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Not every marathon course is equal. Running downhill presents a different challenge than running uphill, but any change in elevation makes a course more difficult. We asked teammates a couple questions about their past experience in the NYC marathon and what they thought about the course.

Yumi Ogita has painted the park orange this fall. Since the team championships in August, Yumi has knocked out a streak of three consecutive faster races, all in the mid 80% range. At the Marathon Kickoff today, she ran a 52-week age-graded percentage PR, with a very strong 84.6% (31:31). She was the fastest CPTC [...]

Thanks to long-time member David Pullman, we now know that the double-double victory at the Harry Murphy XC race was a historical event for the club! It was the first time in a cross country race that CPTC won both the men’s and women’s individual titles and both team titles. (If you remember, [...]

This announcement comes via Toby Tanser (author, marathoner, longtime CPTC member):
Urban Athletics, 1291 Madison Ave (at 92nd St.); 212.828.1906
Tuesday, October 28—meet at 6:45 p.m., run at 7:00, post-run party at 7:30

The last episode of ER is being aired on November 13, but we will give you the front seat: Come for a run with Anthony [...]

Central Park started with 153 members entered to run in this year’s upcoming ING NYC marathon. And as of this article 117 are listed in the marathon database as participating on November 2^nd. We talked to a couple of club members.

By Alex Bruskin
The 2008 USA Masters 5K Cross Country Championship race in Hagan-Stone Park, Greensboro, North Carolina took place this past Sunday, October 12th.  CPTC fielded a competitive 40+ men’s team lead by Birger Ohlsson and Armando Oliveira with strong support by Gladstone Jones, Alex Bruskin, Neil Fitzgerald, and none other than Coach TR himself. [...]

Imagine running a 4:08 mile and then having your coach tell you that you didn’t make the varsity team. Eric Boucher doesn’t have to imagine—it happened to him. But this wasn’t any varsity squad, it was the legendary University of Colorado track team. Eric’s journey to that moment began when he showed up to a [...]

The Staten Island Half was the third half-marathon put on by the NYRRC in about a month, plus an 18-miler thrown in as a lure for long distance mavens Steven Monte and Michael Rennock. Perhaps as a result of the abundance of long races, only six CPTC masters braved an early Sunday morning ferry to [...]