50 minutes, 10.3 miles.

The Axis of Evil has been doing Wednesday night runs in Griffith Park (my regular turf) but they've been starting outside the park, in Silverlake. I hadn't heard if they were running last night, but I planned on going to the starting line. I figured if people were there I'd join them, if not, I'd at least get a run in and see their course. I checked google maps: it said the meeting place was 5.3 miles away and would take about 9 minutes. I left home at 6:15.

It wasn't all the red lights that bothered me so much as the fact that it would take 2 or 3 cycles for me to get through many of the lights. It was a royal pain-in-the-achilles to get there. I didn't make it until 6:50. By then I was so frustrated by the traffic that I didn't want to start running; I figured I would just drive over to Griffith Park and do my regular route. But somehow, amongst all the merging and honking I missed a turn and wound up on the wrong side of the L.A. River and the 5 Freeway. By then there was just no turning back, and I went home. I arrived at 7:05.

50 minutes. 10.3 miles. No running.