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		<title>Don&#8217;t Call Me A Trail Runner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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I still remember when I&#8217;d get bored the moment I would walk into an REI store, mostly because it was not that long ago.  Hiking was &#8220;eh&#8221; at best, and at worst it was all about imagining myself tumbling to my death down a hot, dry chaparral dirt mountain while my friends watched in horror. All the trees, bushes,  insects, birds looked the same to me. The idea I was &#8220;getting away from it all&#8221; and communing with nature felt quaint. Plus it was so slow, you know, because we were walking, and the attention deficit.
I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m writing this since I don&#8217;t feel all that qualified to write about trails, hiking, nor trail running for that matter, which is really what I&#8217;m getting to, but in the past few months it finally clicked and I&#8217;m starting to get why some people like being &#8220;away from it all.&#8221;
It sort of started when I asked a running store employee about some trails where I could get some miles in for my half marathon training. I figured it would be cut and dry. Start here, go there, end up here. I wasn&#8217;t really listening too hard, didn&#8217;t ask for too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Los Angeles Christmas To You Too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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I believe I got to see a couple of Los Angeles&#8217; most iconic places through the back-to-back races I ran this weekend.
Saturday I got to run through the Santa Monica and Venice beachfront town and boardwalk.  Though the usual California sunniness was drenched in rainy weather, you still got the sense of  the picturesque, Los Angeles beach-side lifestyle. Sunday was all about the Los Angeles movie industry, as I ran a 10K through movie sets old and new on the Universal Studios backlot. It&#8217;s not ALL that Los Angeles has to offer, though I would probably recommend this to people visiting here as a unique way to see those iconic things that Los Angeles is known for.
Santa Monica-Venice Christmas Run: So the skies had opened up prior to the weekend, and by Saturday morning, there was some good steady rain, with several sudden downpours. Not great for the freeways here, as my early-morning commute to the beach was marred by two accident sites. Be careful when driving in the rain!! When I finally got to the race, some announcer was putting the racers through yoga moves. There was a lot of talk about the rain, but people were in good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two More Christmas Runs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m not usually one for the silly ritualistic impulses that grab many people during the holidays, maybe because I don&#8217;t need holidays to have silly ritualistic impulses, but I do have a thing for holiday runs.
I just came off of a two-race Thanksgiving holiday padded with some hiking (to scope out more running trails &#8212; that&#8217;s really all hiking is to runners, a reconnaissance trip), and now I&#8217;m gearing up for a two-race, potentially three-race, Christmas holiday.
I signed up for two that intrigued me more than the plethora of other events available in Los Angeles, and the two happened to be on the same weekend, back to back. Hold on to your reindeers people!
The Saturday race is the &#8220;flat and fast&#8221; Santa Monica-Venice Christmas Run, which I honestly chose because I couldn&#8217;t stop staring at the design on the postcard flyer. This is a pure &#8220;schwag potential&#8221; run for me, with the Venice Boardwalk locale as icing on the cake. Their t-shirt, according to their site is a &#8220;custom made, high quality, long sleeve, environmentally sensitive shirt,&#8221; which I&#8217;m sure will give me enough karma points to balance out my superficial reasons for running this race. It is also touted [...]]]></description>
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