It wasn’t Monday, but we donned our medals for portraits at Der Pioneer following the Friday morning SEC run. Here are some of our 2024 New York City Marathoners and a little bit about what they had to say about their races.
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In a city known for its marathon and its fashion, let’s take a look at what PPTC wore this season at the New York City Marathon.
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Throughout this year’s month of April, we collected poems from PPTC members that discuss both life and running. They are composed in a variety of structures, but each possess beauty and wisdom.
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Last Monday, the 128th Boston Marathon was held. With most of the participants gaining entry by meeting time qualifications and time cut-offs, the race probably has the fastest average finishing times. But this is not a call for speed in that way. My call for speed is for everyone to do a little bit of speedwork, even if, like me, you are not even remotely close to finishing a marathon under a Boston Marathon qualifying time.
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Each element the club offers is thanks to a collection of people offering their time and work freely. It’s astounding. PPTC, a running club of over 2,000 members, operates (fairly) smoothly thanks to volunteers. A system built this way should be defunct, but yet it’s operable.
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My goal is to be able to maintain my usual base pace with a much lower heart rate. Maybe the result will be faster times in races, but my real reason is that I don’t want to ask my heart to work so hard.
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Happy Black History Month! PPTC held its second annual Black History Month Run on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Like last year, it was also a no-drop run, with pacers available so that no runner would be left behind. This was apropos, since Black History Month is about being inclusive of all people, by celebrating the contributions of people of the African diaspora to the United States.
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I also garnered a new definition of love thanks to bell hooks’ reflection on an M. Scott Peck quote, “Love as ‘the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.’” If you find this to be true as I did, you can certainly apply this to running and general movement. I think for many, running is a part of spirituality.
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My book is about those hidden costs and the psychic and social effects of those costs. My hope is that by having an honest conversation about some of these pressures, we can confront some of the things that are really stigmatized in our society, like mental illness, things that we internalize as failures, and we can begin to talk about trauma in a more compassionate way that enables us to deal with it.
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I wanted to reconnect to running. I had joined cross country in middle school and had been pretty casual about running. I always knew I liked something about it, the time to myself, the ability to be present, the opportunity to have a clear mind, maybe. I was never the fastest runner, and I knew that, but running was always something I could do for myself.
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On July 10th, PPTC hit a milestone with our 2000th member! Some people in the club were watching intently and waiting for us to reach 2000 members. With a few clicks on a keyboard, Brian Hansen (he/him) became PPTC’s 2000th member. If you’ve been a member for a while, then you may remember that we hit 1000 members only a few years ago in February 2020. Did Brian know that he could be member #2000?
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You may have seen the words "Join Discord!" flying around for the last couple years. You are once again faced with the cheery beckoning of the instruction-to join Discord. We’re here to break down discord for anyone new to the platform or who gets cold feet when thinking about posting.
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We have the last ice age to blame—or thank, if yours is a generous spirit—for the hills of Brooklyn. Through the Pleistocene Epoch, continental ice sheets expanded and retreated dozens of times, carrying and smoothing rocks and eventually depositing them miles from where they had been picked up. The Laurentide ice sheet, which covered much of Canada and the northern United States, reached its greatest extent in the most recent glacial period about 20,000 years ago. Its southernmost boundary crossed Brooklyn.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023 marks the beginning of 2023’s Marathon Training Group (MTG). Coached by John Honerkamp and free to PPTC members, the group prepares you for success in distance running.
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April was Volunteer Appreciation Month and while this post comes a little late for Volunteer Appreciation Month, we always appreciate our volunteers. Volunteers help make PPTC what it is. With Volunteer Appreciation Month just behind us and volunteer opportunities for PPTC’s Al Goldstein Speed Series opening soon, we are turning the spotlight on two members who are dedicated volunteers and often volunteering at PPTC’s Al Goldstein Speed Series.
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Last year, Crystal became club president, the first Asian American to hold the position, and the fourth woman to serve as PPTC president. Since her inauguration, Crystal has led the club with kindness, thoughtfulness, and strength.
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