Editing Long Beach, California (section)

===Long Beach Marathon===
The Long Beach Marathon is run every year in October throughout the City of Long Beach. The annual event includes a variety of races including a Kids Fun Run, a Bike Tour, 5K, Half Marathon and Full Marathon. All races begin and end around the Shoreline Village area of downtown Long Beach. 25,000 runners and cyclists participated in the 2013 festivities drawing nearly 50,000 people attending the event overall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://runlongbeach.com/history-of-the-marathon/|title=Run Long Beach – History Of The Marathon|work=runlongbeach.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101012807/http://runlongbeach.com/history-of-the-marathon/|archive-date=January 1, 2014|date=April 25, 2017}}</ref> The full marathon is a fast Boston qualifying course passing through sandy beaches, Belmont Shore, and the [[Cal State Long Beach]] campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://runlongbeach.com|title=Run Long Beach – Long Beach International City Bank Marathon – October 12, 2014|work=runlongbeach.com|date=April 25, 2017|access-date=March 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101021733/http://runlongbeach.com/|archive-date=January 1, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>