Date: July 14th, 2018, 8:00 am
Place: Central Park, New York, NY
Weather: 71 F, 61% humidity
Finishers: 4, 833 total (2, 287 men / 2, 546)

The Retro Run celebrates NYRR’s 60th anniversary. To help celebrate this anniversary, folks typically dress up in their funkiest outfits from the past 60 years. Basically folks were wearing short shorts, knee-high tube socks, and afro wigs.

I pretty much signed up for this race to begin acquiring my 9+1 credits for guaranteed entry into the 2019 TCS NYC marathon. *I’m really behind, because I only have completed two races and it’s July.* This was my first time running this race, but I have registered for it at least 3 or 4 times. In the past, I guess that I was either too drunk or hungover to wake up for this Saturday race.

The course was was not too aggressive, aside from the few rolling hills on the west side. One thing about running this race at a slower pace, compared to my normal race pace, I had the change to ‘enjoy’ the race. Since this is a “retro” race, a lot of folks were dressed in 70’s and 80’s wear.