New York City Endurance Seminars: Running

Date: Sept 12th from 9-4
Price: $150
Location: Crossfit NYC

more details and signup here

Everyone had impressive improvement with their running form during the seminar on Saturday.

back row (l to r) Adam, Aney, Lindsay, Brian front row (l to r) Max, Allison

Analyzing Allison's form

Great Race by all who battled the summer heat last night in Van Cortlandt Park.

A tough hilly 5k cross country course with the easiest and cheapest registration process around.

Congratulations to Lisa for placing 2nd in her age group, Ricky and Jai glad to hear you made it there on time.  Awesome showing by Avery and Christine beating there time from two weeks ago.  Mike making an awesome first appearance.

ok so waaaaay back in Dec a bunch of us signed up for Warrior Dash for the 11am heat.

If you are still coming or would like to join us please reply below so we can work out rides.

the list I have:

• Me (Tim B)
• Harkins
• Jai?
• Josh R?
• Jacinto?
• Kirk
• Jeff B
• Scott
• KJ?
• Emerson
• Anthony
• Lisa
• Steph

We have scheduled another Running Seminar for Aug 14th at Crossfit NYC from 9-4.

Click here for more details and to sign up.

Max Rep Bench Bench, 5k Run

Full Details here

Date
Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 12:00 PM local time

Address
Pier A, Hoboken
Pier A, Hoboken Waterfront

Registration Closing Date
Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 11:59 PM

Rules

• A runner’s time will be based on how many times he/she can bench press the weight for their gender and age category.
• There are four lifting divisions.
• Runners not competing for prize money, may scale their weight.

Men 39 and Under – Contestants will bench press 135 lbs

Men 40 and Over – Contestants will bench press 115 lbs

Women 39 and Under – Contestants will bench press 85 lbs

Women 40 and Over – Contestants will bench press 55 lbs
Time Deduction

30 seconds per rep will be deducted from the competitor’s final 5k time for the Pump and Run Division. The maximum deduction is 15 minutes (or 30 total reps)
Lifting Technique

Lift starts with the bar in the extended position. Feet must remain in contact with the floor throughout the lift (no hooking bench support with feet/legs). Bar must touch the chest and be fully extended on each press – stopping terminates the lift. No bouncing bar off chest. Shoulder and rear must stay in contact with the bench during lifts. If necessary, plates may be placed under lifters’ feet. No baggy clothing, belts, wraps or lifting suits. Decisions of our judges are final.

Lifting Time
Participants will begin by completing their max rep bench press. Registration and Bench Press will begin at Noon. Race will commence after all racers have completed their lift (approximately 1:00pm)

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More info here

Looking for volunteers to help with the Achillies Track Club’s 5 mile race on Sunday June 27th. Achillies Track club is a running club for disabled athletes. It is an amazing day seeing these athletes overcome their disability and push themselves to do things that other people and doctors told them they would never be able to do. Achillies also sponsors a number of wounded veterans and pays for them to come to NY for the weekend and participate in this great event. These wounded veterans are part of the Freedom Team. please check out Achillies web site:
http://www.achillesinternational.org/

please let me know if you can help out, we need to people to assist the athletes as well as many other positions: beharkins at gmail dot com Hopefully you you will be able to work with one of these athletes and learn what happened.

I met a medic in the US Army, who was injured in Iraq, he treated his entire team after they were hit by an IED. He saved all their lives, then treated himself as well as fending off other attackers.

This story is just one of many.
Thank you

-B

I would like to announce a new race being put on by NJ Trail Series in Jefferson Township NJ on Saturday Aug 14, 2010.

The course designed by Nathan Echols will be a 12.5K loop and here is a quick description: Start the run on double wide trail (similar to an old fire road)  or over 1/2 mile to thin the pack. Then it gets a little rocky with a few wetter spots (NO stream crossings). It then alternates between single and double track until 3.8 miles. From there for the next 2.2 miles you are on a rail trail (aid station half way through the rail trail). You then transition back to the alternating single and double track going over rolling hills up over the highest point in Morris County then back to the Start Finish. The trail down from the Highest Point is groomed quite nicely and very runnable. Overall no huge hills and very runnable.

Registration is open here

Race starts at 6:00 am.  No runner will start a loop after 6:00pm The exact Location of the trail is the Mahlon Dickerson Reservation, a Morris County Park and it has RV, camping and Lean to’s. I hope you can come out and enjoy the beautiful trails of Northern NJ.

The summer series of 5K cross country races in Van Cortlandt Park has been announced. These are scheduled for 7:00 PM on alternate Thursday evenings.

The first one is this Thursday, May 27th. Meet at the Tortoise and Hare statue about 1/4 mile north of the 242nd Street #1 train station. Pay $5 on the spot and you’re in. To make it on time, you should try for a #1 train leaving Times Square by 6:00 PM.

Here’s the web site (with some results from last year):
http://vctconline.ning.com/page/xc-summer-series-2