Run for Central Park Registration Closed
July 13th, 2009Registration has closed for New York Road Runners Run for Central Park, which takes place on Saturday July 18th.
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.

Saturday
Sunday
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.
Saturday
Sunday
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.”