I travel a lot, and for the first time I am going to take an extra day to watch a major cyclcing tour. I will be in LA to watch the Tour of California TT on May 22nd.
I am arriving LAX on Friday the 21st, spend the night and on Sat the 22nd I am planning to do a long run in the morning, watch the TT in the afternoon and catch a redeye back home.
Where is agood place to do a long run? Any good parks close to LAX or close to the TT (where HWY 10 and HWY110 crossover)to run 12 miles?
Thanks
Antonio
Griffith park probably your best bet. will be hilly tho. maybe someone that runs there regularly will chime in with a route.
closer to LAX, just make your way to the beach path at the west end of imperial hwy and head south running thru manhattan and hermosa beach.
Griffith Park. Follow the riding trail along the I-5 side of the park and it’s reasonably flat. It’s only if you go into the park that it gets hilly - REALLY hilly.
Near LAX, you can drive down Sepulveda and then hang a right down Grand Ave all the way down to the beach.
That was one of the things I detested about LA.
The city is so completely given over to cars that many streets, even residential streets, don’t even have a footpath/sidewalk. Thousands of houses don’t even have the option of taking a walk from home - you’d step out your gate (well, driveway - no use for a gate) straight into the path of speeding traffic.
When I commented to numerous Angelenos that I found it bizarre to not be able to go for a run from home, they could all tell me of their favourite place to go for a run. Depending on traffic, it would be a 15 minute to 6 hour drive away. Sit in your stinking big truck for long enough, and you can eventually get to somewhere to take a jog, then get back into your stinking big truck for however long it takes to drive back home again. Get some ‘food’ at the drive-through on the way.
Of course, there are streets where you could jog, but wouldn’t, because you’ll get mugged or raped or beaten up for having the wrong skin colour. All my LA friends took greater pains to make sure I knew where not to go than to suggest where I should.
It’s an interesting place to visit, but I’m astonished that anyone would choose to live there.
then Griffith Park will be!
Thanks for the feedback.
well, that’s not an over-generalization, is it? LA’s a biiiiiig place. I can run out my door on a nice road and be in nature trails within a mile. Or run down to the beach, get a swim in, run back.
Are there places in LA (and every other major US city) that I wouldn’t choose to live in? sure, but that’s not unique to here.