ASICS Los Angeles Marathon

The ASICS Los Angeles Marathon is the city's big spring road race, organized by The McCourt Foundation and held on a Sunday in early March. The organizers bill the route as "Stadium to the Stars". It starts at Dodger Stadium and finishes on Santa Monica Boulevard at Avenue of the Stars in Century City, a point-to-point tour across the city's neighborhoods. The full field and the professional men start at 7:00 AM. The professional women go off about 20 minutes earlier, and wheelchair and hand-crank athletes earlier still. The course stays open for 6 hours and 30 minutes after the last runner crosses the start line. Runners slower than 15:00 per mile move to the sidewalk as streets reopen on a rolling basis. There are 19 aid stations, roughly every 1.5 miles, with water and Electrolit, and energy gels at miles 12 and 18. Volunteer pace leaders run groups for finish times from 3:00 to 6:30. Race weekend serves more than 27,000 athletes. The LA 5K and LA Kids Run take place on the Saturday, and the LA Charity Half Marathon runs alongside the marathon on Sunday. Bib pickup is in person only, at the expo in Dodger Stadium's Lot G on the Friday and Saturday before the race. Runners must be at least 16 on race day. The 2026 men's race produced the closest finish in the event's history, decided by one hundredth of a second.