Central Park Track Club

Ever been to a doctor whose solution to any injury you have is to tell you to stop running? Thankfully, we haven’t, but we know they re out there. The Times solution — see a doctor who’s also an athlete. Or you could just try to find a doctor who actually knows [...]

Happy Birthday to Coach Devon. As always, we have too much tact to even think of mentioning her age, but it rhymes with sporty.

There will be a run in Central Park tonight in honor of Doug Stern. Details:
1st Annual Jingle-Bell Fun Run for Doug Stern
Thursday, December 20th
6pm – 7pm
Central Park Reservoir
To enter, all you need to do is buy a jingle bell from Mike Keohane for $10 (all of which goes to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) [...]

We all know that running with headphones on can be dangerous, and that in nearly every race it is officially banned by the race organizers (though that ban is rarely enforced). But ESPN s Jeff Pearlman has discovered an even better reason to go pod-free in the marathon: wearing headphones makes you really [...]

Tired of running the same boring Van Cortlandt Park course every time? Want to see the hidden parts of Prospect Park instead? (The answer to both of those questions should be yes). Then head over to Brooklyn this Saturday, for City Coach s Autumn 4-Miler. Sure, they might not have given [...]

You may have thought that the big story at yesterday s NYC Marathon was the victories by Paula Radcliffe and Martin Lel. Or maybe the impressive times by your CPTC teammates (which are actually posted on this site!). Or even the fact that the Bronx runner won the Five Borough Challenge (though even [...]

Ligaya Mishan has another book review in the New York Times, this time for Nicholas Christopher s Bestiary.
We would like to point out that we mention every one of her reviews on this page, and she still never writes any specifically for us. Even worse, she s now reviewing restaurants for The New Yorker, [...]

Stacy Creamer alerted us to this press release from the DOT. For those of you who just want the highlights, the important part is:
New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today announced further restrictions on vehicular traffic in Central Park. Beginning on Monday, August 6, [...]

We are planning a group run on the carriageway trails in the Mohonk Preserve (near New Platz) this Sunday. These are soft-surface wide trails built at the turn of the 20th Century for horse-drawn carriages so that they are never too steep and, as it turns out, ideal for running. The Mohonk Preserve [...]

“In the name of enlightened moderation vulgarity has been promoted—women running in marathons, brothels, pornography in CD shops. . .”
Abdul Rashid Ghazi, quoted in this week s New Yorker. (Emphasis Added)