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Photo
of Huntington Beach Main Street
marathon event crowd
Huntington Beach, Calif.-
Huntington Beach Marathon...When
Diane Baker went to City Council to
pitch the idea of closing the
streets for a marathon approx. a
decade ago, the then council members
had many questions about the
inconvenience and planning it would
take to close some of the streets
during for a day so the event could
be hosted along the sea and Central
Park in Huntington Beach. Look at
the crowd in downtown Huntington
Beach on Main Street on a January or
February weekend to see the impact
this event has had on the city of
200,000. The event draws over 10,000
runners and sells out in the
marathon category, even though
there's another sanctioned marathon
just one month later in Newport
Beach.
Marathons are big business and even
though a city most spend much time
and energy planning the street
closures and other maneuvers to host
such an event, the hotel rooms
experience a boom in business in
soft months, and word of mouth
spreads about the host city and its
assets as a destination or place to
live.
February in Huntington Beach, an
Orange County, California city in
Southern California, can be shirt
sleeves or sweaters. It can also
rain, but rain is less likely than
sunshine and blues skies.
If you're planning to visit to have
a vacation, you might avoid the
weekend of the marathon as the hotel
rooms can sell out, prices on rooms
go up, and beach activities and
dining are impacted downtown near
the Huntington Beach Pier.
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