile 21, Rolando leading Beach Runners  cadence songs before we started, running with Sandy for her 50th birthday, running with the oldest Legacy runner, working my way through the crowds and running with many different Beach Runners and crossing the finishing line with Peter.
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Jammin’ With Core on the Run at Mile 21

What a great day!

Raced Focused, Steve Mackel – Head Coach Beach Runners Marathon/Half Marathon Training Program

March 3, 2008 | Filed Under Steve's Posts 

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2 Responses to “Another Great Day!”

  1. John Graham on March 3rd, 2008

    Good Job Guys! Sorry I couldn’t link up but I was there. See ya all again soon!

  2. Peter Rivera on March 4th, 2008

    Steve, thanks for the piggy-back ride the last few miles. You and Gary have built a great program. I truly doubt whether I could have done it without the Beaches.