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Redondo Beach Super Bowl 10K
Race
Exercise and Socialize
– Feb. 5, 2012
The perfect run is capped by the perfect finish – a beer garden!
One of the largest 10Ks on the West Coast
is probably it's craziest.
For years, it's been about an expression
of attitude, a celebration before the big celebration, a cause for costumes
at times other than Halloween or Surfest.
The Redondo Beach Super Bowl 10K is the first post-New Year event on
the South Bay's social calendar. It is a Los Angeles
tradition that has been around almost as long as the "Big Game."
REGISTRATION You can do it on-line at the Official
Website/Signup. but save the fee and go to any Village Runner store ($35).
The 2012 race start came with sunny skies and 75-degree weather.
The scene in the 2012 Michelob Ultra beer garden.
The Michelob Ultra beer garden has great-looking and fun girls!
Sign of the times: Clippers and not Lakers in L.A.
The great weather has everyone cheering in the beer garden.
For more than 30 years, it has filled the streets of this seaside beach community,
attracting around 10,000 participants.
The 2011 event sttarted foggy but soon became warm, sunny and fun. Due to construction, the run did not include the scenic Esplanade, but it did swing swing back down by the Redondo Pier and that meant "the hill" was still part of the race.
The 2011 Redondo Beach Super Bowl 10K beer garden.
And the ABC imposed a one-beer limit in the beer garden, though Michelob Ultra officials say they will work on increasing that back to two, or perhaps even three, in the future.
Some can not wait for the beer garden and start at the start of the 10K.
A beach, palm trees and grass skirts make this a unique 10K.
In 2011, the big news as Michelob Ultra is now the Official Beer in the beer garden. Lance Armstrong, come party with us in the South Bay!
Who dat in the beer garden in 2010!?
Many of the participants are just getting geared up for the Super Bowl, which starts several hours later. Heck, the beer garden may well be the biggest Super Bowl Party they will attend all day.
Before and at the start of the Super Bowl 10K in Redondo Beach, CA.
The Music Man and his crazy crew provides great entertainment.
This is fitting for a community that thrives
on what PubClub.com likes to describe as "exercise and socialize."
Check
out any day on The Strand, a beachside walkway, and it's packed with
sweat-soaking, sun-seeking runners, rollerbladers and bikers.
Go later
to beachside bars like the Shellback Tavern, OB's (especially for Taco
Tuesday!), Sharkeez, Waterman's, Patrick Molloy's, The Underground and Blue 32, and see the
same people pounding down cocktails as if it were a cosmic art.
Los Angeles has a large number of people who
run frequently, not so much for the exercise but so they don't get too
much of a gut from the glut of parties around here.
With local pubs sitting like a welcome mat at
exactly the halfway point and a huge beer garden at the end as the ultimate
prize, the Redondo Beach 10K is the perfect mix between that exercise and
socialize mentality.
Ocassinally it rains, as was the case in 2008.
The course begins and ends at King Harbor Marina,
goes down palm tree-lined Catalina Avenue, makes a turn toward the sea
in Riveria Village – suggested stop is Hennessey's Tavern at the
3-mile mark of the 6.2-mile run – down the Esplanade for a beautiful
morning view of the blue Pacific Ocean, up a block-long and huffing
hill at the Redondo Pier and back for a short chute to Catalina.
From
there, it's all downhill to the beer garden.
– Super Bowl 10K Party Photos –
Redondo Beach Super Bowl 10K Beer Garden
Warm weather and sunshine made for a packed beer garden in 2010.
The Runaway Brides have pride in their creativity.
– Historical (and Hysterical) 10K Photos –
Whacky is about
the only way to describe runners in the Super Bowl 10K.
After our triumphant
journey, we celebrated in the beer garden.
Posing for one of
our many photos along the scenic seaside route.
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Look who we found: The Village People from Bay
to Breakers!
Past Super Bowl 10K Runs:
• 2008 10K – Rain
and Not Insane
• 2004 26th Annual 10K
• 2003 25th Annual 10K
• 2002 24th Annual 10K
 Another
fun run: Bay to Breakers in San Francisco
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