My 2010 Los Angeles Marathon Pictures @lamarathon #lamarathon
Sunday, March 21, 2010
I wanted to take lots of photos with my iPhone as I ran the LA Marathon. That way I'd have something to remember it by. But between sweat, grim and being sore I didn't take as many pictures as I had planned. But here they are...
The day started very early. Very very early. I was leaving my building around 4am as those crazy kid neighbors were just getting home. I made my way and finally got to LA Dodge Stadium. As you can see it was still dark outside. Why oh why does one get up at 3am to run?
I was shocked that they allowed us down the the field but we were. I didn't want to walk around too much as I wanted to save my legs.
The JUMBO TRON! Or whatever they call it. That former Patriot Football coach was blabbering on about something. Don't know why they'd have a former New England Patriot Coach speak to people in Los Angeles. (I Kid)
People were stretching, taking photos and just having a good ol' time for it being so early on a Sunday morning.
More pictures of Dodger Stadium.
Wait why didn't I think of wearing a pink hat like that? I saw this couple later on around mile 22-ish. Well in Brentwood.
A picture for all you baseball fans. Which if you read my blog I hardly doubt you are but in case you like the Dodgers. Oh and I got to use the non-box suite restrooms for the first time. I figured that it would have a trough but it didn't. Shocking. But no desert cart like you get in the box suites. The cocktail served in a chocolate cup is divine! Mmmmm....
The race is about to start. I wore extra clothes that I didn't care about to toss aside as the race started. Don't worry the clothes are collected and donated to a charity. I was nice and took them off before I entered the race area. Others just tossed the clothes as they started to run hitting other runners. Tisk Tisk!
Now we are off. Slowly, walking...
And we are running like the wind. We have ran a loop around the stadium and we are still in a clusterfuck. Some of the walkers and speedwalkers wanted to be up front so we are all dodging them. I mean I'm not a fast runner and I do try to go to the right marked mile pace sign so I find it baffling with others don't. It's rude.
Downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown, no finer place for sure,
Downtown, everything's waiting for you
(Downtown)
Oh so here we are running in....DOWNTOWN LAYou and me, be running up that hill
You and me won't be unhappy.Well maybe not you but I'm unhappy running up hills. At this point I was still running up the hill on Hill Street in downtown. Many people opted to come to a grinding halt and walk up it. Grrrrr....
Still feeling pretty good. Think this was Siverlake. I heard someone yelling my name but figured it wasn't really my name cuz' who do I know in Silverlake, please. This was my first time East of LaBrea in ages.
Disney's Stitch was running. Sadly it took me all the way to Hollywood to catch up to someone wearing a furry costume that I can only assume was hotter then hell! But I was still feeling good. At the mile markers I was checking my pace and it wasn't what I wanted but was staying consistent. I figured it would be like swimming the 1500 I'd just even split the whole race. HA!
Once in Hollywood I was getting sweaty and grimy and my iPhone touchscreen really didn't like that. Taking pictures and using Twitter was becoming a pain. And then in West Hollywood I spent the time looking for people I know. Then came Beverly Hills. The pain started to settle in. Here is Burton Way.
Look Ma, I'm running! Must have been a slip of the hand. But you can see my new Asics Gel-Evolution 5 that I bought on sale. And you can see the little pouch that holds my Nike+ sensor. Which was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off once again. I need to go more high tech if I'm going to keep up with this running thing.
Another lame ass pix. I was getting too tired and sore to care anymore. I had to concentrate on running and not pictures. And plus this is my hood. I run here all the time I can take pictures with less of the rift raft around. I do regret not taking pictures of that hot male go-go dancer in WeHo or the WeHo Cheer group! Next year or then again Pride is coming up!
The last picture I took was at Mile 20. The race went downhill after this. Well the course went downhill and I went tumbling down. I was falling apart and the last 6.2 miles were hell. Somewhere around mile 18 or 19 the fine folks from Sports Chalet sprayed some sorta magical pixie dust on us the made the pain go away. I swear it was better then crystal meth. It got me going for 1 hour and then the next 6 hours I lost track of time.
Well those are my pictures...oh wait but there's more...
I got this neato medal and all the Chocolate Elf Graham Crackers I could manage to carry as I limped to the side at the end!
This makes me wish I'd gone ahead and done L.A. What a great course!
Posted by: Jamie | Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 06:42 PM
Congrats on making the journey! I hope to participate in my first marathon sometime in the fall, but don't think it's going to be an event quite the size of the L.A. Marathon.
Hope you're not too sore in the morning.
Posted by: Michael Hatamoto | Monday, March 22, 2010 at 01:58 AM
Thanks very much for the post! Awesome pictures! Congratulations!
Posted by: michael lee | Monday, March 22, 2010 at 01:21 AM