Coach Cane

06/16/2025

Starting with the 2027 qualifying window, the BAA will add on time to races with at least 1,500 feet of net-elevation drop between start and finish.

02/27/2025

11/05/2024

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a62810736/matt-choi-dq-nyc-marathon

Matt Choi, who has a large following on social media, is barred from competing in future New York Road Runner events.

10/17/2024

Athletes were participating in the first of four days of world championship events.

09/16/2024

Makes sense

07/17/2024

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you are cheating on Strava, seek help.

Users of the Strava exercise app are making a quick buck selling their running and cycling accomplishments to clients with more money than time. Legal issues could arise if false data is used to gain monetary benefits, a lawyer says.

06/22/2024

Once upon a time we used to ride a century in Prospect Park every year on the Summer Solstice.

Though it has been one of my favorite rides of the year since its inception in 2006, I've decided to put the annual No Sleep 'til Brooklyn Prospect Park century out to pasture. We had a lot of fun with the event, which included 30 mind-numbing but fun laps of the park. We managed to get the ride in

05/13/2024

An amazing update to Buzu’s story.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/boston-marathon-winner-prize-money-8f51452f

Buzunesh Deba had waited nearly eight years for the $100,000 that was owed to her after the original winner was disqualified for doping. When race organizers wouldn’t pay up, a businessman wrote her a check instead.

04/17/2024

Please share.

Buzunesh Deba, who lives in the Bronx, became the default winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon in 2016 when the first-place winner was disqualified for doping, but she says she has not yet received her prize money.

04/10/2024

From our friend and athlete, Ross McGraw

Balancing life as a globally competitive triathlete with a media career and a new addition to the family was as exhilarating as it was challenging. This juggling act honed my skills in time management and prioritisation, laying the groundwork for my venture into the startup world.

04/03/2024

I am far from an NYRR apologist most of the time, but this is ridiculous.

If New York Road Runners doesn’t pay up, the transit agency is threatening to restrict use of the bridge, potentially reducing the number of runners who can compete in the wildly popular even…

01/18/2024

Our friends at NEW YORK TRIATHLON are celebrating their 40th anniversary of hosting races, and it (predictably) got me feeling nostalgic. ⁠
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Pictured above is Christopher Bergland winning the Brooklyn Biathlon, circa 1990. It was his first multisport race, and to this day, one of my proudest moments as a coach. Back then it was a 3.36 mile run in Prospect Park, a 20 mile ride along Ocean Parkway and the Belt Parkway, and a second 3.36 mile run. Christopher and another racer were neck-and-neck for the first run and the ride, and then Christopher pulled away on the second run. Afterward he said he remembered me telling him that one day he would race his physical equal and the win would go to the racer who was willing to suffer more. Considering that Christopher went on to win a *triple* ironman distance race, run 153.76 miles in 24 hours on a treadmill, and finish top-5 at the 135-mile Badwater Ultra, I think it's clear Christopher was not afraid of a little suffering. ⁠
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The Brooklyn Bi - now finally known as a duathlon (because that's what it is) was also my first race back in 1988. More importantly City Coach athletes including Ross McGraw, Amy May, Nicole Falcaro, and Nicole Sin Quee all won Brooklyn throughout the years, and Jeannine Bardo, Leanne Elisha, Edie Perkins, Jessica Purcell Zebrak, Brian Sica, Emily Kindlon, Yvonne Kingon, Nathanael Horne, Johanna Bjorken, and more made it to the podium there. ⁠
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Who else has raced Brooklyn?⁠
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