Los Angeles Marathon date changed to Memorial Day, May 25, 2009; Heat Stroke and Overtraining now an issue
By admin | November 11, 2008
The new owners of the Los Angeles Marathon have changed the date again. They requested and got approval from the Los Angeles City Council to change the date from March 1, 2009 to Presidents Day Monday February 16, 2009.
Now the date has been changed again. This time to Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2009. The owners of the L.A. Marathon just sent out thousands of e-mails on Monday November 10, 2008 to past participants to notify them of the change.
This will cause the possibility and likelihood of overtraining which in turn means mild to severe running injuries for many.
When the new owners changed the date to February 14, 2009, they justified it by reportedly saying that the Editor of Runnersworld believes that the 6 month training program was two weeks longer than necessary and it was likely that runners would be overtraining. Assuming this to be true, that means the runners are now overtraining by 99 days. The typical training program by the LA Roadrunners, LA Leggers, Student Run LA and others generally involve a 6 month training program. This in effect would lengthen the training program to 9 months. Yes, lets do the math. March 1, to May 25 is 85 days longer. What a disaster. Nine months to prepare for a marathon?
A lot of runners will be injured and hurt from overtraining and may never make it to race day.
Instead of running in a cooler temperature, it will be much hotter as May 25, 2009 is near the start of summer. Higher chance of runners getting heat stroke for that date. Heat is always an issue in any race.
I say lets keep the original date of Sunday March 1, 2009. Its not too late.
If the new owners refuse to keep the original date, I would suggest starting the race earlier in the morning at 6:00 a.m.
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LA Marathon changes 2009 race date to February 16, 2009
By admin | September 22, 2008
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday on item number #46 by a majority vote to change the 2009 LA Marathon race date from Sunday March 1, 2009 to Monday, February 16, 2009.
This is how the LA City Council voted on Friday September 19, 2008:
RICHARD ALARCON 7 YES
TONY CARDENAS 6 YES
ERIC GARCETTI 13 YES
WENDY GREUEL 2 YES
JANICE HAHN 15 NO
JOSE HUIZAR 14 YES
TOM LABONGE 4 NO
BERNARD C PARKS 8 YES
JAN PERRY 9 YES
ED REYES 1 YES
BILL ROSENDAHL 11 YES
GREIG SMITH 12 YES
JACK WEISS 5 YES
HERB WESSON 10 YES
DENNIS ZINE 3 YES
Starting in 2009, and every year there after, the race will commence on a Monday on Presidents Day.
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LA Marathon to change race date three weeks earlier for 2009
By admin | September 22, 2008
Word has it that the Los Angeles City Council has approved the sale of the Los Angeles Marathon to the McCourt Group and to change the race date three weeks earlier to Presidents Day which is on a Monday. According to a local school teacher who attended a Student Run L.A. event this past Sunday, its official.
Also, it was reported by Bob, Confessions of a overweight, middle aged runner about a similar report so indeed we are not imagining this. Bob, the runner, (no relation to this blog), states that the completion of the sale takes place Monday September 22, 2008.
If true, this would impact many race organizations that train runners for the LA Marathon including the famous LA Road Runners, LA Leggers, Student Run L.A. and others. Cutting out three weeks of a 6 month training program is the equivalent of cutting out about 15 work out runs. The Politicians should not approve changing the date for the 2009 L.A. Marathon.
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Google and Verizon In Search Deal
By admin | August 24, 2008
Verizon and Google are trying to hammer out a deal that would make Google the default search provider for mobile phones. According to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon would place a Google search bar on the home screen of its phones. Google would get a share of the revenue by offering relevant ads for Verizon customers.
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Did Google give you the knock out punch?
By admin | July 27, 2008
Google’s July 25, 2008 Toolbar update has landed some bloggers on the mat. Marc Galeazzi who paid $10,000.00 several months ago for a PR 4 blog, “Onemansgoal,” got the knock out punch from Google. His PR dropped to 0, ouch! His other website, “Relaxationtips.org” a PR 4 blog that he also purchased also got dropped to a 0. Galeazzi is not alone. Google has in the past penalized buyers who have purchased expired domains that were PR 5’s and 6’s for example, and reset them to 0. Is Google now resetting domains that simply transfer ownership? One other note, Matt Cutts announced a few days ago that, “I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.”
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