This review is based on the old course. The new Stadium to Sea course sounds a lot better, but the old course was so boring, I resorted to counting McDonald's and Yoshinoya restaurants to keep my mind occupied (yeah, yeah, maybe if I was faster in 2009, I wouldn't have been bored). Starting line was a bit of a mess, t-shirt sizes were laughably huge, and the course went through all the most boring parts of LA, except Chinatown. The morning marine layer offered a nice buffer from the sun, so that was a positive.