The NYC Running Blog

NYRR and Ultraclay have posted photos from Tuesday night’s Wall Street Run:

• NYRR Wall Street Run Photos
• Ultraclay’s flickr photostream 

NYRR has announced that the NYC Half-Marathon lottery results will be posted and e-mailed this evening at 5:00 p.m. Also tonight is the American Heart Association Start! Wall Street Run & Heart Walk at 6:30 p.m. in the Financial District.

Dathan Ritzenhein won the Healthy Kidney 10K yesterday morning, beating the Central Park 10K record with a time of 28:08 and taking home $27,000 in prize money. He was followed by 5,413 finishers, about 14% more than the amount of finishers at the 2006 Healthy Kidney 10K.

Healthy Kidney 10K race report round-up:

• Full race coverage by NYRR
• Sempre Libera
• New York City Runner Thoughts and Conversations
• Live to Run - Run to Live
• Terrier tracks
• training hard, hardly training
• Runner NYC
• Pre- and post-race discussion on the Runners World Forums
• Race report by rundangerously on the Runners World Forums
• Pre- and post-race discussion on the Cool Running Forums

There is a handful of races going on this weekend in New York City:

Saturday, May 19th:

• Melissa Fund Sun Run, a 5K in Riverside Park at 110th Street.
• Healthy Kidney 10K, a very popular NYRR race in Central Park.

Sunday, May 20th:

• Forest Park Classic, a 4 mile road and trail race in Queens benefiting Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
• NYPD Memorial 5K Run in lower Manhattan benefiting Families of our Heroes.
• Harbor Fitness 5K in Bay Ridge which finishes below the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

Former marathon world record holder Khalid Khannouchi will be running in this Saturday’s Healthy Kidney 10K in Central Park, facing Craig Mottram, Dathan Ritzenhein and a slew of other elite runners. Despite moving to Brooklyn in 1993, Khannouchi has never raced in Central Park, according to this New York Times article.

Previously: Craig Mottram and Dathan Ritzenhein to Face Off at Healthy Kidney 10K

LetsRun Shutterbug has posted over 50 photos from Sunday’s New York Junior League Mother’s Day Races to flickr.

Registration is now open for two July NYRR Races:

• Naples - New York Park to Park: A 10K in Central Park on July 21st which replaces the Dash and Splash.  It still includes a pool party at Lasker Pool at the conclusion of the race.
• Run for Central Park: A 4-miler on July 21st which pays tribute to the Central Park Conservancy.

• Saturday, May 12th at 7:00 a.m.: The CrazyLegz Relay, an 80 mile relay starting in Harriman State Park and ending at Asphalt Green in Manhattan
• Saturday, May 12th at 10:00 a.m. in Tibbetts Park in Yonkers: The Yonkers Firefighter Charity Race 4 miler
• Sunday, May 13th in Central Park: New York Junior League Mother’s Day women-only 10 mile at 9:00 a.m. and co-ed 4 mile at 8:00 a.m.

This weekend’s weather should be great for running: with both Saturday and Sunday being mostly sunny with daily highs in the low 70’s.

Today is the last day of discounted registration for the American Heart Association Start! Wall Street Run, a 5K which takes place in the Financial District at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22nd.

Today is the last day of discounted registration for The Healthy Kidney 10K, which takes place on Saturday, May 19th in Central Park.