This coming Sunday, Nov 7th marks two events that ask for a bit of preparation and planning for us Angelenos: The LA MARATHON & the Fall Clock Change/ End of Daylight Savings

MARATHON FIRST: - here’s what you need to know, from KTLA’s Digital Staff writers (KATLA.COM):

“The 2021 Los Angeles Marathon returns on Nov. 7, debuting a new 26.2-mile course that is expected to draw thousands of runners from around the world. 

The marathon’s new “Stadium to the Stars” course begins at Dodger Stadium, runs through West Hollywood and Beverly Hills before ending on Avenue of the Stars in Century City. ( click on photo to ENLARGE map)

That means that the course will follow its traditional route until Brentwood, where runners double back on San Vicente, Sepulveda and Santa Monica boulevards before finishing at Avenue of the Stars. Organizers say this will allow for a more interactive finish and greater spectator participation.

Road closures

The Marathon course will be closed to vehicular traffic for six hours and a half right after the last runner crosses the start line. The course will then begin reopening to vehicular traffic on a rolling basis.

Road closures will begin at 4 a.m., with some roads closed through the afternoon.

These roads will be closed:

• Elysian Park Avenue: between Dodger Stadium and Sunset Boulevard (4 a.m. to 9 a.m.)
• Sunset Boulevard: from Park Avenue to Figueroa Street (4 a.m. to 9:20 a.m.)
• Cesar Chavez Ave: from Bunker Hill to Alameda Street (4 a.m. to 9:32 a.m.)
• Broadway: from Cesar Chavez Avenue to Alpine Street (4 a.m. to 9:35 a.m.)
• Alpine Street: from Hill to Alameda streets (4 a.m. to 9:35 a.m.)
• Spring Street: from College to 1st streets (4 a.m. to 9:35 a.m.)
• 1st Street: from hope to San Pedro streets (4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
• Los Angeles Street: from Temple to 5th streets (4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
• 4th Street: from Los Angeles to Main streets (4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
• Main Street: from 5th to Temple streets (4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
• 3rd Street: from San Pedro to Hill streets (4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
• Hill Street: from 4th to Temple streets (4 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
• 1st Street: from San Pedro to Hope streets (4 a.m. to 10:05 a.m.)
• Grand Avenue: from Cesar Chavez Avenue to 2nd street (4 a.m. to 10:05 a.m.)
• Temple Street: from Alameda Street to Glendale Boulevard (4 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.)
• Edgeware Road: from Temple to Boston streets (4 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.)
• Bellevue Avenue: from Sunset to Glendale boulevards (4 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.)
• Glendale Boulevard: from Temple Street to Sunset Boulevard (4 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.)
• Sunset Boulevard: from Echo Park Avenue to Virgil Avenue (4 a.m. to 11:10 a.m.)
• Hollywood Boulevard: from Hillhurst Avenue to La Brea (4 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
• Orange Avenue: from Hollywood Boulevard to Sunset Boulevard (4 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
• Sunset Boulevard: from Highland Avenue to Doheny Drive ( 5 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.)
• San Vicente Boulevard: from Sunset Boulevard to Melrose Avenue (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Santa Monica Boulevard: La Cienega Boulevard to Sierra Drive (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Doheny Drive: from Nemo Street to Wilshire Boulevard (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Burton Way: from Robertson Boulevard to Rexford Drive (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• S. Santa Monica Boulevard: from Rexford Drive to Moreno Boulevard (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Rodeo Drive: from Santa Monica to Wilshire boulevards (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Wilshire Boulevard: from Beverly Drive to Santa Monica Boulevard (5 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
• Santa Monica Boulevard (WB and EB Lanes):  from Wilshire to Sepulveda boulevards (5 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
• Sepulveda Boulevard: from Santa Monica Boulevard to Wilshire Avenue (5 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.)
• Wilshire Boulevard (WB and EB Lanes): Sepulveda Boulevard to Barrington Avenue (5 a.m. to 2:20 p.m.)
• San Vicente Boulevard: from Wilshire Boulevard to Saltair Avenue (5 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Some ramps along the north and southbound 110 Freeway will also be affected, so will some ramps on the southbound 405 Freeway.

CLOCK FALL BACK– END OF  DAYLIGHT SAVINGS: (from Jeff Goldman @ NJ. com)

Clocks officially “fall back” at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November to 1 a.m.

Daylights Savings Time  concludes at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, when the clock will “fall back” one hour and in theory we get one extra hour of sleep.

The concept dates back more than a century when English architect William Willett proposed the idea to change the clocks in 1907 in The Waste of Daylight.

The suggestion of using daylight more efficiently can be traced to Benjamin Franklin. While visiting in Paris in 1784, he wrote a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris calling for a tax on every Parisian whose windows were shuttered after sunrise to “encourage the economy of using sunshine instead of candles,” according to Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.

Photos by Miguel A. Amutio on Unsplash