The NYC Running Blog

The Memorial Day Four Mile Run will be taking place in Staten Island on Monday at 9:00 a.m. The race starts on Father Capodanno Boulevard and finishes on the boardwalk.

For those of you who did not make it into the NYC Half-Marathon in the lottery, Nike will be holding a raffle for entries into to the race (and other prizes) after a training run on the evening of Thursday, May 31st. This is according to an e-mail sent out by Nike last night. The training run will convene at Pier I Cafe at West 70th Street and the Hudson River at 6:30 p.m.

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 for the NYC Half-Marathon will be closing at 11:59 p.m. on this Wednesday, May 16th.  For those that do not have guaranteed entry into the race, lottery results will be available on Tuesday, May 22nd.

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.