The Carlsbad 5000 was founded by city resident and champion runner Steve Scott, now the track coach at Cal State San Marcos. The April running event, an international competition, takes participants past the Encina Power Plant, that concrete block with a smockstack that is decorated each December with strings of holiday lights. With his interests in music and sports, Jareth is not at a loss for things to do in Carlsbad. When he and his friends do get bored, they play in his back yard on his family's trampoline, he said. That Pizza Place and Pizza Port.
Kids also like to go to the skate park in Vista.
If there were one drawback that Jareth can find about living in Carlsbad it would be that the city is bereft of snow, which severely limits his snowboarding. And like many of the other couples enjoying the sunset, the Klugs do not live in Carlsbad. The couple said they like Oceanside, their home for the past two years, and they enjoy walking on the pier. Going to the beach in Oceanside means having to pay to park, though, and the retired couple said the expense would add up if they went as often as they go to Carlsbad. Besides, you never know what you'll see on the boardwalk above the beach.