Central Park Track Club

Old posts migrated from the old website.

Back in September, on the same day as the 5K cross country points race, many CPTC members traveled to Pennsylvania to run in the Philadelphia Distance Run half marathon. The results are now posted in the “race results” section of the website. Can you say total domination? The first four teams overall were CPTC teams [...]

Was it really only three weeks ago? Everyone was there, it seems. Le tout monde, in glittering medals and jewels. And what a picture they made. Little Emma Bovary, waltzing with the Baron! Seriously…that was one memorable gathering on October 30th. The CPTC 35th Anniversary Benefit, aka An Evening with Frank Shorter, Featuring Olympians Past [...]

What a vile idea. Getting up early on the only holiday between Labor Day and Christmas–a morning invariably overcast and bone-chillingly wet–just to run an obscure race that no one will hear about. And the name is a misleading come-on, just like in “turkey shoots” not a single turkey-fowl is harmed or processed at these [...]

Tony s distance group will be starting training indoors at The Armory (168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue) on Tuesday, December 4th at 7:30pm. (Devon s middle-distance group will start on November, 27th at 6:35pm.) These coached workouts will be held every Tuesday night through to early April. To participate in these workouts you will [...]

The age-graded lists for the CPTC oudoor track season have just been posted in the “Race Results” section of the website. These lists were put together by Joe Bolster. The top 20 performers are included for men and women, for both open and masters (each person has their best performance listed). We could find only [...]

We received the following email today: I m a student at Columbia s graduate school of journalism. I was assigned to write an opinion column for one of my classes. Since I m a runner myself, and am planning to run my first marathon this weekend in Philadelphia, I thought it would be interesting to [...]

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 this race as cool [...]

The Central Park Track Club annual awards dinner and dance will take place on Saturday, December 15th, 7pm-12:30am. It will take place at the New York City Fire Museum, 278 Spring Street. This is our social highlight of the year so please mark this in your calendars. Invites and ticket information will be sent out [...]

That is…HERE! If you need to renew your USA Track & Field membership for 2008, this is the inexpensive way to do it. Print out this form (that link again) and mail it with your $25 check (payable to MAC Association): Marilyn Mitchell USATF MAC Membership 330 East 46th Street, Apt. 4C New York NY [...]

If you want to sneak in one more 5K on the Van Cortlandt Park course this year, there s still time. Front Runners hosts its Fifth Annual Cross Country Race this Saturday. Registration is at 9 a.m., and the race is at 10 a.m. Prizes to the top three male and female finishers. It s [...]