2024 Course Preview and Other Updates!
With Labor Day now in the rearview mirror, we're now less than three weeks to Paine to Pain! It’s update time! Please. Read. To. The. End!
New date for this year. Please remember that we changed the date of the race for this year only due to holiday conflicts. Race date is September 29.
No in-person registration. Online only!! Don’t show up unregistered with a lame-ass excuse and expect a bib. Tell your procrastinating friends not to delay. Resister here now.
The Paine to Pain Preview is Sunday, September 22, at 8 a.m. Come join NewRo Runners for a course check. You don’t have to be signed up for the race to participate. There are no fees. Do a short version or the full monty. The run is self-supported, and running guides will lead various pace groups. (If you want to guide a group, let us know!) In order to accommodate shorter runs, the race will not start at the P2P start line. Details are here.
Free photos! You read that right, we’ll once again have professional photographers on the course and then we’ll give you those high-res digital photos for nothin’. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch. More free!!! Woo hoo!!! We'll try to catch you covered in mud if we're lucky enough to get rain.
We are again planning 5 waves. Why? We want you to run your best race, and not get stuck in traffic on single-track. While overall 1-2-3 is based on gun-time off the first musket shot, everything else is chip-time. No need to crowd!
Ultra runners: Are you interested in running 26.2 on race day? If you’d like to do a “warm up lap” before the race, shoot us an email. (The warm-up lap is not a race, not timed, unsupported and will still be dark when you first set off. These are features, not bugs. The bugs are on the trail.)
Volunteer sign-up is well underway! As every runner knows, races don’t happen without volunteers. Period. If you aren’t running, we need you! Sign up online here!
Also, we welcome back Westchester Road Runner of White Plains as a sponsor of this race for the 16th consecutive year! Bib pick-up will start there Friday before the race, from 5–8 p.m., and we'll have some P2P merch for sale.
And if your injuries on race day are more hardcore than muscle fatigue – and let’s hope that isn’t the case – Empress EMS will be out there on the course again at the three aid stations and Montefiore New Rochelle will be waiting for you with open arms at the finish line medical tent!
We’re lining up food and other sponsors as we type!! We’re excited!! And when I say “we” I mean me! But I hope it’s you too!
Race day is my favorite day! That's why I use so many exclamation marks!!!
(... OK, my favorite day after my anniversary. And wife and kids’ birthdays. I’m required by law to say this. Hi honey! Did you get to the bottom of this long email I just sent to several thousand of my nearest and dearest?)
Eric Turkewitz
Race Director and Grand Poobah