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 6:30 pm at Santa Monica High School (SAMOHI) in Santa Monica. 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 regarding times and whether advance sign-up is required. The SAMOHI track is located at Pico Blvd. and 4th Street in Santa Monica. There is free parking in the school parking lot (enter from Olympic, between 4th and 7th Streets) and to the south of Pico, in the residential neighborhood off 4th St.
Saturdays: From late March through mid September, we meet at 7:00 am at the Totem Pole in Santa Monica, at the corner of Ocean Ave. and San Vicente Blvd. There is free parking in the surrounding neighborhood on Georgina Ave. and Marguerita Ave. Our Saturday meetups have informal groups of runners and walkers training at various paces, distances, and routes. If you need help connecting with a group at your pace, please arrive a little early and speak to an LARC coach or board member, and we will help connect you 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.
