Is there an extinct race you wish were still around?

Creek-Monee Pow-wow

Tipp wrote:

Creek-Monee Pow-wow

Or Crete-Monee? I can't remember.

Crete Monee a great Illinois cross country event.

beantownbomber wrote:

Freedom Trail in Boston

Freedom Trail and the Milk Run.

Did Alison Roe have one of the most amazing strides in all of running or what?

Alison Roe is definitely Hotness HOF material.

I miss the old XC nationals (before they split). Two weeks after NCAA's pros, college, club... All lined up. Top 6 went to worlds.

I remember Blue Lake Park in Portland. 400-500+ on a start line that was 200-300 meters long. It was awesome.

Then winter nationals came. Raced 60-ish runners. Fun fact WeJo & RoJo were in that race in Vancover.

Thanks for pointing out the difference between a race and a species. Meanwhile, this question makes me realize what a waste the NYRR has made of the good local races it used to put on. I was thinking in particular of the Snowflake 4 miler, usually the third Saturday in February, where you\'d get good local and regional runners and winning times, (at least in the late 70\'s/early 80\'s) of 18:xx not uncommon.

Their online database only goes back to 1986, but as an excellent example of the caliber of race they held, I happened to pull up the 1987 MAC (Metropolitan Athletic Congress) 30k championship from Dec. 1987- yeah that\'s right a 30K(!) imagine such a long race! And anyway, looking at the results, we have Dan Schlesinger for the win in 1:38:25 (5:17 pace) and a couple of celebrities: future author/2:21 marathoner Sebastian Junger in 3rd at 1:42:34, and down in 10th place, Bart Yasso running an even 6:00 pace.

Fun times.

http://web2.nyrrc.org/cgi-bin/htmlos.cgi/33450.1.340426480417907755

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beantownbomber wrote:

Freedom Trail in Boston

Milk Run too

I second the Milk Run!

The where the hell is Truckee 30 km/18.6 mile run.

A good thread.

There was a unique 30k that was held in Florida, near Daytona Beach. The Paul De Bruyn 30k, which followed a road along the landward side of a barrier island, thru oak canopies and past tidal marshes, a very scenic route, but also, flat and fast. De Bruyn was a guy that (in 1932) won the Boston Marathon. The final mile of the race followed a sand road thru a forest and finished at the ruins of a 19th Century sugar plantation that had burned during Florida's Indian Wars. Today, there is a marathon, the Tomoka Marathon, that follows parts of the course.

Then also, the original Daytona Easter Beach Run, a 4-mile, one-way romp thru the effluvia of Spring Break. This was another famous Fla race...In the 1970's runners like Frank Shorter, Dick Batchelor, and Barry Brown won this event.

I liked the one and only Naples on the Gulf masters meet that I participated in. It was 1997 and I think that was the last meet they had. Fond memories of going there with my friend Rusty who hadn't high jumped since college. Rusty won the high jump! He did it having ripped the medial head of his lead leg gastroc off the bone several years before and never had it surgically repaired.

I95 Moose Run - Danbury, CT

Rockville 8k. I was going to start a thread at some point asking what happened this year. It morphed into the Suds and Soles 5k( I mean I know what happened lol the name says it all) but curious why? Did the city cut the course down or something. It didnt take up that much of the town and only one lane on 355 for what an hour?

Main DC/MD area summer gathering race for local good people now gone I saw the 5k had like 2 people under 17 or something blech. Also a great past fake name road race. Quenton Cassidy and Hugh Jass were past luminaries I recall among many others.

Sunset in the Park in Huntington Beach, CA. It used to have a 2.8 and 4.8 mile race. You could run either one or both. Now it's just a normal 3 mile race ran over, I believe, the same course for the OC high school championships.

Opening the video with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers was a nice touch.

There are some great Illinois races on your list Another classic Illinois race was the Cross Country Challenge in Gilberts. It started on a one-lane road before you crossed a marsh and charged up the first of many hills. The course changed from year to year, but you could always count on coming back to the finish cold, wet, and muddy. The top-3 men and women won shoes, so the good runners from the city would show up, as would the high-school and college kids. Anyway, the race was cancelled one year because of construction on the tollway and then the following year because the farm where the pre- and postrace activities were held was in bank receivership

I didn't know it the XC challenge ended. I ran it once in 2009 I believe. A foot of snow on the ground, and all the puddles were frozen, at least until the runners came through. Then the ice turned to shards that cut your legs. I remember running through the first field watching other runners go down, tripping on the plowed corn rows they couldn't see under the snow. And the pack of horses that ran through the race...

I think I just got under 50' for that 8k course.

Western Hemisphere Marathon

The ancient Rus, Persians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Caucasiods, Syrians, Greeks, Romans, etc. have long been totally extinct due to primitive Barbarians, Asians and Mongols invaders.