{"id":15001,"date":"2014-01-08T02:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2014-01-08T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:13:45","slug":"unique-marathons-worth-the-trek-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/unique-marathons-worth-the-trek-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Marathons Worth the Trek in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bigsurun.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People like to run at California marathons. In addition to the challenge of making it through a course which may include mountain elevations, California&#8217;s climate &amp; scenery really are a plus, compared to places such as Boston. Among the favorites for visitors to the state is the classic L.A. Marathon known for its city setting and fantastic weather. However, there are just some amazing views when your run over the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/big-sur-marathon.html\"> famous bridges of Big Sur Coast <\/a>and Golden Gate or tackle the spectacular scenery from vistas above in Catalina Island, Berkeley&#8217;s Grizzly Trail and the amazing Muir Woods. For deserts, it doesn&#8217;t get any dryer than distance races at Calico Ghost Town and Death Valley&#8217;s Borax.\u00a0 Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/marathons.html\">over 30 marathons from now to May<\/a>, and several races to get you started below:<\/p>\n<p>Catalina 50 Mile Run Jan. 11, 2014 runcatalina.com<br \/>\nCrystal Springs Trail Run in Woodside Jan. 11, 2014 coastaltrailruns.com<br \/>\nHonkers Marathon Anaheim Jan. 12, 2014 honkersmarathon.com<br \/>\nBeach Blast Marathon Long Beach, CA Jan 18, 2014 active.com<br \/>\nPacifica Foothills Trail Run Jan 18, 2014 insidetrail.com<br \/>\nSan Diego 50 and Trail Marathon Escondido Jan 18, 2014 sandiegotrail50.com<br \/>\nTri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon Carlsbad Jan. 19, 2014 carlsbadmarathon.com<br \/>\nRedding Marathon Jan. 19, 2014 reddingmarathon.org<br \/>\nThe Odyssey Marathon January 25, 2014 rocketracingproductions.com<br \/>\nCalico Trail Run Ghost Town Yermo January 26, 2014 calicotrailrun.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like to run at California marathons. In addition to the challenge of making it through a course which may include mountain elevations, California&#8217;s climate &amp; scenery really are a plus, compared to places such as Boston. Among the favorites for visitors to the state is the classic L.A. Marathon known for its city setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}