Griffith Park Trail Run

As an avid hiker, I expected more.
The views — great.
The marks for the trails — AWFUL!
The only good thing is even if you can’t find the trail you’d like to go on, you end up at the top with an awesome view of LA.
We were wanting to hike to the Hollywood sign and kept asking people along the way and each person gave us a different response.
Please, update/​add signs to the trailheads to we know where to go?

I finished my first trail half marathon today — Griffith Park Half. It was a very warm day and the race was VERY challenging (probably not the best choice for a first trail half). Some words of wisdom for road runners who have interest in doing trail races:
1) Running trails, especially those with sizable elevation changes is a thousand times tougher than you think it might be — train appropriately.
2) Trail runners are a different breed — races are generally small-​scale, but the people are fantastic. The sense of community /​watching out for other runners is great.
This race is VERY well run (race director is apparently legendary in the So Cal trail running community for producing top-​notch races). Great goodie bag & medal (not one, but TWO shirts!), pre-​race food, well-​stocked aid stations on the course (volunteers who manned those were awesome!), post-​race food.
FYI — this is a race weekend! Half is on Saturday, 10k on Sunday. If you run both races, you get a special THIRD medal!

You like running and trails and Griffith Park? Then you are going to love this.

You can’t beat a Wilderness spot in the middle of the city. There are so many trails here. I really checked in here because I got to Morning Crunch Boot camp griffith park… Look for my review on that separately.

I love coming here for bonding time with the girls. The trails are fun and not bad. The view of the City of Angels, the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood sign are not too bad. I am a fan and will be going back every Saturday.

Awesome Trail Running Event
This event is organized by Keira Henninger and if you like trail running, she also has half marathons all over Souther California.
Here are the highlights:
* easy online registration
* email posts regarding information
* bib and shirt pick up so convenient
* great directions to get to the start line
* online information regarding course and other important info
* ample support along the race course between half marathon and 10k runs
* great medal
I am really loving all this trail running and I definitely run another one of Keira’s events