Central Park Track Club

The world masters championships is underway in Italy, with several people, including coach Tony competing, but we have not mentioned anything about the national masters championships last month in Maine. A group of ten individuals competed in a variety of sprints, middle distance, distance, and one field event. Some highlights follow. Results here. Marie-Louis Michelsohn [...]

It’s been mentioned already but it bears repeating: our women’s open team won the NYRR Club Championships five mile race in Central Park! You can see video of the race on the Running series on the YES network (the Yankees channel) and on the NYRR website. The next few airings will be on Sunday at [...]

The four mile Fitness, Mind, Body, Spirit Games Presented by McDonald’s on Saturday, September 8 is the next club points race of the year. The deadline for the lower entry fee is Saturday August 25. This race replaced the 5k Shea Stadium run as a club points race. Apparently there will be free McDonald’s samples [...]

The Empire State Games were held in Westchester County this year, which means many more Central Park athletes were able to compete. There were many great performances. In the open championships Adrian Crichlow broke his own club record in the 100 meters, and took the silver with a time of 10.83. Running against athletes 25 [...]

Yes, it’s been a while, but here are more detailed results of the USATF Club Championships from last month, where the women took third place, while the men took sixth. Having the event in New York was certainly helpful for our club, since we were able to use a large group of athletes in the [...]

With the cancellation of the Shea Stadium 5k as a club points race, the five mile Club Championships on August 18, which is a double points race, is the next big road race for the club. As a reminder, the $5.00 early registration entry fee for this race ends on August 4. Everyone is encouraged [...]

It’s a new world out there. Until this year there was no way that teammates, friends and family could see you race at the USATF National Masters track championships. Even major track and field meets are rarely televised, and when they are, only a fraction of the events are shown in their entirety. So it’s [...]

If you watch channel 7 (WABC-TV) in the next few days you will see the same NYC Nike half marathon commercial from last year, with speaking parts for Michael Rennock, Joe Kennedy, and Aileen Conlon (twice). The race will be televised live on WABC Sunday morning at 7:00 AM.

See the excellent article written by our own Dan Seidel (with photos of CPTC runners) in Runningtimes.com. Next check out the 800 photos from the meet at Sue Pearsall s site. There are even more photos from Patrick Cowden s site. Finally, there are a few photos at the USATF website.

The USATF Club Track & Field Championships return to Icahn Stadium in New York this year, and promises to be a great event. Be sure to come out this Friday and Saturday, (July 13 – July 14) to cheer on your teammates. Even though there are qualifying marks needed this year, we have 22 men [...]