Hometown Pride at Inaugural Brooklyn Marathon
Nearly 400 runners amassed in Prospect Park for the first Brooklyn Marathon since 1909.
Update: John Paul Montes, 24, of Carroll Gardens, won the marathon, with a time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, according to NY1. Kelly Gillen, 29, of Manhattan was the female winner, finishing in 3 hours, 14 minutes. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, while much of Brooklyn was still sleeping, the borough's hardcore runners were awake, preparing for a marathon in their territory. "This is my turf!" said first-time marathoner and Park Slope resident Mary Audia. "I run here every weekend." Or, as Paul Nelson of the Prospect Park Alliance put it: "It's Brooklyn! You get to sleep in your own bed!" The inaugural Brooklyn Marathon, held in Prospect Park and organized by Steve Lastoe of NYCruns.com, had nearly 400 runners registered. And though …
Chicken Underwear
6:50 am on Monday, November 21, 2011
actually it made 2 loops of the lake and then 6 loops of the entire park follows by a loop of the lake again. more ›