One of the Palisadians who participated in Sunday’s 30th Los Angeles Marathon was 48-year-old Brian Temple, who completed the scenic 26.2-mile “Stadium to the Sea” course from Dodger Stadium to the Santa Monica Pier in two hours, 54 minutes and 55 seconds, placing 107th overall and third in his age group.
More significant than his finishing time, however, was the more than $7,000 he raised for Sojourn Services serving battered women through the Ocean Park Community Center, a non-profit organization headquartered in Santa Monica.
Temple and his wife Kristi live near Will Rogers State Historic Park and are 14-year Palisadians.
Temple, who graduated from Palisades High in 1985, is a real estate developer and investor who runs three or four marathons per year. He has run for Sojourn in LA the last three years.
In addition to the marathon, Temple also ran Saturday morning’s warm-up race, the BIG 5K, finishing 14th out of 137 entrants in the 45-49 age group and 266th overall in a field of 4,099.
He is training for the Boston Marathon in April and clocked a personal-best 2:47:59 in Chicago last year. Temple is hoping to break his personal record at the Berlin Marathon in Germany in September.
— Steve Galluzzo
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