Central Park Track Club

Back in September, on the same day as the 5K cross country points race, many CPTC members traveled to Pennsylvania to run in the Philadelphia Distance Run half marathon. The results are now posted in the “race results” section of the website. Can you say total domination? The first four teams overall were CPTC teams [...]

The age-graded lists for the CPTC oudoor track season have just been posted in the “Race Results” section of the website. These lists were put together by Joe Bolster. The top 20 performers are included for men and women, for both open and masters (each person has their best performance listed). We could find only [...]

As part of this very exciting running weekend, after the Olympic Trials Marathon is finished, the Bad Boy cross country races will be run later on Saturday in Van Cortlandt Park (8k for men and 5k for women). The women’s race goes off at 2:30 PM, followed by the men’s race at 3:10 PM. You [...]

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 Club Champs.

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 in [...]

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 towards the [...]

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 72nd street [...]

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 of their [...]

The Norwegian Festival Grete s Great Gallop Half-Marathon on Saturday, October 6, is the next club points race. The deadline for the lower entry fee is Friday September 21. The open men won last Sunday’s 5k cross country race which puts the men back into second place in the standings. The open women took second [...]

Since some people are running the half marathon in Philidelphia next weekend, everyone else is strongly encouraged to enter and run the NYRR Fred Lebow Cross Country 5k next Sunday, September 16, in Van Cortlandt Park. This is a club points race and the club needs as many people running as possible. Remember, this may [...]