2011 NYC Marathon - Are You In? Follow the Lottery LIVE Today at Noon!

The New York Road Runners Club holds the lottery for the remaining spots in the 2011 New York Marathon at 12 Noon (Eastern) today, and you can watch it live at www.nyrr.org/tv/. [UPDATE: If you go to that link you'll find a place to enter your name or entry number, and the page will telll you if you've gotten into the race.] The NYRRC is calling this the NYC Marathon "opening day," and is reminding us that it's only 192 days until the big event.

Various guests are on hand for the event in Central Park, including past NYC Marathon champion and U.S. Olympian Meb Keflezighi and actor (and NYC Marathon finisher) Ed Norton. The NYRR is also posting photos from the event at its Tumblr page, nyrr.tumblr.com.

Good luck to all who are in the lottery and hoping to get into this Fall's New York Marathon!

2011 NYC Half Marathon - Sunday! - RESULTS, Runner Tracking, Course, Elite Competitors, More

Runners get to take over the streets of Manhattan Sunday in the NYC Half Marathon, and middle-of-the-pack runners will be running the course along with elite athletes from around the world (more on them later). The race starts at 7:30 a.m. Here are some links for more information:
(UPDATE: NYC Half Marathon results now available here.)

NYC Half Marathon course map: The NYC Half begins on the Upper East Side in Central Park and makes a complete outer loop of the park, then goes down Seventh Avenue to Times Square, then along the Hudson River waterfront, and then to Lower Manhattan, near the financial district. (The page also details Manhattan road closures for the race.)

* Watch it online: You can follow the NYC Half live (and also on demand) at the NY Road Runners Club's new online TV channel.

* NYC Half Marathon runner tracking: There are three ways to track individual runners during the race, online, via e-mail, and via text message; see details at the link.

* Elite runners: There are quite a few elite runners from around the world running in the NYC Half Marathon. On the men's side, there are Americans Ryan Hall (the U.S. half-marathon record holder) and 2009 NYC Marathon champion Meb Keflezighi, as well as 2010 NYC Marathon champion Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia and Mo Farah of Great Britain, the 2010 European champion at 10,000 and 5,000 meters.

Elite runners in the women's field include U.S. Olympian Kara Goucher, Yuri Kano of Japan, and Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, the 2010 winner of both the NYC Marathon and the L.A. Marathon.

This will be a great race for runners and spectators, and the temperatures will be cool Sunday morning and ideal weather for distance running. Good luck to all participants!

NYRR Club Team Championship Races - Results Posted

Results have been posted for the 2010 New York Road Runners Club Team Championship Races. With so many running clubs and team members in the New York metro area, this five-mile race is always a hotly contested competition for bragging rights -- and team points.

Here are the links for results for the 2010 NYRR Club Team Championship races, broken down by gender:

* NYRR Men's Team Championships results
* NYRR Women's Team Championship results

Congrats to all competitors!

Queens Half Marathon - Race Results

See 2011 Queens Half Marathon results here. This year's race took place Saturday, July 30th.

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Race results are posted for the NYRR Queens Half Marathon, which was held this hot and steamy morning. As usual, you can view all the results in order, list them by age, gender, etc., or search using particular fields.

The Queens Half-Marathon race statistics say that 3,668 people finished the race (I was one of them), and it was definitely one of the tougher, more uncomfortable races I've ever run.

The good news was that from miles 4 to 8 or so the sky was overcast, giving a break from the sun. And a nice breeze was blowing at various times during the race, offering much-needed relief. Congrats to all finishers on completing the course under some very tough conditions!

Oh, and up next in the five-borough half-marathon challenge is the Bronx Half-Marathon, August 15th.

2010 NYC Half Marathon Results

2010 NYC Half Marathon results have been posted here at the official New York Road Runners Web site. As usual, you can search for runners by name and bib number, or view results by gender, age group, team, etc. The race was held in the streets of Manhattan this morning under glorious, sunny skies.

Congrats to all finishers of the 2010 NYC Half Marathon, especially my New York-area running friends!

NYRR 2010 Manhattan Half-Marathon Results

The 2010 Manhattan Half-Marathon results are in. The race, the first of the year in the New York Road Runners' annual five-borough half-marathon challenge, was held Sunday, January 24th. As usual, you can search the results by name, bib number, gender, club name, etc.

Congrats to all runners! I had a good pace most of the way, but had to stop a few times, which hurt my time. Several people I know were able to set PRs today--great work!

2009 Grete's Great Gallop Race Results (Norwegian Festival), Central Park

If you didn't get to check your results posted in Central Park this morning, or you want to see where you stacked up against the field, you can see the results of the 2009 Grete's Great Gallop half-marathon here. (I didn't see my results in the Park because, well, I was pretty far down in the results and they hadn't posted that page yet. On the plus side, I hadn't run a half in several years and really had no business running one in the shape I'm in, but it was good to get it in the books.)

The weather held up for the race (running 13.1 miles in the rain is no fun at all), and the Norwegian hosts of the festival once again plied visitors with bagels with lox and cream cheese and those tasty waffles with berries. And Grete Waitz herself was again on hand, looking great for someone who had cancer a few years ago. Long may she run!

2008 ING New York City Marathon - Running Expos, Viewing Guide, and TV Coverage

The 2008 ING New York City Marathon takes place this Sunday, November 2nd, and even if you're not running it there are plenty of ways to get involved... here are a few.

* NYC Marathon runners have to attend the Health and Fitness Expo to pick up their registration materials, but the rest of us can go whenever we like. There are shoe companies, fitness demonstrations, and more.

* Where are the best spots to view the big race? The New York Road Runners Club offers a 2008 NYC Marathon spectators' guide.

* If you'll be following the race from the comfort of your couch or somewhere else with a TV nearby, the NYRRC lists the TV viewing coverage for the race. The NYC Marathon will be covered live in the New York area on NBC (channel 4) from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. In the rest of the U.S., NBC Sports will show a one-hour highlights program starting starting at 3 p.m. EST on November 2nd.

Universal Sports TV Network will air the race live starting at 9 a.m. EST on its digital network, with a three-hour replay at 9 that night. Check the NYRRC TV article above for information on how to view the race from outside the U.S.

Results - 2008 Queens Half Marathon

It was a hot and muggy day for the 30th anniversary of the Queens Half Marathon. This is one of the races in the New York Road Runners Club's grand prix half marathon series. Click here for the results of the 2008 Queens Half Marathon, which took place on Sept. 14th, 2008.

Race Results - Naples-New York Park to Park Race, Central Park, July 13th

Here is the race results page for the Naples-New York Park to Park 10K Race in Central Park, July 13th. This was the companion race to the run held in Naples, Italy a few weeks back. Some folks were lucky enough to run in both races. It was a warm, muggy race, but fortunately the 8 a.m. start time got us in and out before things got too hot.

As usual, you can search for runners by name or bib number, or view the results for the entire race, or view them by gender or by age group.

The race had originally been scheduled for the day before, but was moved back due to the Bon Jovi concert taking place in Central Park Saturday night.

Race Results - NYRR Father's Day Fight Against Prostate Cancer Run

Results are posted for the New York Road Runner's Club Fight Against Prostate Cancer Run, and you can find them here.

Sponsored by WABC TV, this year's Fight Against Prostate Cancer Run attracted more than 5,500 runners for the five-mile race. A kids' race was also held the same day. For information on future NYRR races, visit their Web site at www.nyrr.org.