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The Fifth Avenue Mile is an annual 1 mile (1.6 km) road race on Fifth Avenue in New York City, United States. The race begins at 80th Street and heads twenty blocks south to 60th Street. First held on September 26, 1981, [1] the race is currently organized by New York Road Runners. The competition regularly attracts world-class runners, who ...
New York Road Runners (NYRR) is a non-profit running organization based in New York City whose mission is to help and inspire people through running. It was founded in 1958 by Ted Corbitt with 47 members and has since grown to a membership of more than 60,000. As of 2012, it was considered to be the premier running organization in the United ...
The Corporate Challenge was founded in 1977 by Manufacturers Hanover with a single race in New York City, with 200 runners from 50 companies. It has since grown to include 13 races in seven countries on five continents, with total participation in 2017 of 248,937 entrants from 7,334 companies.
10 a.m. Oct. 27 — Run for the Hills 5K Trail Race, Community Harvest Project Orchard, 115 Prospect St., Harvard (kids' fun run at 10:50). Registration: 8 a.m. Entry fees: $30 through Sept. 30 ...
Today in New York (displayed on-air as "Today in NY") is a local morning news and entertainment television program airing on WNBC, an NBC owned-and-operated television station in New York City. The program is broadcast each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. Eastern Time , immediately preceding NBC's Today .
On October 8, 2014, United Airlines, which was the sponsor of many of the NYRR races, became the title sponsor of the NYC Half Marathon. [15] The 2020 and 2021 races were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] All registrants were given the option of obtaining a full refund or guaranteed, non-complimentary entry to the March 2022 race. [4 ...
It is a charity event to fund Bike New York's education programs. Conducted on the first Sunday of May, the 40-mile (64 km) ride has over 32,000 riders. The route takes riders through all five of New York's boroughs and across five major bridges. The entire route, including bridges and expressways which normally prohibit cyclists, is closed to ...
Michael Ring is preparing to toe the line at Sunday's TCS New York City Marathon, a 26.2-mile course he knows all too well but takes him twice as long to run.