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Last month, CPTC sent three teams — Open Men’s and Women’s teams as well as a Master Women’s team — to the National Club Cross Country Championships in Spokane, Washington.  After some delayed flights and airport fun, the team finally made it to Spokane.
The team arrived late (really late after flight delays) Thursday night in [...]

Good luck and fast times to all our team members who are headed out to Spokane to run in the USATF Club Cross Country National Championships this weekend.

While most people spend Thanksgiving Day in a tryptophan-induced haze, engaging in awkward political arguments with drunk relatives, or oohing-and-aaahing at the floats in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, many CPTC’ers couldn’t let well enough alone. Instead, they laced up their racing flats at ungodly hours and went to run Turkey Trots. An admirable fanaticism, for which we should all give thanks.

Come and celebrate the year of running with your teammates.

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If you want the usual questions and answers about Coach Devon Martin fast-women.com did an interview back in 2007. We tried to dig a little deeper but were met with a brick wall.

As an athlete, you can spend hundreds of hours training and preparing for your race. For some, that race only last seconds, others minutes, and for the marathoners this past weekend, the race lasted hours. There can’t be a bigger race in the world. Crossing the starting line, you are racing the clock, yourself, and [...]

Not every marathon course is equal. Running downhill presents a different challenge than running uphill, but any change in elevation makes a course more difficult. We asked teammates a couple questions about their past experience in the NYC marathon and what they thought about the course.

Central Park started with 153 members entered to run in this year’s upcoming ING NYC marathon. And as of this article 117 are listed in the marathon database as participating on November 2^nd. We talked to a couple of club members.

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 [...]

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 [...]