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Quigley & Aliyu Win Frigid Midnight Run
Posted January 1st, 2009 at 8:11 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Road Racing
Despite bitterly cold temperatures and strong winds, some 5000 people ran in the New Year at the 30th annual Emerald Nuts Midnight Run, a four mile road race in Central Park accompanied by a spectacular fireworks display.
Leading all finishers was former LaSalle University star Sean Quigley [Pictured] of Philadelphia. Representing Puma, the 23 year-old covered the hilly, and at some points icy, course in 18 minutes and 45 seconds, eight seconds ahead of runner-up Brian Olinger, the former Ohio State steeplechaser from Columbus who now represents Reebok. The Westchester Track Club’s Abiyot Endale of Ethiopia was third in 18:59. Seven men broke 20 minutes.
The women’s race came down to a sprint finish on the Park’s 72nd Street Transverse. Aziza Aliyu, a 23 year-old Ethiopian who lives in the Bronx, spurted away from 24 year-old Emily Brown of Minneapolis, Minn., in the final ten meters to win by one second in 21:21. Aliyu’s Westchester Track Club teammate, Buzunesh Deba, got third in 22:05.
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Course Records for Carlson and Douma-Hussar at Midnight Run in NYC
Posted January 1st, 2008 at 11:30 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results
Andrew Carlson and Carmen Douma-Hussar made their first appearances at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run memorable, shattering the event’s course records in their respective divsions.
Leading a field of about 5000 athletes at the stroke of midnight, Carlson, 25, who runs for Team USA Minnesota/adidas, scorched the hilly four mile course in 18 minutes and 12 seconds, well under Christian Hesch’s event record of 18:28 set in 2004. Well behind was Macharia Yuot of Philadelphia in second place (18:33), and Demesse Tefera of Ethiopia and the Westchester Track Club in third (18:35). The first eight men broke 19 minutes, a record for this race.
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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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Countdown to 2008 at the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in Central Park on December 31
Posted December 18th, 2007 at 2:17 PM by Martin Kennedy
Section: News & Results
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 December 31 in Central Park, it was announced today 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.
A Central Park tradition since 1979, the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run is a fun, healthy way to start the new year and an inexpensive option for New Yorkers looking to celebrate the holiday without fighting the crowds in Times Square. For the first time ever in New York, the final 10-second countdown to midnight will have an extra boom: Fireworks by Grucci will produce a special display to conclude 2007.
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