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:
“The so called white races are really pinko-grey.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,—the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. Cholera, “some.” [At] Planters’ Hotel. Mem:—Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)