Central Park Track Club

The brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament were announced yesterday, which means it s time for everyone to get their picks in. And what better place to enter those picks than in the annual CPTC Tournament Challenge? (Don’t answer that — it s a rhetorical question.) Just click here, or go to the ESPN tournament [...]

The CPTC site was moved to a new, better server on Monday. Unfortunately, that move revealed some flaws in the code, which may have affected your ability to view certain pages this week. I’ve fixed most of these bugs, and expect to have the rest done soon. If you find any pages that aren’t working, [...]

Included in Esquire s Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30 is a prohibition against reading Gawker. While in general this may be a good idea, following the rule too closely would deprive one of this: First they gave Mary-Kate Olsen a Times byline, but I did not speak out because I was not [...]

From the New York Times, February 24, 1909: Marathon Racing Dangerous There is reason for viewing with considerable apprehension the sudden popularity of the so-called Marathon race—a race, that is, in which the competitors are men or boys and the distance is something over twenty-six miles. In this vicinity, where athletic sports are for the [...]

The NYRR Points Race Series kicks off this weekend, but another, more important contest is right around the corner. Yes, it s ESPN.com s annual Hottest Athletes poll. Okay, there s nothing about it on their site yet, but they re interviewing all the past winners they can — softball pitcher Jennie Finch (2003), soccer [...]

Coach Tony has set up a Feldenkrais workshop to be conducted by Jae Greunke. He writes: I have been doing sessions with her and have found them to be not only interesting but key to my recent success. I highly recommend that you check it out. We ll only have space for 15 people so [...]

Happy 65th Birthday to Muhammad Ali.

Ligaya Mishan has another review in the New York Times Book Review. This time it s for Deborah Cohen s Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions, a “witty and beguiling history of a hundred years of British domestic interiors.” Unfortunately, Ligaya s review makes no mention of how the Victorians felt about the color [...]

Sue Pearsall has posted several hundred photos from last night s track race on her website: Mile 800m 2-Mile

Remember that pyscho coach you had — not on this team, obviously — who never cared when you said you were injured and insisted you keep running anyway? Well, it turns out he may have been right, as the Times details. Some quick guidelines from the sidebar: Evaluate yourself. Is there redness or swelling? Does [...]