L.A. LEGGERS

Our own coach & Vice President Barry Morrill was featured on USC Annenberg Media the other night speaking about the updates to CDC guidance on mask wearing. Head to 2:55 to see it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1uLu0-r2tI

We're excited to see this updated guidance from the CDC for fully vaccinated individuals (2 weeks post-second shot). Please note, we continue to follow state and county guidelines as a club. https://www.washingtonpost.com//cdc-guidance-masks-outdo/

Need to refresh your LEGGERS swag? Check out our new buffs, custom @rungoodr sunglasses, visors and more! Head over to our new online store, now live on our website at https://laleggers.org Items are shipped the first and third Mondays of the month.

To Jeff Galloway the originator of run/walk/run and who consulted during our founding goes our prayers for a speedy and complete recovery Jeff's post: To my Galloway Community, ... After a career of being the cheerleader and coach for those who have come back from injuries and illness, I will now be the athlete on the recovery trail. Last Monday I was just finishing up a short Elliptigo and rowing session when I got up and suddenly experienced a dizziness that I hadn’t had before. After trying to walk around the house to settle myself, the symptoms got worse - nausea and extreme fatigue. My health and the Piedmont team allowed me to survive what we now know was a heart attack, but even those advantages won’t make it easy to get back to full strength. My family and I thank you for your support during this recovery time. I will be taking some downtime to recuperate, but I can’t wait to be back seeing everyone at events, retreats, and virtually. I hope you can get out today and run or walk, hug or call a loved one, and if you are feeling bad GO SEE SOMEONE about it. Doctors and science are pretty amazing!

Boston Marathon 2021 will be held on Oct. 11. The registration is open April 20~23. https://bostonathleticassociation.force.com/s/ The qualifying window is from September 15, 2018 to now.

Birthday wishes go out to 2 major members of our LEGGERS family: Our Water Station Coordinator and the person who sends us off on our training when we are all together: Stuart Garrison! The Route Creator Supreme who knows every which way to do any mileage from 1450: Larry Hilton!... Happy Birthday Stuart and Larry!

from the McCourt Foundation... Given the current state of the pandemic in the Los Angeles area and the pace of vaccine roll-out, the Rose Bowl Half Marathon & 5K, the LA Big 5K, and the Los Angeles Marathon presented by ASICS will be rescheduled to the fall of 2021. Please join us Thursday night for a special club round table to discuss how this affects us going forward.... Zoom details to follow

Throwing it back to @runsurfcityusa in 2013. Who’s excited for a September version this year? See you on PCH!

As many of you may have seen, the McCourt Foundation has changed the dates for both the Rose Bowl (formerly Pasadena) Half Marathon and the L.A. Marathon. The LA LEGGERS has always been a program geared toward helping each and every member develop a healthy lifestyle. We used training in endurance athletics (walking, running or a combo of both) as our source of activity and then set an intermediate goal of completing a half marathon or marathon. Though the intermediate goal h...as a new target date, the goal remains the same as does our ultimate objective of facilitating a healthy lifestyle for all. The club will take the next few days to review and adjust our training schedule to reflect the new dates of both races. With the benefit of added time, we encourage all to include balance, strength, flexibility training sessions into your midweek trainings. However, the decisions will not be made in a vacuum of the Coaches and training committee. We invite your input at [email protected]. The LA LEGGERS prides itself on involvement and growth based on a community of members not on the decisions of few, and we are asking for your input.. Our Thursday December 2 evening Zoom roundtable will be discussing the changes, and we hope you will attend or listen to the replay. We are also reaching out to our sister clubs (Pasadena Pacers, USA Marathon Training, and others) to share ideas. Lastly, a thank you to the McCourt Foundation and their Medical Advisory staff for being serious regarding the health and safety of all (runners, volunteers, staff and spectators), and making the necessary hard decisions

Thank you Mentor Coordinator Liz Moseley for sharing! Did you watch the Presidential Inauguration today? Did you know that 13.5 member Joan Wicks was on the platform accompanying her daughter Amanda Gorman, who read her original poem to the nation and world? She was flawless in her delivery. Joan reports that they have had a whirlwind of calls and requests for interviews. Amanda is scheduled to appear on GMA . We're very proud and happy for Joan! Can't wait to get the nitty gritty details when she returns.

According to information received from his wife, Carol, Charles Sayles, who was part way thru his goal of attempting to become the first over 70 finisher of 3 circuits of the 50 states and over 250 marathons finished), died peacefully in his sleep today after succumbing to complications from a fall last year. His first marathon was at age 63. He was 82. The LEGGERS family has lost a truly good man, but we know that when the races return Charles' spirit will be with us at every start line

We’re missing that on the field finish line too. #TBT to the Rose Bowl Half & 5K. Thank you to Christy for this awesome pic.

Shout out to our LEGGERS members who logged 1000 (or more) miles in 2020! Have you set any annual goals? Congrats to Chris, Aisha, Jason, Barry, Caylin, Alan, Briana and Stephen! @1000milesrunclub

Congrats to Dr. Steve Smith, founder of the Pasadena Pacers, and LA LEGGERS alumni on his retirement!

#FBF to the 2019 edition of @runcim262 and LEGGERS crushing the 26.2 through our state capitol. We can’t wait to get back to the on course experience when races return.

#shoutoutsaturday to our friends at @runforaclaus for their donation of over $13K to Salvation Army. In this crazy year, great work by Race Director @garykutscher and his team to both support the local community and runners alike. #doinggood #virtualrun #runtheoc

#TBT LEGGER member Robin running the 2019 Santa Monica-Venice @christmas_run Are you making your own holiday magic on your runs this month?