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Registration for the NYRR Brooklyn Half opens Monday, March 26 at 12:00 PM. NYRR expects the event to sell out quickly.

This year's Brooklyn Half will start outside of Prospect Park on Washington Ave near the Brooklyn Museum. NYRR is doing this so that more runners may participate in the half. There will be 15,000 runners participating in this year's Brooklyn Half. That's as many as the NYC Half.

http://nyrr.org/run-with-us/brooklyn-half-marathon

Arlington, VA - Since 1996, the Road Runners Club of America has awarded stipends through its Roads Scholar program to assist American post-collegiate road runners who show great promise to develop into national and world class road running athletes.

The Roads Scholar program has distributed over $330,000 to emerging American distance runners since the programs inception. Grants in the amount of $5,000.00 per year have been awarded to four to six athletes annually since the program’s inception. The driving factor in the creation of this program was the goal of improving the state of long distance running in the United States.

The RRCA is now accepting applications for our 2011-2012 Roads Scholar class. The deadline for applying is April 30, 2011.  More information about the program along with the application can be found on-line at http://www.rrca.org/programs/roads-scholars/.

The program is directed towards runners who:

• Are US citizens;
• Have recently graduated from college;
• Plan to pursue elite distance running as a career;
• Expect to earn less than $30,000 from all sources during the calendar year.

The program is 100% supported by contributions from events, clubs, and individual donors.  Learn more about supporting this program.

We didn't get a white Christmas this year. Instead we got a blizzard the day after Christmas! Even with the snow and wind, there were runners in East River Park. It was a great site to see runners braving the harsh winter conditions to get heir run in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The goal of the RRCA Championship Events is to shine a spotlight on well-run events and to award top performing runners in the open, masters and grand masters categories for both men and women.

Since 1958, the RRCA has awarded championship events through a competitive bidding process at the National, Regional, and State level to RRCA member clubs and events to promote the sport of distance running.

Upcoming National Championships

Azalea Trail Run

Mobile, AL - March 26, 2011

Presidio 10

San Francisco, CA - April 17, 2011

Marine Corps Historic Half

Fredericksburg, VA - May 15, 2011

Tahoe Rim Trail 100 Endurance Run

Spooner Lake, NV - July 16, 2011

Woodstock 5K

Woodstock, AL - August 06, 2011

Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon

Milwaukee, WI - October 02, 2011

Tomorrow is the ING NYC Marathon - the biggest running event on the planet. I am very proud to announce that East River Park Track Club has two runners participating in the marathon. They are John Hyon and Sandra Yu. John and Sandra are the first two ERPTC members to run in the NYC Marathon. Sandra is running also for a charity - Team for Kids  John is running his eighth marathon and second marathon this year. This past summer John had run the San Francisco Marathon in 3:19:30. Best of luck to John and Sandra tomorrow!

In the first year of ERPTC the club's members have run or will run in eight different marathons: Boston Marathon, New Jersey Marathon, San Francisco Marathon, Marine Corps.Marathon, Nike Women's Marathon SF, NYC Marathon, Philadelphia Marathon, and the Las Vegas Marathon. That's great start!


Thank you to all of the members that had participated in the marathons this year. Let's keep up the great running!

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Ken Costantino
President
East River Park Track Club