Riverside Drive
Sunday. Still tired from yesterday’s dehydrating midday heat wave hill run through Griffith Park, today was a somewhat plodding 12.5 miler out my door, down the hill, Allesandro to Riverside to Fletcher, LA River bike path to the end and then some, back through Griffith Park and Riverside, with an official end at the bottom [...]
6 Miles Downtown
My urban loop – the first 6 miles of the LA Marathon route, basically: Dodger Stadium to Sunset Blvd down to Main, Main to 1st, 1st to Grand, Grand to Temple, right on Bellevue and then down to Echo Park, around and back to Sunset. If it were the marathon, I’d hang a left and [...]
Morning Buddha
Wednesday, May 5, 8am. Mile 1.72 of an 8 mile run through Griffith Park. These days I’m paying attention to form – trying to find that spot where my cadence is what I want it to be, my pace is what I want it to be, my feet are hitting the ground in line with [...]
Stormy Wednesday, LA River
Wednesday morning 8am, April 28. In between storms, along the LA River. 6.56 miles. The storm clouds, the concrete and the grey gave everything a very cold, urban look. There’s a certain alone-ness to these morning runs. The traffic is streaming by on the 5 freeway – it’s rush hour & it’s packed. There are [...]
Birthday Morning
The last time I actually celebrated a birthday was when I turned 36, back in 1996, 14 years ago. I was drunk, as always. My buddies took me to Jumbo’s Clown Room, the skankiest of all Hollywood strip clubs, where Courtney Love got her start in show biz long before she hooked up with Curt [...]
