The NYC Running Blog

Registration has closed for New York Road Runners Run for Central Park, which takes place on Saturday July 18th.

With just under 17 weeks until the New York City Marathon, many training programs have already begun.  If you still haven’t started a program and are looking for one, New York Road Runners has an online training program provided by TrainingPeaks for $45 and a 14-week training class in NYC directed by Bob and Shelly Glover (authors of The Competitive Runner’s Handbook) which costs from $399-$549.  NYRR has also provided a free  basic guide to training with schedules for six different skill levels.

The New York Times has a free online resource called Run Well, which includes training programs from McMillan, Gallaway, Team for Kids, and New York Flyers.

NYRR’s Run for Central Park, a 4-miler which takes place on Saturday, July 18th is nearing registration capacity according to NYRR.org.

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.

Summer Streets

Saturday

• 9:00 AM: Front Runners New York Lesbian and Gay Pride Run 5-miler in Central Park. This race is still open for registration and is a NYC Marathon qualifier.
• 9:00 AM: 8th Annual Luke M. Parlatore Memorial 3M [PDF race application] in Staten Island

Sunday

• 8:25 AM: Achilles Hope & Possibility 5M in Central Park. This race is still open for registration and is a NYC Marathon qualifier. CORRECTION: this race is NOT a NYC Marathon qualifier.
• 9:30 AM: 17th Annual Cosme’s Coney Island Boardwalk 5K Run/Walk in Brooklyn

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:

• Official Results from NYRR
• Video from NYRR
• Finish line video from ABC 7
• Never Quit, Never Stop race report
• Training For My First Next Marathon race report
• New York Barefoot Runner race report
• Training Log race report
• Running with High Heels On race report with photos
• Runner’s World forum discussion thread
• The Running Laminator

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.

Saturday

• 9:00 AM: Hunts Point Hustle 5K at Hunts Point Riverside Park in The Bronx
• 9:15 AM: New Balance Girls on the Run 5K in Manhattan
• 10:00 AM: Good Shepherd Sports 5K Run/Walk in Brooklyn

Sunday

• 8:30 AM: NYRR Presents: The 10th Annual Father’s Day Race Against Prostate Cancer Sponsored by ABC-7 and 1050 ESPN in Central Park.  This NYRR race is sold out.  You can watch finish cameras streamed over the internet at WABC 7’s website.
• 9:15 AM: Alfred Ronaldson Memorial 5K in Staten Island
• 10:00 AM: 5th Annual Take Your Base – 5K Run/Walk for Cancer in Brooklyn

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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…

Read the press release from New York Road Runners…

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.”

Continue reading at Bloomberg.com…