This June, Running the Sahara’s Charlie Engle and Marshall Ulrich are going to set off on their record-breaking run from San Francisco to New York. Their journey will be filmed and crafted into a historical documentary entitled Running America. NEHST is currently casting runners to join these athletes as they make history and raise money toward the water crisis in Africa.
If casted, you are only allowed to run one mile with Charlie and Marshall, but you can drop back and continue to run if you’d like. Anyone is eligible for submissions, no matter how young, old, disabled or experienced you may be. This is a great opportunity to be in front of cameras, meet some celebrities and be a part of history. 
To register for your chance to be a part of history, visit screentest.biz.
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At the inaugural Central Park Challenge here today, which incorporated the U.S. Men’s 8-K Championship, Jorge Torres (Pictured) and Shalane Flanagan won their respective races convincingly. But the paths taken to their titles were completely different.
In the men’s race, all eyes were on U.S. mile record holder, Alan Webb, running in only his fourth professional road race and his first race of 2008. Webb was on the lead with Christian Hesch at the first mile (4:36), and was right behind Andrew Carlson at the two mile mark (9:05). Carlson began to push the pace in the third mile (13:37), but Webb and Christian Hesch surged through the 5-K mark (14:10) where primes were awarded for the top-3 men (Webb was first with Hesch just behind).
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Building on a strong, second-place performance at the USA Cross Country Championship, Jorge Torres outlasted Andrew Carlson to win today’s USA 8K Championship in Central Park.
Torres earned the 8K national title with a time of 22:41.2, finishing 0.7 seconds ahead of Team USA Minnesota’s Andrew Carlson (22:41.9). Jason Hartmann (22:48), James Carney (22:52.5), and Fasil Bizuneh (23:02.1) completed the top five.
Alan Webb (23:31.3) finished a disappointing 16th in what was only his fourth professional road race and 2008 racing debut. However, David Monti reports that Webb was sick on Thursday night, probably the result of food poisoning. He and his coach, Scott Raczko, considered scratching him from the race, but Alan decided to start. There is little doubt that it affected his performance today.
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At today’s Central Park Challenge in New York City, Shalane Flanagan continued her early season dominance and won the Women’s Invitational 8K in 25:40.
Katie McGregor finished second in 25:56 and Molly Huddle rounded out the top three (26:07).
Official Results (Top 10 Finishers):
1) Shalane Flanagan - 25:39.7
2) Katie McGrego - 25:55.7
3) Molly Huddle - 26:06.1
4) Amy Rudolph- 26:24.3
5) Carmen Douma-Hussar - 26:27.7
6) Erin Donohue - 26:28.0
7) Firehiwot Tesfaye - 26:31.9
8) Liliya Shobukhova - 26:33.6
9) Aziza Aliyu - 26:43.6
10) Julia Lucas - 26:45.2
Weather.com is forecasting cloudy skies, temperatures around 43 degrees Fahrenheit, and 15mph winds for this morning’s 9am start time of the Central Park Challenge in New York City.
Hosted by the New York Road Runners (NYRR’s), the event includes the U.S. Men’s 8k Championship and a separate Invitational Women’s Race.
The top entrants in the men’s national championship are Alan Webb, who will be making his season debut, Jorge Torres, James Carney, Andrew Carlson, and Fasil Bizuneh. Shalane Flanagan comes in as the favorite for the women’s contest, but will face challenges from notables such as Team USA Minnesota’s Katie McGregor and Carrie Tollefson.
A total prize purse of $70,000 will be on the line, with $10,000 going to each race winner.
2005 8 km champion Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colo.) and American Record holder for the mile Alan Webb [Pictured] (Reston, Va.) lead the field for the USA Men’s 8 km Championship in New York’s Central Park this Saturday. This year’s championships, hosted by the New York Road Runners (NYRR) as part of the Central Park Challenge, will see a field of more than 50 U.S. men.
Torres, the 2006 champion at 10,000 meters, will use the 8 km as a final tune-up for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships two weeks later in Edinburgh, Scotland. While Webb will use his second “serious” road-race longer than a mile as he finalizes his base training phase in preparation to make the U.S. Olympic squad for 1,500 meters in Beijing this August.
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A foot injury has forced Dathan Ritzenhein out of Saturday’s Central Park Challenge, incorporating the U.S. Men’s 8-K Championship, the New York Road Runners announced.
Ritzenhein, the 25 year-old who placed second at last year’s Olympic Trials marathon in Central Park, is no doubt disappointed that he cannot race Alan Webb, one of the few opportunities he would have to face the U.S. mile record-holder in a road race. The injury, to the third metatarsal on his left foot, warrants extra caution, given that this is an Olympic year.
