Central Park Track Club

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If you plan to run the 1000 meters at Friday s Holiday Classic in the Armory, we strongly recommend arriving early. The meet begins at 9 a.m. with a racewalk that should last roughly 20 minutes, so the first heat of the 1000 will go off after that. Another reason to plan to be early: [...]

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 [...]

We are saddened to report that Doug Hertler s father has passed away. The viewing will be held, Saturday, December 22, 2007 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the GARDNER FUNERAL HOME, RUNNEMEDE, 126 South Black Horse Pike, Runnemede, NJ 08078-1997. The funeral will be held, Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 12:30 PM at [...]

It’s overwhelming. There were so many outstanding performances last weekend that we’re afraid we’re going to forget to mention many of them. Four team wins: open men and women, and 50+ masters men and women. Eleven age group award recipients, two age group winners, and five members winning prize money. Open men win their second [...]

It was a dominating performance by all of the Nike Central Park Club runners who competed at the Joe Kleinerman 10K. CPTC took four victories today: Open men, open women, and 50+ men and women! The open women have won the 2007 Club Points race series! The open women crushed the field even more so [...]

CPTC women take seventh in the country at USA National Club Cross Country Championships! Each year the race becomes more competitive, and after finishing eleventh the last two years, CPTC women broke through this year to break into the top ten. Aileen, Natalie, Kate, Lauren, Lauren, Sarah, and Andrea ran their hearts out in the [...]

Good luck to our women’s open team at the USA National Club Cross Country Championships in Ohio on Saturday. It promises to be a very exiting, competitive, (and muddy) affair. And good luck to Armando and Sue in the masters championships. We’re also looking forward to Sue’s photos of the event. We’ll keep everyone posted.

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 slow. At [...]

UPDATE 12/7/07!! (We have learned of two more victories by CPTC members: Melissa Sherman won the Andrea Holden 5K (18:03)in Massechusetts, and Micah Adriani won the Tallahassee Turkey Trot 5K (18:39) in Florida.) Central Park Track Club members can’t help themselves when it comes to racing. Instead of relaxing on Thanksgiving weekend, we’ve heard of [...]

It was back in September, but we still want to acknowledge the great performances of all of our cross country runners in the only club points cross country race of the year. This was the second points race in two weeks, due to the rescheduling of the previous week’s 4 mile as a team points [...]