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Lead Stories: Saturday, November 22, 2008

Douma-Hussar, Slattery to Celebrate the Countdown to 2008 at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in Central Park

Posted December 30th, 2007 at 2:00 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Road Racing

Canadian Olympian Carmen Douma-Hussar, Americans Steve and Sara Slattery and defending champions Thomas Morgan and Aziza Aliyu lead a competitive professional field that will ring in the New Year at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run on Monday, December 31 in Central Park, it was announced by New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg.

As a special companion to this year’s event, more than 200 service members stationed in Al Asad, Iraq, will run their own version of the Midnight Run at the stroke of midnight - an eight-hour time difference from New York. This is the first time NYRR has staged this race outside New York. The idea came from Staff Sergeant Jacqueline Caputi of San Diego, who ran in the Midnight Run in 2000 when she lived in Brooklyn and saw it as one of the best ways to start the New Year “with new shoes and fresh soles” underneath her.
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