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Long-time club member Michele Santomassino (who is currently pregnant….. with twins) is helping organize the following race.
The Thoracic Oncology Program at Mount Sinai Hospital proudly presents the First Annual Lung Cancer Awareness 5k Run/ 1-Mile Walk
Where: Randall’s Island
When: Saturday November 10, 2007 at 8:15 am
First place male and female win a Sony Flat Screen [...]

Mark your calendars! Sunday, November 4th at The Parlour, West 86th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue, 2:30pm-6:00pm.

CPTC will have a private bus to the start of the New York City Marathon.
When:
5:45 a.m., Sunday, November 4, 2007
Where:
Will leave promptly at 6:00 a.m. from 72nd and West End Ave. Last year we boarded the bus slightly towards the middle of the block, on the North side of 72nd.
Closest subway:
1,2,3,9 to 72nd [...]

As you may have noticed, there are now some new (and old) race results that have recently been posted. We are working on getting more results posted shortly. Priority will first go to club points series races and major out-of-town road and track races, as well as major track meets like the USATF [...]

Grete’s Great Gallop half marathon on October 6 was the latest club points series race and the men’s and women’s open teams, as well as the masters teams, were fighting to stay in the lead, or move up in the standings. For the third club points series race of the year, CPTC women came [...]

And here, as promised yesterday, is the report from Saratoga and the USATF Masters 5K championships.
The best news was on the women s side, where Sylvie Kimche (orange) crushed her competition and won the 60-64 age group. She also finished fourth in age-grading.
Our other medal winner was Mike Trunkes, who ran very tough in a [...]

Sunday, October 14th–again a brilliantly beautiful autumn day (the leaves just turning, yada yada)–and the USATF Masters 5k Cross-Country Championship races are again held in Saratoga Springs. Sylvie Kimche and Chris Potter have snapped a few digitals, and you will find them… right… here!
Results are still being tabulated (translation: they re not on the USATF [...]

Aileen Conlon and Lauren Gustafson ran in the USA 10K championships in Boston (the Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women) on Columbus Day. Running against Deena Kastor and many other elite professional runners, Aileen and Lauren each ran amazing PRs and finished very high up in the race. Aileen continued her relentless quest [...]

The four mile Fitness Mind, Body, Spirit Games club points race on September 8 replaced the 5k Shea Stadium run as a club points race. The race finished on the west side at Tavern on the Green. While this is always a problem when a race is run north and south of the [...]

Congratulation to everyone who competed in the Fifth Avenue Mile! Great weather contributed to great performances. Although there is some debate about how much a possible tail wind aided the performances it’s quite clear that CPTC came to run. Even though most people (even the sprinters) are into the long base training phase [...]