As dusk settles over Los Angeles, members of the Boyle Heights Bridge Runners make their way across the Sixth Street Viaduct. Their route starts at the Mariachi Plaza and goes down S. Boyle Avenue, halfway across the Sixth Street Viaduct, then returns to Mariachi Plaza. The community-based running group was founded in 2013.
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Running clubs, new and old, have built communities across the country. Los Angeles and Chicago clubs were recently featured in De Los. Here are some of the best shots from the photographers we sent to cover the runners.
Los Angeles
Boyle Heights Bridge Runners
The Boyle Heights Bridge Runners stretch before their weekly run.
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Members of the Boyle Heights Bridge Runners make their way across the Sixth Street Viaduct.
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The Boyle Heights Bridge Runners.
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Montebello Run Club
Montebello Run Club members Melanie Acosta, center, and Cesar Cerezo run through the community.
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Montebello Run Club founder Angie M. Jimenez, from left, leads members Valentina Shibata and Marin Vega.
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Jimenez, right, leads members on a run.
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Eastside Traffic
Eastside Traffic running club member Jonathan De Leon runs during a workout at Liberty Plaza Track in Whittier.
(Michael Owen Baker / For De Los)
Eastside Traffic running club leader Eddie Bernal, center, stretches as he talks with Rafa Abundes.
(Michael Owen Baker / For De Los)
Eastside Traffic running club members, from left, Rafa Abundes, Jonathan De Leon, Jessica Abundes, Marcus Owens (squatting), Eddie Bernal, Herbert Estrada, Ernie Montes and Victor Alvarado.
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Eastside Traffic running club member Jonathan De Leon runs during a workout at Liberty Plaza Track in Whittier.
(Michael Owen Baker / For De Los)
Chicago
Venados
Venados member Simeon Jacob finishing his five-mile run with his friend to Lo Rez Brewery in Chicago.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
A runner takes the final stretch to Lo Rez brewery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
Ruby Negrete cheers and encourages the Venados runners who have arrived outside Lo Rez Brewery.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
Venados Running Club members huddle up before their run for a quick picture.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
Tortugas Running Club
Benjamin Acosta, right, runs for the first time with Tortugas Running Club in the Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
Tortugas Running Club members finishing their run.
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Tortugas runners begin to meet up with their dogs in Harrison Park in Chicago.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
Group photo of Tortugas Running Club members.
(Carolina Sanchez / For De Los)
