L.A. Marathon: Run the race without ever breaking a sweat
Too hot on Sunday to run the L.A. Marathon? Try the race from the comfort of your own home. Enter your mile pace or marathon time here and see how you stack up against your friends, previous marathon runners and some unexpected participants — such as a Metro bus, a grizzly bear or a BB-8 astromech droid — in the 26.2-mile trek from Dodger Stadium to Ocean Avenue.
Enter your stats:
And or race a celebrity below:
Ogla Kimaiyo
2015 winner
Daniel Limo
2015 winner
Michael "Flea" Balzary
Ran in 2012
Gordon Ramsay
Ran in 2012
Shia LaBeouf
Ran in 2010
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Ran in 2006
Ben Gibbard
Ran in 2011
Alison Sweeney
Ran in 2012
California grizzly
Last ran in 1922
Metro Bus
Runs daily
BB-8
Rolled a long time ago in a galaxy far far away
Unladen Swallow
African or European?
Watch your race:
Sources: The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times photography, Los Angeles Marathon.
Notes: The speed of a Metro bus was found by taking the average time of the 2 along its route from Dodger Stadium to Pacific Coast Highway on a Sunday morning and applying that to the length of a marathon. It's expected that the presence of 26,000 runners will slow it down somewhat. Bear times are based on their top running speed over a few miles. BB-8's time was determined by Rhett Allain for Wired. The airspeed velocity for an unladen swallow was obtained from Wolfram Alpha. Animal times may vary.
Lily Mihalik contributed to this graphic.