There are certain groups of antibiotics, such as Ciprofloxacin that can cause muscles to cramp or spasm and if you one of these antibiotics, it's especially important that you stay hydrated and take foods that contain potassium (banana, orange juice, V8) before you go out running long distances. It might be a good idea to run later on during the day because it enables you to do two things, 1) Drink plenty of water throughout the day and 2) Warm the leg muscles up with activity during the day. I found that biking before you run is another easy way to warm the muscles up.
Taking the Amtrak from Los Angeles to San Diego is one of the most relaxing ways to escape the hectic pace of Southern California. The train snails out of Union Station, Los Angeles, and inches it way through the railway ward and proceeds to take you through a tour of industrial backyard of the city which you may have never seen. After some stops along Orange county, notably, Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano, the train breezes through the picturesque beaches south of Laguna Niguel and all the way to the northern San Diego. The Amtrak staff ranges from friendly and effusive to grim and businesslike. But the one thing that struck me as unusual was that after Laguna Niguel, there were stretches where there was only one track for up and down trains and our train had to wait for other trains to pass before we could proceed. The nation's second-largest metropolis connected to it's fifth-largest city via a single train track at times. I am guessing that the oil, the automobile, and the tire industry has still gotten its choke hold on the transit options in Southern California. That one extra train track could cut the train the commute down from Los Angeles to San Diego by at least 30 mins.
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