Central Park Track Club

Newspaper, online, magazine articles about Central Park Track Club members.

CPTC Sprint Coach and Lehman College Head Coach Lesleigh Hogg took his men’s and women’s teams to second place in this year’s CUNY indoor championship. Both teams were hoping to win their third straight conference titles but the men lost narrowly. 
Irfan Anwar was expected to contribute big time by running four events and he [...]

The Royal Gazette wrote a story on Sid Howard’s 31st Bermuda race. Each year, Sid takes part in the Bermuda International Race Weekend, usually running the 10K and helping out at race registration.
He’s been to Bermuda so many times,  almost nonstop for 31 years, that local runners consider him an honorary Bermudian.

Hank Schiffman explains the virtues of joining a running club over at http://nycruns.com/blogs/why-join-a-running-club.html.

SIlive.com published a storyon John Pollina’svictory in a 3-mile race over the Thanksgiving holiday. Pollina pulled away at the end to run 15:15.

In a blitz of media coverage, Runner’s World and the NY Times describe long-time CPTC member George Hirsch’s recent NYC marathon after a five year retirement. And after running the Chicago Marathon last month.
We may know Hirsch’s name as the chairman of NY Road Runners. But he was also the founder of Runner, a magazine [...]

Dustin Fure and his girlfriend, Emily, were featured recently in the New York Times.

Jake Pearson of the NY Daily News follows up on Joanel Lopez after his return home from Taiwan. Some of his key experiences in Taiwan included the traffic getting to the stadium. Thanks to the Daily News and the generosity of its readers, Lopez’s fundraising efforts proved successful and enable him to win gold [...]

Sid Howard and Sylvie Kimche both receive nice accolades for their Fifth Avenue Mile performances in Runner’s World’s Daily News blog.

There’s a great and wide-ranging Runner’s World interview of Sid Howard by Peter Gambaccini.

Joanel Lopez just threw 16.26 meters to win gold in the shot put at the XXI Deaflympics in Taiwan this week. This also places him second on the Top 10 list.