Benefits
Please feel free to join us at any of our runs with our compliments. If you decide you like the club and would like to run with us on a regular basis, we hope you'll become a member. Our membership year runs from July 1 to June 30. All members receive an LARC technical shirt. Your shirt can be picked up at our Wednesday or Saturday meetups. We also have LARC tanks, socks, hats, and last season's shirts for sale at discounted prices for members.
Our regular activities include:
Mondays: We meet at 6:45 pm at Playa Vista Elementary School (13150 Bluff Creek Drive) for running or walking around the Playa Vista neighborhood. The run or walk is usually between 4 and 6 miles. There is free parking in the school parking lot and on Bluff Creek Drive.
Wednesdays: We have a coached track workout at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica starting at 6:30 pm. The workout includes a group warm up, coached interval workouts for various paces/levels, and guided cool-down and stretching. We sometimes need to institute an advance sign up system due to the number of participants expected and the city's limits on number of athletes permitted on the track. Please follow us on social media for updates on whether advance sign-up is required. Lincoln Middle School is located at 1501 California Ave. in Santa Monica. The entrance to the track is from 16th Street, near the corner of Washington Ave. There is a small parking lot off 16th Street, or plenty of free street parking on the surrounding streets.
Saturdays: We meet at the Totem Pole in Santa Monica (corner of Ocean Ave. & San Vicente Blvd.) at 7:00 am for a group run. There are various informal pace groups of runners, run/walkers, and walkers) that each determine the route and mileage they plan to run each week. If you're unsure of which group to go with, arrive a few minutes early so that we can help match you up with a group.
Destination Sundays: We hold periodic Sunday meetups for running, walking, or hiking in different locations around the LA area. Dates, times, and meetup locations will be announced on social media and in our email newsletter. Also, look for announcements of our LA Marathon Course Preview Runs, which will take place in December and January.
