Central Park Track Club

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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 [...]

Joe Kennedy wins the Norwood 5k!

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, the first [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]