road race-7.23.28-scheduled on a sunday. supposedly starting at venice beach. you just know they’ll be including the sammos on both sides of the 405 fwy and pch at some point. rumors include mully and the
rock store climb. dunno the exit point of fhe sammos but would they really tie up beach traffic on both sides of pch on a summer sunday? could see them heading westbound on pch towards pepperdine university and using topanga canyon rd (+ old topanga canyon) or malibu canyon rd to access mully and probably kanan dume to exit the
mountains and drop into the valley. doing any serious climb such as decker, latigo, las flores, yerba buena or deer creek would definitely break up the proceedings. with a race the supposed 250km length, could nibble into the angeles national forest either by placerita canyon, then down little tujunga canyon and/or heading up big tujunga canyon and descending the 2 into la cañada/pasadena. as much as i’d love to see them do a long stretch of the angeles crest hwy (in either direction), that red box to blue ridge segment gets so beat up and is closed too frequently to confidently rely upon. gmr/grr/mt. baldy rd pretty beat up (i’ll take a pre-olympics repave tho!!) currently. griffith park likely to figure in as well. a million (temporary)road closure complaints await! the tt would likely be dtown and incorporate some elysian park, glendale, rose bowl/pasadena and griffith park.

i’m sure the officials/organizers will be going over the old la area tour of california routes/tt maps for what (feasibly) worked and what didn’t. will definitely try to get out on the courses with trying to shoehorn myself into the top of the highest climb most likely.