Bikeside LA

There have recently been a series of muggings on the Ballona Creek Bike Path.  LAist, LA MetBlogs, LA Streetsblog, C.I.C.L.E. and Bike Girl have all written about it.  Essentially, we all have the same information, which is this excerpt from an email:
I was riding west on the BC path at a little after 1pm yesterday, [...]

When I lived nearer the concrete canal, I ran there late at night.  Training for a marathon meant running 80 miles each week along the uniform banks of Ballona Creek, and sometimes this became monotonous.
Some chill nights a magical event occurred.  Flying and gliding silently on the flicking knotted wood legs of the long distance [...]