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Lead Stories: Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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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