Central Park Track Club

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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 [...]

Until last month, when this site switched over to its current WordPress blog format, we were making a new birth announcement at least once a month.  Here’s the September one, penned four weeks ago by John Kerner: Joseph William Kerner joined us on Tuesday, September 16th at 1:30pm on the heels of an all-night rager. [...]

Rich is 12th in the Nation!

Why does Central Park Track Club consistently perform well? Training and support. This past Saturday 60 Central Park Track Club runners took off from the starting line of Grete’s Great Gallop. And less than 80 minutes later the first club members crossed the finish line, completing two loops in Central Park. Thom Little finishing 14th [...]

Welcome to masters running Jill Vollweiler.  Jill won the Nike world race thing in August, ran a flying 5:08 mile in September, and now in October at Grete’s ran 1:19 to finish second overall, first in her age group and first among CPTCers, while notching our highest age-graded score of the day (86.9%). Allez, Jill. Now, what [...]

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I just realized that if I didn’t get around to a write-up on the Philadelphia Half Marathon it would be quickly eclipsed by Grete’s this weekend, so here goes. [click the title to read more]

Harry Murphy cross-country 5k, Van Cortlandt Park (October 12, 2008)