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:
“Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other’s nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The so called white races are really pinko-grey.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)