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!

RESULTS - 2009 Tunnel to Towers Run, Brooklyn to Manhattan - Sept. 27th

RESULTS AVAILABLE: Update 9/28: Tunnel to Towers results have been posted here. You can search for individual runners or view results by category.

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Today the 2009 Tunnel to Towers Run, from Brooklyn to Manhattan, was held under rainy skies. The race commemorates the journey of FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, who on 9/11/01 ran from his firehouse in Brooklyn through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the World Trade Center, where he died when the towers collapsed. After the race there is a festival with food and entertainment, which is probably a bit subdued by the weather today.

See the official 2009 Tunnel to Towers Run Web site for news of street closures, the foundation that benefits from the race, and of course race results, which will be posted later. For Tunnel to Towers race results from last year's event, see here.

2009 Akron Marathon - Race Results

Here is the link for results for the 2009 Akron Marathon, which was run Sept. 26th in Akron, Ohio. The results page has various options for viewing the results of this year's marathon, half marathon, and relay events, as well as the results from previous years' Akron Marathon.

For additional information on the race, see www.akronmarathon.org.

2009 Great Cow Harbor Run - Results

The 2009 Great Cow Harbor Run had beautiful weather, and the results are now online at http://cowharborrace.com/results.htm. There you'll also find results for the previous years' races.

Congrats to all participants!

The Nike Human Race is Back for 2009

It turns out Nike is returning for a second edition of its worldwide Nike Human Race 10K this year, and the date is October 24th. With August nearing an end and no word of the event, I'd been assuming Nike wasn't holding the event, which was a combination of a series of formal races around the world and many more run-your-own-10K individual events.

Here is an excerpt from a Nike press release (from TriathlonTraining.net):

"Nike-hosted Human Race events will be held in more than 24 cities from New York City to Los Angeles, Buenos Aires to Rome. Through Nikeplus.com, however, every city and every road can become a race day course. By combining the virtual running world with the physical, the Nike+ Human Race is open to anyone, anywhere. Race registration opens August 18 on Nikeplus.com. By registering, runners will be able to participate in one of several Nike-hosted events or choose to run where they are on race day."

This year's Human Race seems to be scaled down significantly from last year's. And of the 24 cities, only three are in the United States: New York City; Columbus, Ohio; and Los Angeles.

The 2009 New York Nike Human Race takes place in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, starting at 8 a.m. This has got to be an improvement over last year's chaotic race on Randall's Island, which featured running across sites that were under construction and, at one point, coming to a complete halt as runners hit a bottleneck waiting to run over a narrow bridge.

Maybe Nike realized it bit off more than it could chew last year and decided to pare down this year's events for logistical as well as economic issues.

2009 NYC Half-Marathon - Results, Runner Tracking, TV Highlights

Today was the 2009 NYC Half-Marathon, and Tadese Tola of Ethiopia and Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain took the race in the men's and women's divisions, respectively.

In case you weren't able to watch the race live at the New York Road Runners' Web site, ABC TV in New York (channel 7) will broadcast a one-hour show of highlights from the 2009 NYC Half-Marathon at 11:35 p.m. on Sunday night.

You can use the runner tracking feature to see how a particular runner did, searching by name, bib number, city, country, etc.

Beach to Beacon 2009 Results

The 2009 Beach to Beacon 10K Run took place today, August 1st, from Cape Elizabeth to the Portland Head Light on the coast of Maine. Here you can find the Beach to Beacon 2009 race results - www.beach2beacon.org/results09.htm

You can also find results of the Beach to Beacon races from previous years. The race was begun by former Olympic Marathon champion Joan Benoit Samuelson, a native of Maine.