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:
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy—common clay, if you like—eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can’t imagine dead. And then there are the others—the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
“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)
“This Administration has declared unconditional war on poverty and I have come here this morning to ask all of you to enlist as volunteers. Members of all parties are welcome to our tent. Members of all races ought to be there. Members of all religions should come and help us now to strike the hammer of truth against the anvil of public opinion again and again until the ears of this Nation are open, until the hearts of this Nation are touched, and until the conscience of America is awakened.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)