Please arrive 10-15 minutes early so that we can start promptly.
All runners are invited to join us, whether you’re signed up for the race or not, and whether you want to run the full monty or just a section (see below).
This is not a race, but simply a guided running tour of the P2P course, which NewRo Runners does as one of our regular weekend group runs.
We usually get 50-75 people and we usually have about 10 trail leaders since there are no flags on the course. If you know the course and can lead, please email me privately.
We will have multiple groups – which we coyly designate as fast, medium and slow, because tall, grande and venti didn’t seem right. The groupings will generally (and very loosely) be:
- Fastest – Training for 3:30 marathon or faster (or 1:40 ½-marathon)
- Medium – Training for 3:30 – 4:15 marathon (or 1:40 – 2:10 ½-marathon)
- Slower – Training for 4:15-5:00 hour marathon (All runners should be capable of running a 2:30 half marathon on the street – please, no walkers.)
Distancing between groups of runners will happen naturally as speedier runners take flight. Leaders will pause at major junctions so others in their groups can catch up.
There are no fees, no services, and you don’t have to be a member of NewRo Runners to join us. We do this once a year as one of our weekly group runs, and invite others to join us so we can show you our little runners’ playground.
Just send me an email, tweet (@PaineToPain), Instagram message (@PaineToPain) or mention on our Facebook page, so that I have a sense of how big our crowd will be, and let me know which group you think you might run with. You can always change groups on the spot, or mid-run if you don’t like the teeny, tiny, tiger-striped shorts of the guy in front of you.
Important!! We do not meet at the starting line for P2P! We start, instead, at the trailhead for the Leatherstocking Trail. This is at the corner of Pinebrook Boulevard and Hillside Crescent in New Rochelle. (See map) There is parking available on Hillside Crescent.
There is one water fountain along the way, inside the Saxon Woods Golf Club, which has bathrooms as well, and is at the 6.8-ish-mile mark.
Your options are:
- 5.6 miles — Out and back on the Leatherstocking trail, which is marked.
- 10 miles — Stay with the group through Saxon Woods until we head south down the Hutchinson River Trail (after passing the golf course) and then bail out on Pinebrook Boulevard at mile 8-ish. This is the same street we started on, but two miles to the north. Then just run on Pinebrook (going left) back to the start. There are no turns to make after leaving the group.
- 13+ —The full monty. As an extra bonus, instead of running the Broadview hill at the start of the race, you get to run it at the end when you are tired.
Please let me know if you will be able to join us.
Eric @ PaineToPain.com