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Los Angeles Marathon 2009
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The Los Angeles Marathon is an annual event that has been held since 1986. Typically run on the first Sunday in March, the race has been pushed back to Memorial Day. In 2009, it was on May 25, Monday.
More than 17,000 started the race. The course followed a loop that began at 6th and Figueroa streets and ended at 5th and Flower streets. A splendid Finish Line Festival welcomed the runners who made it.
A shadow marathon was run by servicemen and women in Iraq. At noon Pacific Daylight Time on race day, about 400 troops ran the Camp Taji Memorial Day marathon. They ran at night because daytime temperatures in Iraq can reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Climb California LA 2009
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Climb California is a 1,377-stair timed climb to the rooftop of the AON Center in downtown Los Angeles for the benefit of the American Lung Association of California. This year it will be on April 18, Saturday.
Wondering if you can do it? If you can walk three miles, you can climb 1,377 stairs in 30 minutes.
Climb time record: 8 minutes and 17 seconds
2009 World Figure Skating Championships
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International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships
March 22, 2009 (Sunday) to March 29, 2009 (Sunday)
Staples Center in Los Angeles, ticketmaster.com
The World Figure Skating Championships is the world's most prestigious and important annual skating competition. (The Winter Olympics not an annual event.) The best figure skaters are vying for four World titles: ladies, men's, pairs and ice dancing.
Fifteen top U.S. skaters are among them, including the reigning ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final champion Jeremy Abbott as well as three-time World ice dancing medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.
If you can't catch the events live, you can watch the television broadcasts on NBC and Oxygen.