The Manhattan Beach Strand

This weekend I missed my group long run since we were visiting LA for the USC/Oregon college football game. (Sadly the Ducks lost but,) We did get to squeeze in a run each morning from Clay's buddy's place in Manhattan Beach. He lives just on the other side of Highland and 36th, almost at the ocean. (It looks something like this, but not exactly since I stole this pic.)

We started off down the hill towards the water and came to what locals know as "The Strand"... a stretch of dual sidewalks down the coast in each direction -- towards Marina Del Rey and Hermosa.

Initially we made the mistake of running on the "bike's only" path (pictured on the right) but soon figured it out and were on our way towards Hermosa Beach. We ran until the building pictured in the distance with the blue window awnings and turned around.

Went we reached the Manhattan Beach pier we ran to the end and back.
All in all a 4 mile run. Not bad for a Saturday morning while on 'vay-kay'.