Races
Races are held nearly every weekend and include such perennial races as:
- New York City Marathon
- Fifth Avenue Mile
- NYC Half Marathon
- UAE Healthy Kidney 10K, a men's elite and mass race in Central Park in May
- New York Mini 10K, a women's only 10 km race in June
- Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, a fun-race around Central Park beginning at Midnight on New Year's Eve
- NYRR Knickerbocker, a 60 km (37.2 mi) race. Former winners include the professional poker player Dara O'Kearney
- More Magazine Marathon and Half-Marathon, a women's only race for women over 40 years of age
- Empire State Building Run Up
- Salsa, Blues & Shamrock 5k, run before St. Patrick's Day
Read more about this topic: New York Road Runners
Famous quotes containing the word races:
“Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid.”
—John Fowles (b. 1926)