LAist: LA Marathon Date Change Not Settling Well with Some Runners

Johnny

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:06:03 -0800

I meant to say, "Hollywood Bowl during a concert is more inconvenient than the marathon."

Johnny

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:30:43 -0800

The marathon is ONCE a YEAR and only for a few hours! There are road constructions that are more inconvenient then the marathon. Hollywood Bowl during a concert is more convenient than the marathon. Everyone living, commuting around the route is inconvenienced. Hell, (no pun intended) I lived in Hollywood for a few years and just made sure on that Sunday I stayed close to home or was out of the area bright and early. Hey churches how about starting an hour or two later than usual so everyone can compensate for the traffic detours.

raskolnikov

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:14:35 -0800

It is a simple fact that if latinos and blacks do not go to church on sunday the world will end. I just have to laugh at the memorial day idea. The best and most delicious part of this is that for some reason, no other major city has their marathon on memorial day - i wonder why. Do you think it may have something to do with the sanctity of the holidays and turning los angeles streets into a burning man type mania of public urination and defecation (you try and wait for a port a potty in boyle heights while trying to make a nine minute pace when you can just as easily decorate a cinder block fence guardian some valuable chickens) is probably inappropriate. whatever, this is LA's last marathon - the ration of shiatsu that mccourt, the dodgers, the council and these religious leaders will have to take when there are half a dozen cadavers and 500 people with extreme heat stroke will finish off the la marathon for good. we do not deserve it - we are a horrid city with a mayor who has his dick anywhere but his pants and is getting reelected without a contest.

Markland

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:53:34 -0800

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Hindinwood

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:50:33 -0800

"Have it on a Saturday." What about Jews? The point is, there is always somewhere people need to be in this city, whether it's Church or something else that's important to them. It's arrogant for "religious leaders" to completely screw up something that people have been training for for MONTHS to accomodate their congregations, instead of just passing out maps of the route at the service prior to the marathon. I mean, duh, it's not that hard. I'm just sick and tired of organized religion throwing their weight around and acting like they have some devine right (ahaha) to everything that takes priorty over others.

polaroidgirl

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:43:00 -0800

You know, my morning commute to work would be so much easier if religious people didn't have driver's licenses. Who can I complain to? This is the most ridiculous thing I've read all week. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

panasonicyouth

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:29:01 -0800

The end of May? Are they kidding? I really wanted to run this year, but now I can't because I'm doing the ALC at the end of May. Thanks a lot, you stupid fucking churches.

raul

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:14:26 -0800

Move it back to Sunday. While they're at it, why not reconfigure the course so that it can start near the ocean, run a few miles in Santa Monica and take the entire 16 mile stretch of Wilshire to finish in downtown? You close one major street, but at least people aren't trapped. Start the race earlier too. Say, 6:30AM. By 11 am they can start reopening the streets.

soledadenmasa

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:02:02 -0800

Have it on a Saturday.

raskolnikov

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:33:14 -0800

I just got my $$$ back and am looking forward to running the Pasadena marathon instead. The organizers there actually have a brain and cancelled their marathon because of the extreme health risks. It is now in March, and although the route sucks - it goes on washington in Pasadena, the bottle recycling and asian incall rub and tug capitol, it is now in march. As for L.A. in May - i want the over under on deaths - i will give action as follows - if the forecast at 6 a.m. that day on weather.com is for 85 or more, i will take 5 deaths or over - remember, the last deaths in L.A. were 2006, when it got quite hot after starting cold. It has never started hot in l.a. I imagine this will be the last year for the l.a. marahon - there probably will be mass heat stroke and mccourt will do some tie in with the dodgers so that the dodgers can be drageed down in this fiasco.

GarySe7en

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:19:13 -0800

This isn't Shelbyville Tennessee, why is Los Angeles moving one of the city's biggest events because some Churches said so?

wiyum

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:05:29 -0800

Churches and harvests are the reason we vote on a Tuesday in November. I'm not sure why I'm making this point.

paul

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:47:54 -0800

Wow, is LA slowly turning into NYC, where people complain about everything as if it were the end of the world? Change happens people, roll with it.

Hindinwood

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:42:21 -0800

Getting around the marathon is annoying as hell, but it would never occur to me to complain to City Council that it shouldn't be held on a Sunday. "Religious leaders" really need to learn how to function in a city in which there are many other lifestyles and priorities beyond their own. We all have shit to do on Sunday (marathon has made me late to really important things on two occasions) but as adults it's our job to figure it out and stop bitching.