Hitting the Streets of NYC

Team Hope For The Warriors® will be hitting the streets of NYC again just three months after we rocked the ING NYC Marathon on November 6, 2011.  Twenty-five Team jerseys will be sported among the 15,000+ runners on St. Patrick’s Day weekend in the Big Apple for the NYC Half Marathon.  Up from last year’s seventeen Team runners, our twenty-five Team registration filled in record time!  

NYC Half participants will be taken on a tour of Manhattan, starting in Central Park through Times Square, along the West Side Highway, and around the southern tip of the island to the finish at the South Street Seaport.   The World Trade Center sits just before the 12-mile mark; I hope Team members and all runners alike take this in stride (no pun intended :-P) and reflect on the monumental landmark.  Keep in mind the mission of Hope For The Warriors® - to ensure that the sacrifices of wounded and fallen warriors and their families are never forgotten nor their needs unmet – and specific to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The dependable spring weather and quick, entertaining course make this race an extremely popular kick-off to the running season – both for the running community in general and for Team Hope For The Warriors®!  Here’s who we will see in NYC on March 18:

Tim Arkell	Katherine Decker	James Lassner	Elizabeth Smith
Becky Banyasz	Cheryl Donnelly	Mara Lassner	Dennis Song
Kendall Bowman	Sean Donnelly	Christine Parr	Lucy Taylor
Richard Bryant	Michelle Fitzgerald	Scott Peterson	Khela Vazquez
Michael Burguieres	Tracy Henry	Paula Pou
Jose Chariez	Joe Jacovina	Colleen Schlachter
Will DeChamps	Kurt Kaehler	Henry Schilling

 

Looking forward to hearing about it!! And, of course, some great pics :)