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The New York Road Runners are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and the group of about 40 runners who founded the organization dedicated to improving the world through running and walking back in 1958 could never have imagined how it would have grown. The nonprofit NYRR now has 45,000 members, and last year 309,003 runners signed up for their year-round calendar of 62 events. 230,702 athletes of all ages and abilities finished their races.
By far their biggest event was the ING New York City Marathon. Over 100,000 runners requested entry, but only about half that number were accepted through a system of lotteries, guaranteed entries based on performance and participation in other NYRR races, charity groups, and international tour groups. Through the normal process of attrition, entries dwindled to around 40,000 by race week, and 38,607 actually finished the 42.195 km event from Staten Island to Manhattan. That made it the largest standard marathon in history.
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Nearly 500 people filled Blessed Sacrament Church here this morning to bid their final goodbyes to Victor J. Navarra, the retired New York City Fire Department lieutenant who served as the start coordinator for the ING New York City Marathon for 25 years. Navarra died last Monday at the age of 55, having suffered for more than two years with sinus cancer.
In a life which was defined by service to others, Navarra was remembered for his roles as a family man and neighbor, a firefighter, and an event organizer. He joined the New York City Fire Department in 1977, rising to the rank of lieutenant, and serving 21 years for the department’s Ladder Company 35 in Manhattan.
“The word ‘dedicated’ didn’t even begin to describe Vic Navarra,” a fire department official said during the eulogy portion of Navarra’s funeral. “We have no better ambassador than Vic Navarra to show what this department is all about.”
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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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Hendrick Ramaala led through 16 miles in a time of 1:19:59. His last mile was 5:06.
Suddenly the pack of 15 men was down to 4 men:
Hendrick Ramaala, Rodgers Rop, Martin Lel and Abderrahim Goumri (Morocco ) who was making his NYC Marathon debut.
Lance Armstrong passed the 20k mark in 1:19:27, a pace of 6:23 per […]
After 35k, Jelena Prokopcuka decided that enough was enough. She has made a move and broken away from Grigoryeva and Ndereba. Her 8 second lead is growing.
However, the leaders are too far out reach and now trails Radcliffe and Wami by almost four minutes.
Radcliffe has begun to press forward and opened a slight lead […]
Here’s a Lance Armstrong report at 15k:
Time: 59:54
Pace: 6:25
Behind leaders: +13:41
Dmytro Baranovsky (Ukraine ) was back with the lead pack and took thew men through 13 miles in 1:05:13. The last mile was 5:15.
With the slowish pace, the halfway mark had a lead pack of 17 men:
1 5 ROP, RODGERS KEN 1:05:45 +0:00 5:00
2 […]
After entering First Avenue - one of the loudest and most supportive sections of the marathon course - Radcliffe continues to lead with Wami literally “in her back pocket”. Historically, many runners have chosen the turn onto First Avenue as the moment to make a move.
However, Radcliffe has decided against it; maintaining […]
Julius Kibet led the men through 10 miles in a time of 49:35. Mile 9 was run in a time of 4:56.
Rodgers Rop led at 11 miles, which the lead pack passed in 54:50. Mile 11 was run in a time of 5:15. The men were on track for a sub 2:11 marathon.
Elias Kemboi led […]
Catherine Ndereba, the 2007 World marathon Champion, really struggled with the Queensborugh Bridge and has fallen behind Prokopcuka and Grigoryeva as a result. If anyone has the power and ability to come back it’s Catherine “The Great”, but she can not allow herself to fall much farther behind.
At the front of the race, Radcliffe […]
Here’s a quick report of Lance Armstrong through 5k:
ARMSTRONG, LANCE USA / TX 0:20:01 +4:14 6:26
Apparently Hendrick Ramaala was planning on doing what Paula Radcliffe was doing in the women’s race – leading from wire to wire. He took the men through 7 miles in a time of 34:52. Mile 7 was a sizzling 4:27. […]
The women have now reached the half-way mark (1:10:47). However, they have slowed a bit; running the 13th mile run in 5:27.
The only way Wami can pull ahead of Prokopcuka in the World Marathon majors standings is to win the race, otherwise Prokopcuka will win the $500,000. Therefore, if she can not catch […]
In sports - especially endurance events like marathon running - we have all seen thrilling and seemingly impossible come-from-behind victories.
Although anything is possible and the race is far from over, the other favorites may already be too far behind to have a shot at this year title. After 20k (12.4 miles), Radcliffe and […]
Dmytro Baranovsky (Ukraine), making his NYC Marathon debut, led the men through 4 miles with a time of 20:18. Mile 4 was run in 5:04 and they were on track for a 2:13:03 marathon. A number of championship-quality men were running in the lead pack of about 20 runners. There were no pace-setters today. Hendrick […]
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