AUGUST 2008 RUNNING


Fri, Aug 1, noon

Sat, Aug 2, 6:00am

Sat, Aug 2, 5:30pm

Sun, Aug 3, 6:30am

Tues, Aug 5, 11:30am

Fri, Aug 8, 3:30pm

Sat, Aug 9, noon

Sun, Aug 10, 6:30am

Tues, Aug 12, 6:30am

Wed, Aug 13, 11:30pm

Fri, Aug 15, 1:00am

Fri, Aug 15, 8:00am

Sat, Aug 16, 6:00am

Sun, Aug 17, 1:00am

Sun, Aug 17, 6:30am

Tues, Aug 19, 1:00am

Tues, Aug 19, 8:30am

Thurs, Aug 21, 6:30am

Thurs, Aug 21, 11:30am

Sat, Aug 23, 6:00am

Sat, Aug 23, noon

Sun, Aug 24, 6:30am

Tues, Aug 26, 1:00am

Tues, Aug 26, 8:30am

Fri, Aug 29, 11:30am

 

Highlights for  AUGUST, 2008 include:

 

  • Twelve thousand take on the City in the NYC Half-Marathon presented by Nike, the latest in New York Road Runners Professional Racing Series.
  • The Manhattan Island Foundation sends off a select field in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, presented by RCN. A twenty-nine mile sea level adventure.
  • The running bond is strengthened in the Park to Park with a two race series…one in Naples and one in Central Park…staged by the Napoli Road Runners and New York Road Runners.
  • Mt. Washington in New Hampshire is the highest peak in the northeast. Why stage a race?  Because it’s there.
  • The Manhattan Island Foundation gets more land lovers into the river in the Aquathlon: Stars & Stripes, a one mile swim followed by a three mile run.
  • A Michelob Ultra Geat Moment in Racing. 1998.  The Goodwill Games Five Miler on the FDR with a classic road racing sprint to the finish.
  • The Nautica New York City Triathlon. You swim, you bike, you run, then you are done. Easy for you to say.

 

For more information on RUNNING contact Salmini Films at 201-944-5572.