November 13, 2008

• “He’s going the distance”? Not likely in May!

  I received e-mail news Monday afternoon from the L.A Marathon folks saying they will be moving the race date again from President’s Day (Feb. 16) to Memorial Day (May 25). The reason they give? They want to give us runners a “world-class runner experience”

  I’ve seen a lot of chatter on the running message boards I frequent, and not too many people are happy about it, considering that it rearranges training programs, interrupts vacation/travel plans, and hurts the potential contributions to the various marathon charities.

  I had been looking forward to it, but with all these changes going on, I am not sure if I will go through another 3 months worth of training just to run in hotter weather conditions. At least L.A Marathon LLC is offering refunds, so I am toying with the idea of doing this half-marathon in February. I have already done multiple 14+ mile runs, so this shouldn’t be too bad! Plus, I won’t have to take a sick day the following Monday to recover!
  
  

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