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2nd Annual Memorial Day All British Malibu Run

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Due to popular demand, the Memorial Day All British Malibu Run is back for a second year!

On Monday, May 29th we will meet at the Malibu Colony Plaza located at 23841 West Malibu Road, at the southwest corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Webb Way, approximately 12 miles north / west from where I-10 turns into PCH. Meeting time is 9:00 AM with rollout at 10:00.

Keep in mind this is an unorganized fun run. Everyone is welcome, even non-British iron (or aluminum).

For those who missed it last year, check out the photos from that run HERE.

More details will be posted soon including a printable route sheet.
 
sweet... I'll be trying my darnedest to be there this time! Life management tools set to make me go to bed at sun down the night before! weeeeee /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
*sigh* prognosis doesn't look good from my vantage....
 
I hope so.
 
I did it... and it twere tons o fun /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Those were some tricky switch backs on... I guess it was Mullholand Hwy?
 
The tight uphill switchbacks was Rock Store Hill on Mulholland Highway. That's a great piece of road.

Gene (in the MG TC) and I decided to get off PCH and turned up Latigo Canyon. My god I forgot how fun that road is! We FLEW through that canyon and had sore arms by the time we got over the hill.
 
yeah... I was wishin' I'd printed a broader map view of the area by the time I got into Malibu proper again. It was stop and go all the way to I-10. It was free sailing from I-10 to the 110, but stop and go at the 110/I-5 interchange, thanks to all the yahoos that jump in at the last second. Once I'd gotten on the 5 it was free sailing all the way to the shack.

PCH though was an exercise in juggling with me feet. Lot's o heal-toe in the stop and go just to keep the car from flaking out on me. Hind sight 20/20 and all that, I bet the 101 would have gotten me back to the shack much faster.
 
You would have been best off driving over one of the canyons to the 101 or 118. Kanan Dume, Malibu Canyon and Topanga Canyon all go directly to the 101 by way of canyons. Topanga Canyon continues across the S.F. Valley to the 118.

Last year there was little to no traffic all day. This year got insane at the end!
 
Westlake Blvd goes to the 101 also. Yeah, I know it’s a little North of where Nunyas was headed. But WHAT a detour!
 
Maybe it was the weather? It _was_ great beach weather yesturday... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I'm gonna have to do a bit more planning for my escape route for the next run. Getting out of there the way I got in was just brutal IMO.

hmmm... i could have taken PCH to Mulholland Hwy to S Westlake Blvd... that would have made for a much more entertaining trip back... paritally anyways /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
That would be a GREAT route. Or a straight shot up Decker which turns into Westlake (the twisty canyon we dove into just before Hidden Valley). That puts you two miles from the 101. But "straight shot" isn't entirely accurate. The road is extremely twisty and narrow. It's also full of decreasing radius, off camber, dual apex, blind turns with sand in them. Fun, but too dangerous to drive fast.

I recommend Encinal Canyon which will merge with Mulholland Highway one mile east of Kanan Dume Road. Kanan goes north 5 miles to the 101 in Agoura Hills.

Or Latigo for a really twisty but extremely fun road, which runs into Kanan Dume just south of Mulholland Highway. That's the route Gene and I decided to take when PCH traffic started to get really bad.
 
I was looking at the possible routes I could have taken to get out of there, and found that I could have taken mountain roads almost half-way home (to about the Woodland Hills area) before having to resort to the freeway just for the sake of avoiding stoplights. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Assuming you're talking about Mulholland Highway, you could have taken it all the way to Topanga Canyon in Woodland Hills.
 
yeah... I think I plotted in a few extra side roads just for the sake of keeping it interesting... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

BTW, the craziest turn I can recall from yesturday had to have been the blind sharp right hander that looked like the road disappeared until you were looking straight down (it felt literally straight down)... it seemed if you were going way too fast it would be possible to launch yourself in to the hillside on the opposite side of the road above on-coming traffic. I was stuck behind two full-size pickups in this section. So the speed through there was probably slower than people further ahead, but still very entertaining. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Was it just after the turn onto Westlake? There are a few terrifying turns on that road where it literally falls away. FUN!
 
hmmmm... maybe? I just remember looking for the road ahead and all I could see was both lanes of the road disappearing and a hill side straight a head. Of course, being in a group as we were, I was able to catch the tail lights of the B in front of me veering to the right as it disappeared over the crest... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Oh yeah... we'd just rounded a left and it went into the blind decreasing radius STEEP downhill right....

erm... now that I think of it... SO many of the turns sound just like that. But this one sticks out in my mind because the hill we went down while going through the turn was so steep... it must have dropped like 20 or more feet in altitude with as many feet travelled foward. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Hill was on the left, valley on the right. Though, we were nearly to the bottom of the valley at this point, within a mile of the valley ranch I think.
 
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