WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!

Adam Arment, Matthew Santamaria, Grace Geoghan, Astrid Merolle, Bill Eickelberg

Men's winner, Scott Bickard

A message from your race director:

Thanks to all runners and volunteers who made our 2023 race a success, and thank you for allowing me to serve you as Race Director Pandemic issues prevented us from holding this event in 2022 and 2020 so we were thankful to be able to get back to the roads of Kings Park on March 18th

We had a much smaller field this year with 220 finishers

Regretfully we had to change the race date to the 18th, the same weekend as the NYC Half, after having initially scheduled it for the 25th We are implementing processes to prevent that from happening in the future

Although rain was initially in the forecast, we ended up with a chilly and somewhat windy morning without precipitation

Feedback was positive on the course, our volunteer support, the ‘athletic green’ race sweatshirt, our new ‘pub glass’ awards, and our post-race snacks and beverages Thank you to everyone who took time to complete the post-race survey! A few additional details:

We did our best to order a variety of sweatshirt sizes, but we ran out of mediums We will be guided accordingly with future orders. We will also order a few more in the XXL size It is difficult with so many runners signing up during the week or two before an event, as our orders have to be placed earlier

We will order more post-race bananas We are seeking quality gluten-free items to have post-race. We will also try and keep the canned beverages cold, and add hot beverages if possible

We will add a second portable toilet at another spot on the course (we only had one at mile 4)

We will add a water stop somewhere before mile 4

Look forward to seeing you on the roads and at future races!