"Turkey Trot" races will be held and Thanksgiving Day meals will be given away at multiple sites in Los Angeles today

The event include what's being billed as Pacific Palisades' first special event since January's devastating wildfire.

David O'Connell, a co-founder of Thursday's 11th annual Pacific Palisades Turkey Trot, said the decision to go forward with the race came "right after Labor Day."

"Typically, that's when we start leaning into the event because that's when the back-to-school communications are and that's when sponsors are doing their budgeting and when people are making their plans for the fourth quarter," O'Connell told City News Service.

"The reason we ultimately decided to run it is that the interest was really significant, both on the sponsorship front and the runner

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