For three Saturdays in August, The City of New York will be closing down a 6.9 mile stretch of Manhattan streets to allow them to be used for recreational purposes. The route will connect the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park. The program takes place on August 8th, 15th, and 22nd from 7:00am until 1:00pm.
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Over 4,500 runners finished NYRR’s Annual Father’s Day Race Against Prostate Cancer in Central Park on Sunday morning. Here is a round up of race coverage:
Andre Exume, 74, was profiled in The Daily News about his New York City Marathon training:
Retired civil engineer Andre Exume, 74, has been running 10 miles every morning to get in shape – after finishing last year’s 26-mile run in six hours, 45 minutes.
“I was very unhappy with my performance. I was feeling under the weather. I can do much better,” said Exume, who came to the U.S. from Haiti in 1965.
This Nov. 1, he’s aiming to outdo his personal best of four hours, 18 minutes – which he set in 1993 at the tender age of 58.
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Reuters is reporting that NBC & New York Road Runners have extended their broadcast and advertising revenue sharing deal for another three years, starting with the 2009 New York City Marathon. NBC will be doubling its national coverage of the race to two hours and the New York affiliate WNBC will be offering more than five hours of race coverage.
Read the article at Reuters…
From Bloomberg.com:
Minutes after Sean Swift won the annual JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge this week in New York’s Central Park, he fired off a text message to last year’s champion.
“Thanks for not running this year,” Swift, 24, wrote to his friend Karl Dusen, an analyst at American International Group Inc. who took the title in 2006, 2007 and 2008. “Maybe now I’ll get a bonus.”
The NYRR Dash 10K (nee NYRR Park to Park & NYRR Dash & Splash) had over 4,500 finishers under overcast skies in Central Park. Below is race coverage from around the web:
New York Times has launched Run Well, an online tool meant to help runners choose a training plan for an upcoming race and track progress toward their goal. Fourteen different training plans are available and are based on ability: beginner, intermediate or advanced. New York Times plans to continue to enhance and develop the tool with additional features. Their Gadgetwise blog has more information about this new online training tool.
This year’s New York City Marathon Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge will feature working mothers from each of the five boroughs of New York City:
One representative will be chosen from each New York City borough to form a team of five runners for the Challenge. The team must run the first 13-miles of the Marathon together, and then they can break away for the remainder of the race.
The Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge team will be treated as VIPs during the pre and post race festivities, and will be featured on the WNBC-TV live television broadcast of the ING NYC Marathon on November 1.
Click here for more details about applying for the Five Borough Challenge.